Posted on 10/06/2014 3:58:38 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
In the case presented by advocates of Darwinian evolution, vestigial organs are a star in the firmament, frequently and gloatingly pointed to. Darwin himself cited them as such in The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, referring to body parts like the human appendix that, he believed, no longer serve a function:
On the view of each organism with all its separate parts having been specially created, how utterly inexplicable is it that organs bearing the plain stamp of inutility... should so frequently occur.
Of course the appendix is a great example of an organ once thought to be without utility that now turns out to serve a vital role.
(Excerpt) Read more at evolutionnews.org ...
Wow, really....you mean hips are vital to sex?
Gee, who knew????? /s
Meh. That vestigial organs can serve purposes beyond their ancestral function is nothing new. There seems to be a cottage industry of creation “scientists” who mine scientific research for straw men to use against evolution. It is usually something laughably silly like this article, meant to preach to the converted. What I am not seeing is alot of peer reviewed scientific data. These people attack other peoples research instead of doing their own, its all propaganda without any actual scientific work. The guy who wrote this silliness clearly never ran a PCR or Western Blot. I respect impartially collected, peer reviewed, scientific date, not blog posts.
God created diverse life on earth through the process of evolution. A supreme being has no need to create 10,000 species of cockroach one by one, creating a universe with evolution is a much more elegant solution.
Whale hips? I thought they were talking about Kim Kardashian, “Hitlary” Clinton or, Mooooooooooooochelle herself. Perish the thought!
Could you please show us the progressive signs of evolution?
I don’t know if you could call it evolution, but humans have certainly changed over time.
When I was in Germany, I toured a lot of castles. Almost all of them had an “armory” full of weapons and armor. What I noticed as I walked around those castles was:
- I had to stoop through most inner doors (not the grand entryways) and I’m 6’2”.
- The weapons and suits of armor (designed for their warriors, their bad-asses) would best fit a early teenager today.
So, maybe it’s due to improved diet, medicine or whatever - we have definitely changed from once average Germans. I’m not saying we changed from one species to another different species, but is it fair to say we have “evolved” (in some sense of the word) within our species? And I also believe we evolve/adapt because our creator knitted that ability into the very fabric of our design.
“I don’t know if you could call it evolution ...”
That is not evolution in any sense of the word, as understood by anyone on any side of the debate over evolution. Vietnamese immigrants to the U.S. see their children towering over them due to changed nutrition and medical care in their formative years. American colonists were taller than their British cousins after only a generation because of more and better food. They did not evolve in one generation. Americans have become far heavier in just the last 35 years, and that is not evolution.
Check out this group photo of one soldier each from the allied countries in the Boxer Rebellion (around 1900).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion#mediaviewer/File:Troops_of_the_Eight_nations_alliance_1900.jpg
They are in height order: Britain, United States, Australia,[72] British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan. The nutrition explanation is pretty clear.
These people attack other peoples research instead of doing their own,
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Doing your own research and having it pass peer review is hard work. While the evolutionary model doesn’t answer all questions, it answers far more than any other model.
“Could you please show us the progressive signs of evolution?”
Not sure what you mean by progressive signs of evolution, but here you go. 4,290,000 evolutionary research papers to answer all those hard questions.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=evolution&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C38&as_sdtp=
Indeed, getting a scientific paper published in hard. Writing a blog post is way easier.
I would say believers in God should not be dismissive of the concept of evolution it total.
We are not static being else we would be the same fallen man forever with no hope...
God uses the concept of evolution. .
What was the flood but act of selection ..
Not natural selection but still the same effect..
What was Sodom and Gomorrah but an act of selection.
So you can call it Natural Selection
Or an Act of God Selection
But the effect is the same
Some die off and the survivors go on and multiply ...
The best the "evolution" dramatists can ever show is what the creationists already agree with them in, which is ADAPTATION. There has never been an instance of, say, a bacillus from a coccus, eh? or a Ferrari from a hay wagon without an entropy-laden forcing of intelligence upon matter.
There have been millions of examples of bacteria developing new traits (antibiotic resistance) or losing traits (no longer able to live on some sugar) in a lab or in a sick patient. All of this is adaptation as well as evolution. Just like God designed it.
No experiment to prove Darwinian evolution sans intelligent design has ever worked. No experimentation of creation without intelligent design can ever work. What's your point?
If by Intelligent Design you mean 13.8 billion years of God’s patient work then I have no problem with that.
I think another 100 million years was added last week to accommodate something or other that didn’t work with ToE. So, it’s probably 13.9 billion years by now, unless I’ve missed another one.
The actual estimate is 13.82 billion years now. Do you have a better one? Nonetheless, God is extremely patient.
What’s a few tens of millions of years here or there? You’ll be needing them again soon enough. Might as well round up.
The God of the Bible, of Abraham and Isaac, did not use the death of his creatures to create new ones. Death came into the world by sin.
Other than that, you’ve got a point. God is patient and slow to anger.
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