[latina4dubya]

i saw several of these billboards as i drove up Interstate 5 to Oregon last week... i like them...

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Oh boy, another debate about evolution philosophy!

[ASA Vet]

Another popcorn and purging thread?

[gcruse]

“”It’s kind of funny because the theory of evolution is based on chance mutations and natural selection,” she said. As a result, “the process can go either way.”’

Yes it can, since natural selection is environment driven. It’s nice to see fundies accept the theory of evolution.

LOL

[cdcdawg]

“we’d be completely happy if they’d just allow a critical evaluation of evolution.”

It is at this point that so many strident evolutionists start sounding like their own caricature of their opposition. Quite ironic, really. I admit that I don’t have the science background to follow a lot of it, but the Darwinists get smacked around rhetorically and logically. I haven’t seen one yet win the argument against an I.D. proponent. If there is video or a transcript out there, I would love to see it. They usually move quickly to ad hominem and other losing pursuits. The entire issue is fascinating from a purely forensic standpoint.

[alloysteel]

Backwards evolution, or devolution, would seem to be about as likely as “forward” evolution, if everything were up to chance encounters and “natural selection”.

Using that logic, the human race could be receding to a more primitive form, about as fast as they are advancing to a higher level.

Result, no net gain.

Ever.

[Coyoteman]

"we'd be completely happy if they'd just allow a critical evaluation of evolution."

No problem. Join right in. But this is where the "critical evaluation of evolution" is taking place, not the high schools:

American Journal of Human Biology
American Journal of Human Genetics
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
The Anatomical Record Part A
Annals of Human Biology
Annals of Human Genetics
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
Anthropological Science
Anthropologie
L' Anthropologie
Archaeometry
Behavior Genetics
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Biological Psychology
Biology and Philosophy
BMC Evolutionary Biology
Current Anthropology
Current Biology
Economics and Human Biology
Ethnic and Racial Studies
European Journal of Human Genetics
Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolutionary Anthropology
Forensic Science International
Gene
Genetical Research
Genetics
Genome Research
Heredity
Homo
Human Biology
Human Heredity
Human Genetics
Human Genomics
Human Molecular Genetics
Human Mutation
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Biosocial Science
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal of Human Evolution
Journal of Human Genetics
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Nature
Nature Genetics
Nature Reviews Genetics
PLoS Biology
PLoS Genetics
Proceedings of The Royal Society: Biological Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Russian Journal of Genetics
Science
Trends in Genetics

[Ender Wiggin]

“where are all the living transitional forms that are evolving into other forms?”

Well, look at the Orchard Oriole and Baltimore Oriole for one example.

And biologists are constantly finding new species- unlikely that they were there ever since the Flood and no biologist noticed- perhaps they are truly new?

I’ll look for the billboards, they sound cool.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"If you want to have the standard of empirical evidence only, then evolution doesn't make the grade," Haberle said.

Another ignoramus pretending to be an expert.

The billboards sound like fun though.

[jeddavis]

Evolution is junk/demokkkrat science, with or without monkeys.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Don’t be too quick to laugh at the man-to-monkey concept. The human population is currently undergoing a good deal of DEvolution which is being driven by socialism == policies of taking from the competent to give to the incompetent, resulting in rising birth rates among the incompetent and dropping birth rates among the competent.

[GovernmentShrinker]

aside from simple speciation, where are all the living transitional forms that are evolving into other forms?"

Visit the public housing projects of any large city, or the trailer parks of any meth-infested rural area, and you'll see plenty of "transitional forms" who are well on their way back to apehood. Visit a cutting-edge biotech firm, top performing private equity firm, or top-performing marketing technology firm (think Google, eBay), and you'll see plenty of "transitional forms" who are well on their way to leaving the mainstream of the current human population hopelessly behind them. Needless to say, these two groups stopped interbreeding long ago, and may well cease to be able biologically able to do so in due course.

[RightWhale]

It might be interesting to see billboards challenging Guth’s inflation hypothesis.

[Tall_Texan]

I would have liked the billboard better if the man on the far left was AlGore.

[Doc Savage]

Evolution is based solely on randomness. At a molecular and DNA level the theory fails. The vast majority of mutations (insertions, tranpositions, deletions) are lethal.
The molecular cascade of A>B>C>D>E>F>G>H>I>J>K etc., to produce a particular pigment protein is impossible via random mutations. Nice try though!

[philetus]

Proof of backwards evolution is evident when you see men get elected to political office and turn into worms, slugs, and bloodsuckers.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

Intelligent Design
is Creationism
Don’t be fooled
By a stupid sign
Burma Shave.