Posted on 04/17/2009 7:59:08 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Excellent point, Metmom. Besides, Genesis tells us that God created the entire Universe and everything in it...that covers DNA and microscopic organisms!
I know everything.
In the wild, maybe. But man has been TRYING to get those pesky fruit flies to change and for all man's deliberate efforts to manipulate fruit fly genetics, it hasn't happened except to get some deformed fruit flies.
Bacteria sure seem to mutate faster than 80 years.
Besides, the disingenuous argument argument you presented, 80 years worth of fruit flies produces far more generations than 80 years of human evolution.
I obviously don't expect the Bible to use those exact terms, but the Bible is great with metaphors.
I'm sure if a supreme being dictated the concepts to an earthly messenger, they could have easily come up with a Bronze Age explanation, much like it's descriptions of human beings in the womb.
It must be nice. What are the Texas lottery numbers for this week going to be?
Society in general has come to agree with the theory of evolution and the science underlying it, which is why society has deemed it necessary to be taught in our public schools in lieu of religious based beliefs. labeling it faith-based is not doing your point of view any good whatsoever, IMO.
Our younger generations are hesitant to support Republicans or conservatives in general as they are not keen upon being forced to subscribe to religious beliefs. Remove that stigma from the stereotype the left has successfully pigeonholed the right into and you will see conservatism once again looked upon favorably, IMO.
Nature is obviously much better at it.
Still takes faith.
Fools.
Creation science is based on faith in the historical account of God’s creation in the Bible. As such, creation scientists expect to find physical evidence of that history, and that is precisely what they are finding in every scientific discipline, from archeology to cosmology, from geology to biology...you name it, creation science comes out on top every time.
Well, you know what they say.
80 year — impossible
80 million years — fact
Just keep adding zeros. It’s the scientific method.
It’s in the Bible Code somewhere, I’m sure!
Because the technology to do this wasn't previously available.
“Notably, most of the candidate transcripts identified were unexpected based on previous mutational analyses of the traits.”2 Thus, most of the genetic organization and activity they observed was not predicted to be there by the evolution-through-mutation story!
They were not observed using the old technology or organized according to the new model.
When the new genomics models appear, poor Brian is going to have to keep re-writing his argument.
I know, the Evos will have to bury their heads in the sand even deeper to avoid the obvious design implications of systems genetics!
Here’s an interesting question: What evidence would falsify your creation “science”?
uh.. No bodie’s perfect.
That's one heck of a straw man you've built there. How are you planning to knock it down?
You should really go out into the wilderness necked for a week and give yourself a lesson on how flawed we really are. Not many of us can survive on only what the Lord has given us so the question is have we evolved or devolved?
"Okay, write this down. Fourteen billion years ago, I created this singularity. At first the universe was filled homogeneously and isotropically with an incredibly high energy density, huge temperatures and pressures, and was very rapidly expanding and cooling. Approximately 10^−37 seconds into the expansion, a phase transition caused a cosmic inflation, during which the universe grew exponentially. After inflation stopped, the universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma, as well as all other elementary particles. Temperatures were so high that the random motions of particles were at relativistic speeds, and particle-antiparticle pairs of all kinds were being continuously created and destroyed in collisions. At some point an unknown reaction called baryogenesis violated the conservation of baryon number, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and anti-leptons—of the order of 1 part in 30 million. This resulted in the predominance of matter over antimatter in the present universe. The universe continued to grow in size and fall in temperature, hence the typical energy of each particle was decreasing. Symmetry breaking phase transitions put the fundamental forces of physics and the parameters of elementary particles into their present form..."
"Uh, Lord, I'm running out of parchment here."
"Oh, okay. Just put down that I said 'Let there be light.'"
I hear this a lot. I'd like to see some support for the idea that anyone was ever trying to get the fruit flies to change into something else.
We can make hypotheses based on evidence, even for things we can't observe directly. Faith is not part of it.
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