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Posted on 01/17/2017 11:06:44 AM PST by fishtank
Fast Evolution Confirms Creationist Theory
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. *
A tenet of creationist theory maintains that creatures are designed for robust speciation. Although they cannot change into fundamentally different kinds, creatures can rapidly express a wide diversity of traits to fit changing environments. "Fast evolution affects everyone, everywhere" is one headline1 from the theme of the Royal Society's life science journal in January, 2017.2 But its content further bolsters creationist theory.
The pace of change within organisms is a keen topic of interest. One reason many people doubt evolution is that no one has ever seen one kind of creature change into another. Plant and animal breeders have never done it in thousands of years of concerted effort. Even experiments intended to force evolution along by inducing radical genetic mutations in breeding pairs result in crippled, but not basically transformed, prodigy. Remarkably, both creationists and evolutionists are content with this fact.
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Why would any benevolent creator create Cancer?
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One need only read this paragraph to know the author is a hack with no scientific knowledge or a shill using a modicum to purposefully misinterpret data once again:
“Findings of rapid trait expression by organisms tend to confirm creationist theory that emphasizes active, problem-solving organisms. As one evolutionist notes, rapid change is hard to reconcile with any theory that emphasizes an active environment fractioning out the genetic material of passive organisms by a mechanism which “requires radical amounts of natural selection (the Darwinian mechanism), mutations and genetic drift to accomplish such changes.”8 The rapid changes documented in the Royal Society paper do not fit with the stagnant notion of the slow accumulation of random genetic mutations struggling to survive.
These rapid changes fit much better with contemporary research that reveals how organisms possess elaborate built-in systems composed of sensors, cellular algorithms, and output responses that enable them to continuously track environmental changes—man-made or otherwise—so they can quickly fit and fill new niches. Up-to-date research shows that they may employ dozens of mechanisms including epigenetic, hybridization, cryptic variation, behavioral changes, unreduced gametes, directed crossover, regulated micro-RNAs or RNA splicing, horizontal gene transfer, and even modulation of an organism’s microbiota. None of these mechanisms require a struggle for life and death! Creationists have been reporting on these mechanisms which enable organisms to self-adjust to external conditions in a single generation—and often across multiple ones—for many years.”
In the VERY BEGINING 200 years ago that may been the overall basis of TToE. For many years TToE has placed stochastic processes in the forefront of it mechanism. This is exactly what is being described.
icr is the WND of science. Its logo should be Bat Boy.
Really a waste of electrons to produce it. much less use it as a reference.
>>Why would any benevolent creator create Cancer?
Because every man dies. Cancer is just flawed cells. So is Type 1 diabetes or a lot of other diseases.
The evolutionists shot themselves in the foot when they divided species distinctly. Evolution requires a smooth transition and there is zero evidence of that, so far anyway.
>> Its logo should be Bat Boy.
Bat Boy is a celebration of evolution. He is the proof that one species can breed another.
Well the creator created you with an immortal soul. That's pretty cool.
Actions have consequences. Adam and Eve chose poorly. We would do the same.
>>The evolutionists shot themselves in the foot when they divided species distinctly. Evolution requires a smooth transition and there is zero evidence of that, so far anyway.
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Well, since species taxonomy doesn’t work that way there really was no shooting in the foot.
>>Bat Boy is a celebration of evolution. He is the proof that one species can breed another.<<
I stand corrected. The fact that michael and obozo had progeny is also proof of cross-species breeding.
Your question is a common and quite normal question- one wonders how a loving God could sit by and watch people suffer- But IF we are to look at the question logically and completely objectively, we can’t go into the question with out minds made up that God can not exist because evil and pain exist- Doing so is biased- no objective, and reveals a mind that is set in it’s own conclusions and won’t accept any explanations that contradict that preconceived conclusion
Concider the following site (Christianthinktank dot com)
“The standard form of the PoE (PROBLEM OF eVIL)(a non-technical statement) looks like this:
a. God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, and therefore should have the will and the ability to eliminate evil and/or suffering.
b. Such a god would be obligated by His/Her/Its/Their ethics to eliminate evil and suffering (i.e. there is no adequate reason for it to be allowed to eventuate/continue);
c. Evil and suffering ostensibly occur.
Therefore, the god described in proposition A does not, in fact, exist.”
http://www.christianthinktank.com/gr5part1.html
He then goes on to analyze why such arguments fall apart- in a deep but logical manner- and presents a case that shows there can indeed exist evil and suffering and a loving God
It basically comes down to two factors- one- WE invited this upon ourselves- We had a perfect life, but threw it in God’s face and decided we wanted to die- God warned us- We chose a life of death
Two- We tend to only focus in on ‘the bad’ aspect of suffering, and we often overlook that much good comes out of suffering very often (not always- but often) We forget that God uses everything, in a sovereign and purposeful manner- ways we don’t see- The suffering situation has far far reaching ramifications that only an all knowing God can see- but we as finite beings can see soem ramifications/results- ie the sick person obeys God DESPITE the pain and suffering, becoming an inspiration to others who are healthy- their testimony helps others who suffer have greater faith, a young person seeing someone suffer may decide to take a different road in life later in life in order to try to be a blessing to others etc etc etc- on and on it goes-
While suffering is indeed bad, it has a way of revealing the true character of a person- because it is they who CHOOSE how they are going to respond to it- either out of love and acceptance, or bitterness and rejection of God, but the choice is fully the person’s-
That site- has reams of articles examining the problem of pain and evil- some of it is quite deep- but some is readable enough- and he has a very down to earth unvarnished way of getting to the root of questions in ways we didn’t even realize we were asking- because we don’t see as deeply as he does-
It’s well worth soem time spent on there if you really wish to know why a loving God would allow evil
You can take a human being and turn his descendants into a Democrat in one generation, and a Morlock in three. If that isn’t rapid speciation, I don’t know what is.
your question: “Why would any benevolent creator create Cancer?”
answer: God didn’t. Man in his pride demanded that Cancer (interesting that you cap’d that) exist. God gifted man with freewill. God doesn’t take back His gifts.
The aim, was about 41” higher.
Dr., let me give you some advice, you ought to be the head of some medical device start-up rather than publishing at ICR.
ON, NTSA
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