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To: WhiskeyX
The folks who worship Evolution has observed adaptation -- bacteria which remains bacteria, but which develops a resistance to antibiotics. An impressive genetic change, which we might label as natural selection. Still, it's merely adaptation.

The miracle which is required for Evolution, but which has not been seen, is the idea that Life began in the seas, then eventually came out on land, and then a land animal went back into the sea and eventually became a Blue Whale.

That's not the same as bacteria which remains bacteria, but which develops a resistance to antibiotics. It's many orders of magnitude more astounding.

I don't have enough faith to believe in it, and you are nowhere near close to proving that it happened.

I say it's a lot like Global Warming.

24 posted on 02/28/2015 1:34:37 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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“The folks who worship Evolution has observed adaptation — bacteria which remains bacteria, but which develops a resistance to antibiotics.”

That is a false statement based upon an incorrect understanding of the biological science relating to how bacteria and antibiotics function. The evolution of biological populations is based upon changes in the genomes of the individual biological organisms in the assorted populations. Any one genome in any one individual member of the population incorporates genetic coding instructions for adapting to its environment and perhaps altering copies of its own genome. Evolution is the result of the accumulation of changes in the genome. The evolutionary change/s between your own genome and the genomes of your children through sexual reproduction are typically small and too small to constitute a significant change in the genome and physical characteristics in comparison to the whole population. Extraordinary events which make significant changes in the genome between two generations or millions of generations is when you can witness enough accumulation of changes on the genome and the physical characteristics of an individual organism to be recognized as what is arbitrarily designated as another biological species, genus, family, and order.

Observation of a natural process in present time does not constitute the “worship” of an object in a theology, so your comparison of the recognition of a natural phenomenon to the worship of an object in a religion or theology is invalid and a false pejorative.

“An impressive genetic change, which we might label as natural selection. Still, it’s merely adaptation.”

Again, you statement makes false conclusions based upon confused and false understandings of the differences between “genetic change”, “adaptation”, and “natural selection”. Some forms of adaptation by a biological organism have nothing whatsoever to do with changes in the genome or evolution, while other forms of adaptation are based upon changes in the genome and evolutionary changes between generations of a population of biological organisms. So, basing your conclusions upon such a confusion of mistaken definitions relating to the adaptation of a population of biological organisms is certain to result in a false conclusion.

“The miracle which is required for Evolution, but which has not been seen, is the idea that Life began in the seas, then eventually came out on land, and then a land animal went back into the sea and eventually became a Blue Whale.”

That statement is simply an emotional appeal based upon a false representation of the definition of evolution and theory of evolution. Current evolutionary theory acknowledges ignorance of where the parent self-replicating genome originated, in outer space or on the Earth. as for the Blue Whale, see how Humans have adapted with evolutionary changes to develop the mental and physical faculties necessary to invent SCUBA technologies utilized for amphibious activities in the seas.

“That’s not the same as bacteria which remains bacteria, but which develops a resistance to antibiotics. It’s many orders of magnitude more astounding.”

Again, you are confusing the difference between the biochemical adaptation capabilities already provided for within a single genome expression, the adaptation capabilities resulting from the minor and ordinary changes between a single generation in the population, and the accumulated changes in the genome after very large number of generations and associated extraordinary changes in the genome. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics results from all types of adaptation, those that are inherent in a single genome and those which result from accumulated changes in a small or vastly larger number of generations of successive genomes.

“I don’t have enough faith to believe in it, and you are nowhere near close to proving that it happened.”

Faith has nothing to do with the “observation” of the evolutionary mechanism and evolutionary process of a biological organisms’ genome.

“I say it’s a lot like Global Warming.”

What you say is a false conclusion, because “Global Warming” is political science pretending to be science through the use of falsified date and pseudo-scientific studies.


27 posted on 02/28/2015 2:36:27 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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