Posted on 04/19/2006 3:57:51 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
I didn't see the post this refers to, but even if you caught someone expressing the issue poorly, it is hardly worth commenting on. Common descent is as well established as heliocentrism. There is no alternative hypothesis except poofism. Common descent is accepted by most ID advocates. Behe and Denton accept it as a fact.
This thread is a useful example of how they plan to work the "knuckledragger Christian" spin, and ought to be part of a Soros archive.
That wasn't your original claim. Your original claim was "The conclusion of common descent is built into the bare assumption that the lack of the L-gulano-g-lactone oxidase gene is a "defect", or "nonfunctional" version of a gene that was purportedly functional at some point in human history".
The original function of L-GLO isn't purported, and it isn't an assumption. Try to muster just a smidgen of intellectual honesty.
Has anyone else noticed the tendency of CRIDers to be "puntuationally challenged"? Not all of them, certainly, but I wonder if the Ebonic-like approach to science ("science is whatever I think it be") is related to this phenomenon?
This reads all wrong on this side of the Atlantic: I'm thinking that "poof" (short for "poofter") doesn't have the same slang meaning over there!
Science may be of limited use in ascertaining what occured in the past. It (i.e., scientists) certainly does not have ultimate jurisdiction in defining history; God does.
8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Cordially,
By your argument, that name merely leaps to an unsupported conclusion. That the "silver screen" is not actually made of silver is not at issue.
My contention is that a film or videotape (call it what you will) constitutes a satisfactory demonstration of motion. Similarly, I contend that the fossil record constitutes a satisfactory demonstration of common descent.
Poof is a word associated with magic. Poofter is a word known to me, but not used by Americans.
In the long run, it is science and not religion that decides what is read literally and what is not. Prior to Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, the sun literally stopped for Joshua. Nothing about the Biblical text has changed, but it is impossible for an educated person to read this literally.
It took several hundred years to reach this state. It may take a couple hundred more for Darwin, but it will happen.
It seems to me the left and the education lobby are trying to pin the abysmal state of science education in the U.S. on the crevos, when in actuality the evo/crevo debate is a very, very small part of that picture. For example, the evo/crevo feud has nothing to do with the attempt to introduce a dumbed down high school physics curriculum in many districts.
It is if you are an American who used to watch "Young Ones"!
It's tortuous all the way down.
Secretary: Fairy! Poof's not good enough for Algy, is it. He's got to be a bleedin' fairy. Mincing old RAF queen. (sits at the desk)
Biggles: (into the intercom) Algy, I have to see you.
Algy: Right ho. (he enters) What ho everyone.
Biggles: Are you gay?
Algy: I should bally well say so, old fruit.
Biggles: Ugh! (he shoots him) Dear King Haakon ... oh ... (takes the antlers off) Dear King Haakon. (the secretary types) Just a line to thank you for the eels. Mary thought they were really scrummy, comma, so did I full stop. I've just heard that Algy was a poof, exclamation mark. What would Captain W. E. Johns have said, question mark. Sorry to mench, but if you've finished with the lawn-edger could you pop it in the post. Love Biggles, Algy deceased and Ginger. Ginger! (puts the antlers on)
Secretary: What?
Biggles: Rhyming slang - ginger beer.
Secretary: Oh.
Biggles: (into the intercom) Ginger.
Ginger: Hello, sweetie.
Biggles: I have to see you.
(The door opens, Ginger enters as a terrible poof in camp flying gear, sequins, eye make-up, silver stars on his cheeks.)
Ginger: Yes, Biggles?
Biggles: Are you a poof
Ginger: (camp outrage) I should say not.
Biggles: Thank God for that. Good lad. (Ginger exits) Stout fellow, salt of the earth, backbone of England. Funny, he looks like a poof.
Bookmarked as a solid example of the purposeful dumbing down by the illiterati.
Or in your face....
How do you know this? Were you there at the time? It is an assumption based on the observation of DNA sequences that resemble genes but appear (at present) to be nonfunctional, and which are assumed to be the byproduct of random and useless but not fatal mutations, and which is built entirely on the bare assumption of complete knowledge of the organism and its history, something we do not have because we were not there and could not observe it.
Cordially,
And anyway, I'm about to eat my supper, so pleeeaaaassseeee!
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