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Evolution Disclaimer Supported
The Advocate (Baton Rouge) ^ | 12/11/02 | WILL SENTELL

Posted on 12/11/2002 6:28:08 AM PST by A2J

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To: Gargantua
1 to the 40th power?

Is this larger or smaller than Gore3000's 1 to the 720th power?
1,781 posted on 12/31/2002 3:31:30 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic; Godel
1 to the 40th power?

Is this larger or smaller than Gore3000's 1 to the 720th power?

I fully expect that shortly G3k and "Gargantua" will team up to promote the "Power of Unity Continuum Hypothesis" in which they will opine as to whether or not there are any intermediate values for "n" in N such that:

140 < 1n < 1720

1,782 posted on 12/31/2002 4:05:58 PM PST by longshadow
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To: Condorman
"You said the designer theory is logical. What is that logic?

Logic is for constructing proofs, which give us reliable confirmation of the truth of the proven proposition. I thought you were not asking me for proof. Why ask so many times for that which I cannot give? You're the one playing games, pal. You and your friends haven proven very good at it.

But please point out to me what is illogical in assuming that - for one small example - GRAVITY has a design and purpose? You've avoided this one small example thus far. More games?

1,783 posted on 12/31/2002 4:19:01 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: fissionproducts
Intelligent Design and Creation are clearly not theories. Ask any practicing scientist.

In that case then neither is evolution because evolution has never been observed.

1,784 posted on 12/31/2002 4:19:14 PM PST by gore3000
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To: Physicist
Leakey does not mean to say that at all, because the brain capacity of Homo erectus is completely off the low end of the bell curve

One of the big lies of paleontology is that brain size matters. This is such an obvious falsehood that it can be easily dismissed. First of all elephants did not go to the moon. Second of all, if brain size matters, then how come we need IQ tests to tell how smart people are, surely if that were so we should just be able to look at people's heads. Lastly and most importantly, a look at the DNA of men and chimps has shown that the difference in intelligence is not due to brain size but due to the expression of a certain gene in humans 5 times more than in chimps. If this were not enough, science has known for a long time that the folding of the brain in humans allows for more thought capacity and that the amount of folds is indicative of a higher species. Of course we do not have such information from fossils which is just one reason why fossils cannot prove descent and why paleontology is not science but fairy tales.

1,785 posted on 12/31/2002 4:27:24 PM PST by gore3000
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To: titanmike
The idea of having all the mass in the universe compressed to a point and then having it somehow or other bang its way out of that is ludicrous on the face of it ...

We've heard it all before, Ted. Didn't anyone ever tell you that you repeat youself a lot?

1,786 posted on 12/31/2002 4:32:50 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: VadeRetro
Let's see, a composite reconstruction (and it looks like the feet are imaginary and not part of the fossil, that's why they are a different color), a set of bones with no fins purportedly of a whale, a set of skulls most of which have not been classified, and a set of drawings. You call this nonsense proof of evolution?????????????

Here's real proof - from living things - that evolution did not occur:

Euglena, Hymenopimesis Wasp, Butterfly, Platypus, Bat, Fugu, Cambrian species

1,787 posted on 12/31/2002 4:36:20 PM PST by gore3000
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To: Fester Chugabrew
But please point out to me what is illogical in assuming that - for one small example - GRAVITY has a design and purpose?

I know of no evidence to support such an assumption. Do you?

1,788 posted on 12/31/2002 4:37:35 PM PST by Condorman
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To: VadeRetro
How Could an Eye Evolve?

It could not, and a reference from your buddy Don Lindsay, well known at home at dinnertime, proves absolutely nothing. What real science shows is that about a quarter of our brain is dedicted just to processing visual information. So no, the eye did not evolve.

1,789 posted on 12/31/2002 4:39:44 PM PST by gore3000
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To: Condorman
I know of no evidence to support such an assumption. Do you?

Yes. The purpose of gravity is so that we can tell young women from old ones when they have their clothes off. I don't know what else it's good for.

1,790 posted on 12/31/2002 4:39:45 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Spifford alert


1,791 posted on 12/31/2002 4:42:07 PM PST by js1138
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To: Condorman
he first life had to be able to reproduce itself, this is not possible without a fully formed cell.-me-

Back to the question I've been asking for 400 posts: Upon what evidence do you base this assumption?

Well you see when I was a kid I put a set of coins in sets of two. I put the heads facing the tails hoping that they would mate and I would have a fortune in a few years. Well, after 5 years I still had the same number of coins.

1,792 posted on 12/31/2002 4:42:57 PM PST by gore3000
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To: Mikey
If instead you spent that time studying the Bible, you’d have a shot at understanding.

I've spent far more time studying the Bible than the average Christian. The confirmation process of the Moravian Church, which I underwent, is far more demanding than most.

1,793 posted on 12/31/2002 4:44:40 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Logic is for constructing proofs, which give us reliable confirmation of the truth of the proven proposition. I thought you were not asking me for proof. Why ask so many times for that which I cannot give?

You are the one claiming that intelligent design is logical. All I'm asking for is evidence to support your position.

Hardly unreasonable.

1,794 posted on 12/31/2002 4:44:44 PM PST by Condorman
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To: VadeRetro
Have a few hundred in the vertebrate realm.

Just show me the fossils which show how reptiles changed their mode of reproduction from egg laying to live bearing. Show me the gradual DNA changes in the fossils which accomplished this miracle.

1,795 posted on 12/31/2002 4:46:01 PM PST by gore3000
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To: webber
I was just saying that Darwin renounced everything he believed in about evolution, that all. What's the problem?

The problem is that it's a lie.

1,796 posted on 12/31/2002 4:51:19 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: usastandsunited
You are confusing our inability as humans to comprehend something as a "null" concept.

No, we understand it just fine. It's a self-contradictory notion.

This might help. Please think your way through it. I've posted this a number of times to other threads:

The question, "what happened before Archduke Ferdinand was shot" is a well-formed question, as is, "what is south of Topeka, Kansas." The question, "what happened before the big bang" is an ill-formed question, as is, "what lies south of the south pole."

Imagine you are travelling south, down to the south pole. As you get closer to the pole, the east-west direction does a curious thing: it curls back upon itself in an ever-tightening circle, disappearing completely as you reach the point of the pole itself. At that place, the ground is as smoothly two-dimensional as anywhere else on Earth, but every possible direction points north, even directions that lie at right angles to each other.

Imagine that you can go backwards in time, back to the big bang. As you get closer to the big bang, space does a curious thing: the spatial dimensions curl back upon themselves in an ever-tightening circle, disappearing completely as you reach the singularity itself. At that event, spacetime is as smoothly four-dimensional as at any other event in history, but every possible direction points towards the future, even directions that lie at right angles to each other.

I stress that what I have laid before you is not an analogy, but two separate examples of the same phenomenon.

There may exist events that are external to the space and time dimensions of our universe, but none of them can be said to come before or after any events of our universe; they cannot be included in any causal framework such as history. Time itself is strictly internal to our universe. If we want to use words like "cause" and "before", we must needs keep our game pieces on the board.


1,797 posted on 12/31/2002 4:51:58 PM PST by Physicist
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To: gore3000
Well you see when I was a kid I put a set of coins in sets of two. I put the heads facing the tails hoping that they would mate and I would have a fortune in a few years. Well, after 5 years I still had the same number of coins.

Touching. Any chance of you addressing the question?

Or is 1372 more your speed?

1,798 posted on 12/31/2002 4:53:41 PM PST by Condorman
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To: Condorman
I am generally conversant with the basic tenets of the Theory, and as an avid reader, was greatly amused with Darwin's almost clever novel "The Origin of the Species."

But, inasmuch as the Theory itself propounds in direct contradiction of that which I know to be true, I haven't wasted much time on pursuing it. Here's what i can tell you, from a scholarly perspective.

Our common usage of the word "evolution" conveys the idea that living things in our world have come into being through unguided naturalistic processes starting from a primeval mass of subatomic particles and radiation, over approximately 20 billion years.

A more precise understanding of the above statement divides the phantasmagoric "atoms to people" transition into four realms:

1. Cosmology is the branch of astronomy which deals with the origin and formation of the general structure of the "known" [sic!] universe.

2. Abiogenesis refers to first life - the unbidden production of living organisms from otherwise inanimate matter.

3. Micro-evolution or speciation refers to populational and species change through time. There are many published examples of speciation, if by the development of a new "species" we describe the development of a new population of individuals which will not breed with the original population to produce fertile offspring. (Micro-evolution is a scientific fact which no one, including creationists, dispute.)

4. Macro-evolution or, as it is often called, general evolution refers to the progression to more complex forms of life. The mechanisms of macro-evolution, including whether or not micro-evolution over a long enough time leads to macro-evolution, can be regarded as a "research topic."

Pure bunk, for the most part.

1,799 posted on 12/31/2002 4:55:54 PM PST by Dynamo
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To: js1138
"Let's be just a tiny bit reasonable here."

As in suggesting what God should have listed as His "11th Commandment." You are one sick, irrational pup.

1,800 posted on 12/31/2002 4:59:36 PM PST by Dynamo
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