To: Doctor Stochastic
Theory means an explanation of observed regularities. It does not mean speculation (except when used by lawyers.)But a theory is only true while there is no evidence against it. When such evidence is found the theory has been falsified and gets thrown into the garbabe bin of history.
This has happened to evolution numerous times and continues to happen today. All the greatest discoveries in biology have served to disprove evolution. Mendel genetics made the transmission of new traits almost impossible, DNA made them completely impossible, the interrelatedness of DNA shows it to be utterly and irretrievably impossible. The only thing evolutionists have to counteract this is a few scattered bones (which after 150 years of digging are still far from convincing) but without showing scientifically the creation of new traits, their theory must be considered scientifically false.
To: gore3000
All the greatest discoveries in biology have served to disprove evolution. Mendel genetics made the transmission of new traits almost impossible, DNA made them completely impossible, the interrelatedness of DNA shows it to be utterly and irretrievably impossible.
Let's try that again, shall we? You need to give up those rubber crutches, you are going to just fall RIGHT over.
From this essay, it is for a debate. http://www.nmsr.org/essay3a.htm
Charles Darwin did not know of Mendel's discoveries on genetics, nor did he know of the actual nature of the genetic material - the spiral coils of deoxyribose-nucleic acid, DNA. There has been a huge explosion of knowledge on genetics and biochemistry in the past century, but this explosion has not produced one finding that contradicts the basic concepts of evolution. In fact, these discoveries have shed incredible light on how evolution actually occurs, right down to the atomic level. MOLECULAR COMPARISONS In recent decades, the bio-molecules (proteins and DNA) of many species have been studied and compared. Some anti-evolution writers, including Denton(1) and Kenyon(2), claim these comparisons "disprove" evolution. Using data that show the percentage of protein sequence differences between the cytochrome C of bacteria and other forms of modern life, they find it surprising that the percentages are all about the same. But this is exactly what evolution predicts! Landau(3) shows Denton's error is the result of misunderstanding evolution as linear rather than branching, and of failing to recognize that protein evolution doesn't stop once a new species has evolved. When comparing sequences of bacteria and other modern creatures, the common ancestor is so remote (billions of years ago) that the differences average out to 65%. But when recently evolved life forms are compared with each other, the percentage differences are much smaller . Horse and pigeon cytochrome differ by 11%, though both differ from bacteria by 64%. By stressing only parts of the full picture, anti-evolutionists distort the truth. Bio-molecules provide a method of testing evolutionary hypotheses, and so far evolution has passed these tests with flying colors. In recent experiments on rapidly evolving viruses(4,5), scientists were able to deduce exact family histories (independently known) using only molecular methods!
Now then, Mendel genetics disproved what? and DNA, made what almost impossible.
You really are delusional.
Then we can go here as well.
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/rkr/Biology101/lectures/EvolutionMechanisms.html
In the early 1900's Mendel's work was rediscovered by a number of researchers, who, at first, tried to use genetics to disprove Darwin's theory of gradual evolution through slow selection of beneficial characteristics. The "Mendel" group promoted the idea that changes would occur rapidly via mutations, and that natural selection had no role in changes that occurred in populations through time. It took many years to bring together genetics, population biology and natural selection as means of evolution. The first real "breakthrough" came from the collaboration of a mathematician and a doctor in 1908, but as is common, took a while to gain acceptance.
They tries and they FAILED, because DNA and Mendel Genetics ACTUALLY HELPED PROVE the Theory of evolution.
Get a grip Blueman, your rubber crutch is bent in a 180 and you are on the ground.
Care to try again?
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