Posted on 12/29/2011 1:01:09 PM PST by daletoons
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Beautiful argument.. cartoons trump language dialect and even culture..
If the third human on this planet didn’t come from two other ones..
THEN; you Must make up a bodacious Yarn to explain it..
Evolution’s been bugging me lately.
Been learning a lot about fertility. It’s a darned complicated process when everything is there and working. Beyond just the organs necessary, there are all the various fluids, timing, pathways. How the heck did all this evolve if it has to be there in order for procreation. It’s worse than a chicken and egg dilemma.
I mean, you can’t get a woman pregnant with your elbow or any other vestigial organ. So how were our predecessor species procreating until evolution invented the various sex organs and evolved them into complementary and functioning systems for reproduction?
Were the predecessors of mammals spontaneously splitting into two organisms to procreate while waiting for the sex organs to catch up?
Love the cartoon and love the name of the Millstone Swim and Dive Club !! Please keep it up!
Bttt
. . . here we go.
If this occurred as a single random mutation, then it was one heck of a miracle to have two fully functioning systems, with all the parts and processes, and that these would be complementary to each other.
If sexual reproduction evolved in incremental steps, then the "survival of the fittest" part of the theory would imply a competitive advantage at each step of the evolutionary process but I fail to see the competitive advantage of a half evolved sexual reproductive system. Even getting past this, it is still a miracle that two systems could incrementally evolve to functional maturity, (through random mutation mind you), and at the end be perfectly complementary.
Children conclude that the creepy guy in the van just wants to give you candy. Children's logic is not something we should be holding up as a guide. But there is an element of truth here: we think there's a God because mankind, operating like a child, decided that SOMEONE must have made this place. After all... it's a quick, neat answer and you don't have to think anymore after that.
And ever since then, any charismatic fellow who is articulate enough can convince people that this SOMEONE spoke to him and now y'all better listen up. Worked for Abraham, worked for Moses, worked for Jesus, worked for Mohammed, worked for Jim Jones, worked for that nut who started the Mormon church... all you need is a tall, intense, good-looking man who can talk him a good one, and you've got you another religion! All endorsed by the Someone Who Must Have Made It All, After All, Here It Is.
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“With all this evolutionary material, there’s got to be a pony in here somewhere!”
Minor quibble. He doesn’t need to be someone ‘who can talk him a good one’.
Just someone who can seamlessly switch back and forth between two teleprompters...
In addition to the elegance of the DESIGN of the myriad species and kinds of creatures, e.g., every living creature having the eyes, ears, etc. at the correct end of its body, etc; there being NO, NONE, ZIP, NADA fossil evidence for ANY trial-and-error examples, which evolution would have produced in hoardes in every species, such as birdlike creatures with either NO wings, or only ONE wing, or two wings but diSplaced and inoperable, etc. Such as all pertinent kinds being elegantly designed and streamlined in the optimum direction as birds, fish, etc. all were DESIGNED to be.
But in addition to all that; and I hasten to say I am not an authority on genitalia; but as a farm kid, I learned a few things which reinforce my certainty of God’s sense of humor by some of the ways He designed the genitalia of certain animals’ such as the CORKSCREW PENIS of swine...and the forked penis of raccoons. And obviously the female plumbing of each was DESIGNED to mate with that of the corresponding male, and would not function successfully otherwise.
Dja’ know what God thinks of guys like Hawking? HE THAT SITTETH IN THE HEAVENS SHALL LAUGH; HE SHALL HOLD THEM IN DERISION! And they shall have THEIR part in the lake of fire!
And throw in the gestation period, then need for critical timing for that gestation, a couple weeks either way and viability is threatened, not to mention that a full term pregnant female would be an EASY target for predators.....
Then there's the feeding the baby part. Lactation must be perfectly suited for the baby's arrival both in terms of quality for completely nourishing the baby until he can eat and timing so that the baby doesn't starve to death. That had to develop at the same time as the ability to reproduce, no less.
Not to mention that nine months is a LOOOOONNNNNGGGG time to be pregnant.
Fine. Then please address the observation found in post 10 by Teotwawki
It is a dilemma. If the first life was a single cell creature that reproduced by splitting, and all life evolved thereafter from that one spark, then somewhere along that unbroken chain life evolved from asexual to sexual reproduction.
If this occurred as a single random mutation, then it was one heck of a miracle to have two fully functioning systems, with all the parts and processes, and that these would be complementary to each other.
If sexual reproduction evolved in incremental steps, then the "survival of the fittest" part of the theory would imply a competitive advantage at each step of the evolutionary process but I fail to see the competitive advantage of a half evolved sexual reproductive system. Even getting past this, it is still a miracle that two systems could incrementally evolve to functional maturity, (through random mutation mind you), and at the end be perfectly complementary.
A simple “we don’t know yet” is enough for rational people. Who on earth comes up with SOME BIG INVISIBLE MAGIC CREATURE DID IT! LET’S FIGURE OUT WHAT IT WANTS! I mean, seriously?
You’ve proven that we’re all born worshippers. Only one person on your list is worthy of it.
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