Posted on 07/04/2004 5:19:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Professor Ernst Mayr, the scientist renowned as the father of modern biology, will celebrate his 100th birthday tomorrow by leading a scathing attack on creationism.
The evolutionary biologist, who is already acclaimed as one of the most prolific researchers of all time, has no intention of retiring and is shortly to publish new research that dismantles the fashionable creationist doctrine of “intelligent design”.
Although he has reluctantly cut his workload since a serious bout of pneumonia 18 months ago, Prof. Mayr has remained an active scientist at Harvard University throughout his 90s. He has written five books since his 90th birthday and is researching five academic papers. One of these, scheduled to appear later this year, will examine how “intelligent design” — the latest way in which creationists have sought to present a divine origin of the world — was thoroughly refuted by Charles Darwin a century and a half ago.
His work is motivated in part by a sense of exasperation at the re-emergence of creationism in the USA, which he compares unfavourably with the widespread acceptance of evolution that he encountered while growing up in early 20th-century Germany.
The states of Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Oklahoma currently omit the word “evolution” from their curriculums. The Alabama state board of education has voted to include disclaimers in textbooks describing evolution as a theory. In Georgia, the word “evolution” was banned from the science curriculum after the state’s schools superintendent described it as a “controversial buzzword”.
Fierce protest, including criticism from Jimmy Carter, the former President, reversed this.
Prof. Mayr, who will celebrate his 100th birthday at his holiday home in New Hampshire with his two daughters, five grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, was born on 5 July 1905 in Kempten, Germany. He took a PhD in zoology at the University of Berlin, before travelling to New Guinea in 1928 to study its diverse bird life. On his return in 1930 he emigrated to the USA. His most famous work, Systematics and the Origin of Species, was published in 1942 and is regarded still as a canonical work of biology.
It effectively founded the modern discipline by combining Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel’s genetics, showing how the two were compatible. Prof. Mayr redefined what scientists mean by a species, using interbreeding as a guide. If two varieties of duck or vole do not interbreed, they cannot be the same species.
Prof. Mayr has won all three of the awards sometimes termed the “triple crown” of biology — the Balzan Prize, the Crafoord Prize and the International Prize for Biology. Although he formally retired in 1975, he has been active as an Emeritus Professor ever since and has recently written extensively on the philosophy of biology.
"Look, the Lord is coming
with thousands of his holy ones.
15 He will bring the people of the world
to judgment.
He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things
they have done in rebellion
and of all the insults that godless sinners
have spoken against him."
Not necessarily. A closed system is one that has no energy exchange with something else. A Thermos bottle is an imperfect example. A living organism enclosed in a thermos bottle will eventually die. The Earth is not a closed system.
highly entropic placemarker
Jude 1:14-25
A living organism outside of a thermos bottle will eventually die. So what does your statement "prove".
A citation reference from On the Origin of Species would be nice.
(J.Carter FOUGHT to retain evolution teaching in public education.)
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i kept using "might" to illistrate to the ignorant that when i use "might" it means something.
i am a Creationist. i believe we were put on this Earth by a superior being called God. i think evolution is perfectly acceptable as far as our understanding is concerned to explain HOW God put us here.
i claim the word Creationist, and you go ballistic. that's where i figure you think science contradicts God.
"A living organism enclosed in a thermos bottle will eventually die."
please note however: dying does NOT= loss of energy. the dead feed other things which in turn die, and feed other things. this is a principle in fertilizers.
the Earth is a closed system because even though things die, things still live. it has life on it, and that life contributes to future life.
by your definition "something in a thermous dies," there is NO SUCH THING as a "closed system," because one of the qualifiers for living, is that it ends.
also, i must assume that anyone who has read all of my posts and professes evolution is true, and argues with me about it, must be refering to my other point, God is also true.
seeing as those are the two focal points of my entire being on this thread, if it isnt one (which you argue for) its the other.
I'm not quite sure what that means. From what I've seen, the ones at major institutions like ICR are only too happy to engage the debate with those on the opposite side.
Christian brother's and sisters, this passage admonishes us to take the time and effort to try pulling those wavering souls from the fire of judgment, while taking care to not be contaminated by their sins. Namely dishonoring God by denying His word, and His capacity to preserve His word for our generations instruction in truth.
Jude 1:14-25
14 Now Enoch, who lived seven generations after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said,
>This leaves little doubt that Jesus' half-brother Jude believed Adam was a real person.<
"Look, the Lord is coming
with thousands of his holy ones.
15 He will bring the people of the world
to judgment.
He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things
they have done in rebellion
and of all the insults that godless sinners
have spoken against him."
>This illustrates the Biblical principle that Jesus Christ is our Standard giver, for He has authority to use those standards in judgment. Our personal standards are of no account.<
16 These people are grumblers and complainers, doing whatever evil they feel like. They are loudmouthed braggarts, and they flatter others to get favors in return.
17 But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you,
18 that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable.
19 Now they are here, and they are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They live by natural instinct because they do not have God’s Spirit living in them.
>Here we have the error of the evolutionist. The assumption that nature is the source of truth, while in truth a Sovereign Creator who created the laws of nature, has the power to change them at will. To deny the power of God by believing nature is a final arbiter of truth, is to mock the intelligence we have been created with. Natural instinct leads self-centered sinfulness which will bear the fruit presented in Eden "and ye shall be as gods".<
20 But you, dear friends, must continue to build your lives on the foundation of your holy faith. And continue to pray as you are directed by the Holy Spirit.
21 Live in such a way that God’s love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you.
>Eternal life is a gift from our all powerful Creator Jesus Christ. He gives it to us, we do not earn it. Honoring Christ Jesus is the only path toward true freedom.<
22 Show mercy to those whose faith is wavering.
23 Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. There are still others to whom you need to show mercy, but be careful that you aren't contaminated by their sins.
24 And now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from stumbling, and who will bring you into his glorious presence innocent of sin and with great joy.
25 All glory to him, who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yes, glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to him, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen.
>The truth spoken clearly by the Word of God.<
Except this quote in a quote mine ;^)
chemical reactions are accounted for, as while atoms are lazy, they do with to satisfy the octet rule. now that both the octet rule and the second law are on the same page:
why several moles of carbon mix with other atoms is accounted for now. but why would several molecules bind into something that REQUIRES more energy to satisfy itself? the idea is that once an element is satisfied on the octet rule, it would prefer to not change any further unless forced to do so. what forced atoms to bond until they formed a cell in the first place?
14 Now Enoch, who lived seven generations after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said,
Gen.5:3-18
Adam-->Seth--> Enos--> Cainan---> Mahalaleel---> Jared--> Enoch.
Luke
3:37
..which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
3:38
Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Hey, I count only 6 generations after Adam not 7. Which is it??
>This leaves little doubt that Jesus' half-brother Jude believed Adam was a real person.<
It also leaves little doubt that Jude wasn't an authority on the subject.
"Look, the Lord is coming with thousands of his holy ones.
Or the KJV
"Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,"
So which is it, 1000s or 10000s? Holy ones or saints?
Not that it matters since Jude doesn't even know the difference between 6 and 7 I'm sure he doesn't know what 1000s are
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400?
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