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To: PatrickHenry
It's all a part of what we call post-Dover syndrome, which was easily foreseeable the day the brilliant opinion by Judge Jones came out. The symptoms are understandable -- denial, disorientation, anger, scapegoating, and finally ... an even more fervent commitment to creationism.

That might be what we've got here. I'm wondering if some of the more ludicrous, drunken streams of consciousness from creationists on this thread are for real though. DU fratboys trying to make conservatives look stupid?

I think this is the funniest argument against evolution we've seen yet...


362 posted on 02/13/2006 9:18:22 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: Thatcherite
I've covered that in Micro-evolution, Macro-evolution, and Speciation:
Creationists -- at least those who venture into the domain of science -- steadfastly claim that evolution relies on never-occurring, single-generation, large-scale transitions from one species to another -- an imaginary phenomenon they call "macro-evolution" -- a fiction of their own devising which they correctly reject for lack of evidence. From this wobbly foundation, they go on to claim that because ducks never give birth to dogs, or monkeys to humans, that all of evolution is false.

It is not known why creationists consistently fail to comprehend that the gradual process of evolution requires only "micro-evolution" -- a well-observed, easily understood, undirected natural phenomenon which they claim to accept. Perhaps it's because gradual change via mutation and natural selection is too easy to understand, too natural, too obvious! Or perhaps it's because because they realize that a long series of small changes implies that the Earth is far older than they would prefer. They don't want to understand such an explanation. They prefer that the origin of species be an inexplicable mystery -- one which must have a supernatural cause. But in rejecting the fantasy of "macro-evolution" -- events that never happen and which are actually contrary to the process of evolution, creationists are saying nothing about the theory of evolution, only their own, self-imposed misunderstanding.


364 posted on 02/13/2006 9:23:13 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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