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To: Thatcherite
Since evolution stands on literally millions of data points,

Almost all of which are really assumptions

...with numerous successful predictions under its belt,

With many well published flaws that debunk evolution ...

and no significant data/evidence led dissent about its truth within the worldwide scientific community for more than a century

Now that's absolutely incorrect! You present these thesis as fact, when the reality is many of evolution's own proponents have decided that the evidence does not support evolution, and that too many assumptions and mathematical errors have been made over time to consider the theory of evolution valid.

Every time a scientist decides evolution is bunk, you in the "darwin community" turn on them, deride them, then pretend they don't exist.

Let me see, who was the prominent scientist who was for evolution until he published an article in June of 2004 that debunked Darwin?

You're free to believe what you like, however false and unproven it is. The facts are, the more science looks at the "new earth" theory, the "old earth" theory gets debunked and the Bible is proven correct.

24 posted on 09/17/2005 1:26:42 PM PDT by usconservative ((Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate this space.))
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To: usconservative
The facts are, the more science looks at the "new earth" theory, the "old earth" theory gets debunked and the Bible is proven correct.

You mean "new earth" as?


...in the seventeenth century [1644], in his great work, Dr. John Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and one of the most eminent Hebrew scholars of his time, declared, as the result of his most profound and exhaustive study of the Scriptures, that "heaven and earth, centre and circumference, were created all together, in the same instant, and clouds full of water," and that "this work took place and man was created by the Trinity on October 23, 4004 B.C., at nine o'clock in the morning."

Andrew D. White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (D. Appleton and Co., 1897, p. 9).

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm


How do you account for the bristlecone pine tree-ring sequence which can be counted back some 11,000+ years? Or the ice-core and glacial varves which go much older?
26 posted on 09/17/2005 1:43:05 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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To: usconservative

Festival of ignorance placemarker.


29 posted on 09/17/2005 1:45:58 PM PDT by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: usconservative
The facts are, the more science looks at the "new earth" theory, the "old earth" theory gets debunked and the Bible is proven correct.

What peer-reviewed journal did this sudden revolution in science get published in?

33 posted on 09/17/2005 1:53:03 PM PDT by Quark2005 (Where's the science?)
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To: usconservative
Let me see, who was the prominent scientist who was for evolution until he published an article in June of 2004 that debunked Darwin?

I would expect to know that and I don't. I give up, in fact. Who?

35 posted on 09/17/2005 1:54:51 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: usconservative
With many well published flaws that debunk evolution ...

I'm sure you don't mind refering us to one of these published flaws?

56 posted on 09/17/2005 4:13:39 PM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: usconservative; Thatcherite
[Since evolution stands on literally millions of data points,]

Almost all of which are really assumptions

Nope. Please do not post *YOUR* uninformed ASSUMPTION as if it were fact. You are clearly quite unfamiliar with the actual body of evidence. Go and learn something about evolutionary biology and the massive amount of evidence supporting it, then come back and try again.

With many well published flaws that debunk evolution ...

Uh huh. Sure. Look, over the past thirty years, I've read literally THOUSANDS of attempts by anti-evolutionists to present what they thought were "flaws that debunked evolution". Every one of them (let me repeat that -- EVERY one of them) has fallen flat on its face, usually due to the person being astoundingly clueless about what evolutionary biology actually says, or what the evidence for it actually is, or how the principles of physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc. actually work in practice.

But hey, feel free to give us *your* stab at it, let's see if you can be the first creationist to actually have the "silver bullet" against evolution he believes he does. I'm always open to looking at any good argument or evidence, if you actually have some. But the creationist track record is VERY poor in that regard.

For instance, make sure that the material you have which you think "debunks" evolution actually hasn't already been previously considered and itself DEBUNKED a thousand times over before you came along. Here's an abbreviated list of some of the flawed anti-evolution arguments that have already been found to be flawed:

Index to Creationist Claims

edited by Mark Isaak
Copyright © 2005
[Last update: 19 Aug 2005]

Introduction

CA: Philosophy and Theology

CB: Biology

CC: Paleontology

CD: Geology

CE: Astronomy and Cosmology

CF: Physics and Mathematics

CG: Miscellaneous Anti-Evolution

CH: Biblical Creationism

CI: Intelligent Design

CJ: Other Creationism

Authors
[and no significant data/evidence led dissent about its truth within the worldwide scientific community for more than a century]

Now that's absolutely incorrect!

No it isn't. If you think otherwise, feel free to present the *SIGNIFICANT* amount of *EVIDENCE-DRIVEN* dissent about evolution from within the scientific community from, say, 1880-1980. We'll wait.

You present these thesis as fact, when the reality is many of evolution's own proponents have decided that the evidence does not support evolution,

No they haven't. Feel free to name, say, five if you think you can (out of the "many" you claim exist).

and that too many assumptions and mathematical errors have been made over time to consider the theory of evolution valid.

Wrong again. My, you *have* been reading too many creationist tracts and not enough science journals, haven't you?

Every time a scientist decides evolution is bunk, you in the "darwin community" turn on them, deride them, then pretend they don't exist.

No, just point out the many errors they're making when they turn their engineering degree or whatever to a field they poorly understand. Or in Behe's case, when he inexplicably makes elementary errors in basic biology despite a biology degree -- I sometimes suspect he's "trolling" the creationists in order to make money from book sales. Heck, at times I'm tempted to do that myself, there seems to be a lot of money in it.

Let me see, who was the prominent scientist who was for evolution until he published an article in June of 2004 that debunked Darwin?

Got me. If you're thinking of Antony Flew, you're grossly misrepresenting what he *actually* changed his mind about.

You're free to believe what you like, however false and unproven it is.

Indeed, which is why the anti-evolutionists are free to do so. They believe a lot of utterly false things about science.

The facts are, the more science looks at the "new earth" theory, the "old earth" theory gets debunked and the Bible is proven correct.

...you're free to believe that, even though it's false. If you don't want to go learn any actual science, and just want to parrot creationist falsehoods about the state of the evidence without personally going and *learning* the subject yourself, that's entirely your right.

Just don't try to teach that horse manure in science classes. Telling students lies about science, telling them lies about the evidence, is not acceptable.

Look, you're clearly as much a victim of those lies as the students would be if this nonsense were to get into their classrooms. Someone has fed you garbage, polluting your mind with falsehoods. I blame them, not you. But you *do* have some responsibility in the matter -- now that you have been notified that you've been unknowingly repeating lies, like a too-trusting follower of Michael Moore, you need to go and learn more about the subject yourself, so that you can replace the propaganda in your head with actual knowledge of the topic, and so that you can innoculate yourself from future propagandists. And stop repeating material from the same unreliable sources, until you're able to personally *know* whether it's valid information, or more of the same dishonesties and ignorant presumptions.

68 posted on 09/17/2005 6:50:43 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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