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To: count-your-change; metmom
"So if a person can't change the fly, change the definitions."

I am seeing a common theme in these threads. It is in those areas of willful and woeful ignorance that those who choose to be anti-Catholics rail the most against that of which they know nothing. God gave you the gift of intellect. You do not worship Him by refusing to use it.

We are dealing with science here so definitions actually serve as boundary conditions. A common species must, by definition, have the ability to successfully breed with other members of the same species. New "fruit fly" species did evolve in the lab that were unable to successfully reproduce with their antecedent species. And, for the record, Drosophila is a genus, not a species, containing many, many "fruit fly" species.

Not only have you failed the science, but your logic is highly flawed as well. You are claiming that because fruit flies did not become mice or clams that evolution was not demonstrated, when the Theory of Evolution contents that gradual changes occur such that the most well suited variant survives to reproduce and the least suited die out and that over time the cumulative changes are significant enough to form new genus, orders, families, etc.

253 posted on 08/24/2011 8:16:04 AM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Natural Law; count-your-change; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...
It is in those areas of willful and woeful ignorance that those who choose to be anti-Catholics rail the most against that of which they know nothing. God gave you the gift of intellect. You do not worship Him by refusing to use it.

Calling God a liar doesn't win you any points either.

Poor persecuted Catholic. Why do you make this about Catholicism anyway? The thread is about the ToE, not an opportunity to play the religious martyr, which really doesn't wear well coming from a Catholic especially considering the Catholic church history concerning science (read Galileo)

254 posted on 08/24/2011 10:22:09 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Natural Law; metmom; GourmetDan; count-your-change; MrB; cpanther70; betty boop

Lemme put that into layman’s terms.

Natural Law:

“You people have no business thinking for yourselves. You weren’t suppose to google Drosophila CONTROVERSY, and once you did, you were supposed to ignore what you read.

Us liberals will determine what’s real and what’s not.

Oh, aqnd do as I say, not as I do.”


255 posted on 08/24/2011 10:22:16 AM PDT by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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