Posted on 07/23/2006 8:49:26 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
It could also be said that your statistics of people who called themselves Christians was blatantly laughable. Note how I said the "Churches" themselves did not support evolution?
Take note of the "Church" versus the individual, and the "support".
This is just an example of the twisting and shouting anti-evolutionists perform when spreading their propaganda.
I suspect that lilylangtree read about the putative ~35,000,000 single nucleotide differences between the chimp genome and our genome. For some reason she looks at each nucleotide as a separate reason to doubt that humans and chimps share a common ancestor. I guess she figures that humans and chimps did not diverge equally from the common ancestor nor that some of those differences would have been from multi-point mutations such as gene duplication. In any case she seems more than willing to accept numbers from questionable sources without thinking.
Chimp/Human ancestor DNA segment:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Current Chimp DNA same locus.
AAAAAGGGAAAAAAA (single 3 nucleotide mutation event)
Current Homo DNA at same locus.
AAAATAAACAAAAAA (two single nucleotide mutation events)
Creationist view: 5 reasons to doubt common ancestry.
Relationship view: (Useful when comparing multiple extant species) Variance of 3 mutations between species.
Common descent view: Humans vary from the common ancestor by 2 mutation events. Chimps vary from the common ancestor by 1 mutation event.
The theory of evolution does however.
Losing a debate? I think flooding a poster, 6-1 is spreadin the poster's resources a bit thin. What do you think?
"It could also be said that your statistics of people who called themselves Christians was blatantly laughable."
That's par for the course for you. Don't like the facts? Ignore them. Not doing well in the debate? Move the goalposts.
"Note how I said the "Churches" themselves did not support evolution?"
I know, you provided no evidence for that claim.
"Take note of the "Church" versus the individual, and the "support"."
And the evasions, and the logical contortions, and the... :)
Conservatism has the Young Earth Christian whackjobs; Liberalism has the econuts, the feminists, and the gay activists. I think the majority of us can do without all of them.
You sure don't seem to put a lot of thought into your posts. You might just want to give that a try.
I think it depends on the quality of your resources.
Great, so you yourself did the same that you accuse me of doing. Quit with the bs mind-games.
"Great, so you yourself did the same that you accuse me of doing."
I did not. Making things up won;t help you.
Better quit while you're behind.
Mighty wide assumption for someone who can't read minds.
Here is the (somewhat) current Synthetic Theory of Evolution.
Care to point out where the core argument is that life emerged from raw natural processes?
How are you helping the philosophy of the argument, by this? *laughs*
"Mighty wide assumption for someone who can't read minds."
I can read your posts. You are whining.
Could you please restate this? I don't quite understand what you mean.
Really? Pissing on the third rail causes similar effect.
"Really? Pissing on the third rail causes similar effect."
If you want to liken your posts to pissing on the third rail, I won;t stop you.
You are creating a false dichotomy by limiting the definition of Christian to those that do not accept evolution. The acceptance of Evolution is not restricted to atheists (or at least to non-Christians).
You can't put forward a convincing argument by redefining terms.
For example, I myself am an ID'ist. I believe in Microevolution, but not in heavy Macro. I do not disagree with arguments that include or involve Christianity. I do disaree with the general philosophy of atheists to use it is a "proof" against Christianity -- as it is often used by my Socialist friends. I use Christianity to support Conservatism, wheras my Socialist friends use evolution to support flawed human "enjoyment" behavior.
Why do you think 6 pro-evo posters decided to take up your ideas?
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