Posted on 02/04/2015 5:28:02 AM PST by Heartlander
neither can Darwinism explain how things come to be for instead of an intelligent designer (which intuitively makes sense) it offers random mistakes filtered by natural selection which is just another layer of randomness (which makes no sense at all). The details of why random mistakes would show up in a useful progression such that tremendously complicated structures get built up are never provided, nor explained, nor quantified in any way that science demands. Nor is it at all clear how each mistake could provide instant benefits even though a fully functional transformation remains in the distant future.But wait it gets worse. Darwinism (unlike ID) doesnt even exclude anything. It allows for convergent evolution (statistically impossible), stagnant evolution (you mean to tell me that for 500 million years there could be no improvement to the horseshoe crab?), punctuated evolution (everything stays the same for a real long time and then evolution kicks into high gear and it all happens so fast theres no record of it having happened at all), neutral evolution (the blueprints for marvelously useful structures get created in unexpressed DNA by random shuffling, until one day voila, the gene is turned on and the structure appears fully formed). In evolution anything goes and contradictions live in happy harmony with one another. This is science? Its not even a sound religion.
- Laszlo Bencze
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religiona full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.
Michael Ruse, How evolution became a religion
Evolution is like globull warming. EVERYTHING “supports” their theory.
Since the earth was a molten ball for the first 3 billion years of its existance, unable to sustain life, it would appear that this bacteria has never evolved.
A theory which explains everything explains nothing.
In either case is is a matter of faith...I can neither prove or disprove one or the other of these.
Darwin’s theory is fairly well constructed and plausible...but it is still a matter of faith since it cannot be empirically proven.
God...well, again it’s a matter of faith. Can’t prove he does, cannot prove he doesn’t and all evidence to support is inconclusive and must be taken as a matter of faith.
Believe or don’t but these nitwits keep trying to prove that Darwin was right...my question to them then becomes: How do you know that evolution isn’t what God intended?
Precisely. So much of what is called science is pure conjecture.
The measured, repeated reaction of a substance to the introduction of another substance is science. Understanding the electromagnetic spectrum with methodical testing is science. Casting guesses about why a Star Fish doesn't have toes is not science.
Science was a field of true discovery starting in the late 17th century, with discoveries building on each other exponentially through the mid to late 20th century.
Although there are still a few true scientific revelations, most scientific fields are at a dead end, or at best in the utilitarian application stage, compared to the glory days of world changing discoveries. In 1900, a PhD could have spent days listing major phenomenon that were a mystery. Now it is a handful of subjects that are generally unprovable in a truly definitive way.
Science is stale, but there are more scientists than ever. So what do they do? They mainly compete to come up with the most plausibly acceptable guesses. They can't be proved wrong, and any peer that dares point it out is kicking at the entire house of cards.
Evolution: Get rid of God. Globull warming: Subjugate the people.
“(The finding) is consistent with the null hypothesis required of Darwinian evolution if there is no change in the physical-biological environment of a well-adapted ecosystem, its biotic components should similarly remain unchanged (though) additional evidence will be needed to establish this aspect of evolutionary theory.”
— from the original paper, “Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution’s null hypothesis”.
Uncharged? Is this some new type of ancient battery?
If their environment remains the same, there is no need for them to evolve.
That had me going - I’m sure they meant to write unchanged.
No Christian denies micro-evolution, that there are changes within species. There are dog breeds from Chihuahua to Great Dane, but they’re still dogs. It’s the macro-evolution thing, that dinos morphed into chickens, etc., that has no observable, repeatable scientific basis, no transitional forms, etc. There should be billions upon billions of such transitional forms for goo to you through the zoo to be true, but there’s not a single one that hasn’t been disputed.
In fact, a t-rex bone was recently found out west that was NOT permineralized (fossilized) and still had wet gelatinous heme in its marrow. After 65 million years. Riiiight.
Origins “science” is in reality a misnomer. Evolution purports to be “science,” but in reality is merely faith. Just like Christianity. They try to dress it up in scientific language, but it’s still just faith, as Ruse admitted.
The most “simple” of single-celled organisms is stupendously complex. It’s laughable to believe that complexity could’ve sprung from random processes. The formation of even a single protein via random processes has been likened to a solar system full of blind men all simultaneously solving the Rubik’s Cube. And that “simple” organism requires dozens of proteins, organelles, cytoplasm, a selectively permeable cell membrane and the most complex code in the world: DNA. Such faith!
Clearly, these authors really dont understand the theory of evolution. This article is really quite embarassing.
A highly successful life form has no need to evolve.
About a year or so ago, I read an astounding essay on evolution posted here by a freeper, explaining how it was mostly an impossibility. Can’t remember the freeper, and kick myself for not having saved that essay! Anyone here that might know who it was, or have a link? It was pretty long, and I almost didn’t read the whole thing, but it sucked me in.
Like every lefty they just can’t hit the “I believe” button and move on to more important things. And the reality is that they are miserable people who wish to drag everyone down into their swamp. They have to be a killjoy to everyone who aren’t as miserable as they are.
As a Physicist the more I learned at the quantum level, the more I knew that I could not know everything. There were so many areas of specialty in post-doc to degrees that I never imagined before then.
What one notices within the post graduate hard sciences is that there are the 15% who are avowed atheists, 15% who are like me, quasi-neutral but accepting of the possibilities beyond what our simple minds can fathom, and the 70% who are devout Christian/Jews. Not your run of the mill believers but every Saturday/Sunday active synagog/church goers.
When questioned by me about this as a newly minted Ph.D the physics department chair said “I can’t explain everything, I can’t know everything, and in the absence of this ability I have to believe in something larger than myself else I’ll go crazy trying. You have to have some level of peace of mind and acceptance of your place in the cosmos”.
He further explained that as you become more aware of what you don’t know, and that you simply cannot know because you don’t have enough time on earth to learn it, the smaller you begin to feel, into a level of insignificance that is dangerous to your overall mental health. Thus the need to believe in something larger/greater than yourself.
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