only God could have messed this freaky dude up this bad.
Posted on 03/16/2019 11:26:56 AM PDT by Simon Green
The notion of “intelligent design” arose after opponents of evolution repeatedly failed on First Amendment grounds to get Bible-based creationism taught in the public schools. Their solution: Take God out of the mix and replace him with an unspecified “intelligent designer.” They added some irrelevant mathematics and fancy biochemical jargon, and lo: intelligent design, which scientists have dubbed “creationism in a cheap tuxedo.”
But the tuxedo is fraying, for intelligent design has been rejected not just by biologists but also by judges who recognize it as poorly disguised religion. Nevertheless, its advocates persist. Among the most vocal is Michael J. Behe, a biology professor at Lehigh University whose previous books, despite withering criticism from scientists, have sold well in a country where 76 percent of us think God had some role in human evolution.
Behe does not rely on the Bible as a science textbook. Rather, he admits that evolution occurs by natural selection sifting new mutations and that all species are related via common ancestors. Where he parts company with other biologists is in his claim that the important mutations producing new types of organisms are not random accidents but are deliberately installed by a designer with a plan. A pious Catholic, Behe sees the designer as the Christian God but concedes that there could be other mutation-makers. These designed mutations solve what he sees as a problem for natural selection: the origin of some complex biochemical features. Such features appear to defy Darwinian explanation because, claims Behe, they can’t function until all the parts are in place. (Unguided natural selection requires that every step in the evolution of a complex feature must enhance an organism’s fitness.) Ergo, these “irreducibly complex” systems must have been forged by a designer who made simultaneous changes in several genes.
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How is it that the blueprint for life is built into the mathematics of the tiniest subatomic particle.
Atoms are essentially an erector set for life. Assemble them together correctly and you have life.
I identify as God in 3 ..... 2 ..... 1 .....
Phi; “The Golden Ratio.”
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” (Psalm 14:1).
The inconvenient lie is that if there is no God, then there can be no judgment — so, “there is no God.”
Mutations through natural selection is called adaptation. It is not evolution
Hey WaPo, mere journalists mentioning math and analysis?
I’m not even close to defending the Creationists - but good grief, we STEM types have a phrase: “What do you call our F students? Journalists.”
Please do something within your meager capabilities - like writing about low-IQ entertainers, “liking” idiots on Facebook and giving us humorous idiocies on Twitter.
The probability that life arose from a stochastic process is almost zero.
Yet, every time scientists think that have it all figured out and there is nothing more to know, they are reminded that they don’t and nature gets even more abstract. Question: will scientists ever know enough to conclusively rule out a deity, a creator? The answer is absolutely no.
Except Einstein believed in it.
Remove intelligent design and replace it with “climate change”, creationism with “global warming”...
only God could have messed this freaky dude up this bad.
I’m not even close to defending the Creationists - but good grief, we STEM types have a phrase: “What do you call our F students? Journalists.”
Please do something within your meager capabilities - like writing about low-IQ entertainers, “liking” idiots on Facebook and giving us humorous idiocies on Twitter.
Jerry A. Coyne is a professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Why Evolution is True” and “Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible.”
A bacterial flagellum is a motorized system the size of a virus with more power than a NASCAR engine. There are no examples of such complexity being a result of anything but intelligence.
Stop posting left-wing propaganda here.
Atoms are essentially an erector set for life. Assemble them together correctly and you have life.
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True. But then, life springing from those parts by themselves has proven tricky.
Nor is there a single mutation that provides evidence one species can evolve into another.
Evolution is nothing more than fraud.
Most of the major “discovieries” related to proving mans evolution have been later on proven or discovered to be fraud. Often because such ‘scientists’ grants for money were running out.
Pig bones, gorilla bones, bones omitted, bones modifed and carved, from one bone an entire skeleton is ‘derived’. Flawed dating methods.
From the introduction to Speciation by Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr
ML/NJ
But life assembles itself just fine.
That’s built into the blueprint too.
Isn’t it amazing how something as fantastically complex as that is just an accident?
That’s why the universe is replete with life forms.
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