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To: stremba

The evolution arguement is such that time explains everything. Yes a man and a maple tree are 2 completely types of organisms, why is this? Because 2 billion years passed by! Isn't it obvious when you notice you are not sprouting leaves and the tree is! Billions and billions I tell you , man!


162 posted on 02/08/2005 6:50:45 AM PST by HankReardon
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To: HankReardon
The evolution arguement is such that time explains everything.

No, it isn't, but thank you so much for repeating that creationist canard.

Yes a man and a maple tree are 2 completely types of organisms, why is this?

Why are they "2 completely types"? Could we have that in English?

Because 2 billion years passed by!

No, because of the action of evolutionary processes. Time alone doesn't do a lot.

Isn't it obvious when you notice you are not sprouting leaves and the tree is! Billions and billions I tell you , man!

The astute reader will note what goofy "arguments" the anti-evolutionists make, and how they fail to even attempt to address the mountains of scientific evidence on the subject...

Here, Hank, have a cookie. Now run and play with your friends.

168 posted on 02/08/2005 6:54:16 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: HankReardon

Are you seriously suggesting that, on a purely physical level, there's a fundamental difference between a tree and a human other than a difference in the DNA of each? Both start their development as single cells and proceed according to the instructions in their DNA codes. Are you seriously suggesting that if one of your cells were removed from your body and its DNA replaced with DNA from a maple tree and a new organism cloned from that modified cell, that the new organism would not be a maple tree? (I'm not saying that such a thing is practically possible, BTW, but it's easy to consider it as a thought experiment, although I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing were possible in the very near future.)It has been demonstrated that the DNA of an organism does change over time. It has also been demonstrated that humans and maple trees have over 50% of their DNA in common. Now, if DNA changes over time and differences in DNA are what fundamentally separates one species from another, what would prevent the DNA of a maple tree from changing sufficiently to produce the DNA of a human, given enough time for a sufficiently large change in the DNA to occur.


181 posted on 02/08/2005 7:00:56 AM PST by stremba
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