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To: DouglasKC

Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false. If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic.


13 posted on 05/06/2005 7:56:07 PM PDT by sigSEGV
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false. If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic.

I don't think that's the argument. I think the argument is that DNA is too complex to have happened by chance or random occurrence. A computer is complex and there's relatively few people in the world who know and can understand all the elements of electricity, electronics, computer theory, magnetics, and all of the processes that go into a computer...yet nobody claims that computers just randomly evolved from lightning bolts.

19 posted on 05/06/2005 8:05:17 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: sigSEGV

Keep reading and studying... You'll catch on eventually.


21 posted on 05/06/2005 8:08:35 PM PDT by demkicker (Support DeLay, the Hammer, and the filibuster ban on judicial nominations!)
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false.

Well it's hardly evidence that it's true.

If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic.

No, we're not talking about global warming.

23 posted on 05/06/2005 8:09:58 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses.)
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false.

No. Its the other way around. Evolutionists have to make a reasonable case it is likely before teaching this stuff to children as fact. The fact no one is allowed to even question evolution without being ridiculed is preposterous. Political correctness has infested academia on this topic and global warming.

76 posted on 05/06/2005 8:49:00 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false. If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic.

Well said! A thousand years ago, lightning, eclipses, the phases of the moon, volcanoes erupting, diseases, etc. - all were complex and not understood. Simply saying it was gods doing didn't explain anything or make life easier. It was the "scientific method" that got us out of the dark ages.

Same thing today - saying that god created everything adds zero to our understanding.

I find creationists to be as bad as most environazis. Their agenda is to not to search for the truth, but to force their dogma on everyone else.

85 posted on 05/06/2005 8:51:24 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false. If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic.

That's about the best short summation of the "ID movement" I've ever seen.

121 posted on 05/06/2005 9:14:29 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: sigSEGV
Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false.

CLANK ! Sound of mind closing rapidly.

It isn't a case of saying DNA is complex. It's a case of saying that DNA is so mind boggling, astoundingly, unfathonabley, unquestionably complex, that Evolution has absolutely ZERO chance of being true.

It's right there in front of you, but you REFUSE to see it.

153 posted on 05/06/2005 9:36:44 PM PDT by GSHastings
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To: sigSEGV

A mathemetician, who's name escapes me, has calculated that not enough time has elapsed since Earth's founding in order for there to be enough mutations to have taken place to result in a human. Considering the number of cells, 100 trillion, he may be right.


250 posted on 05/07/2005 8:55:06 AM PDT by midnightson (Mama-the ultimate prognosticator- said there'd be days like this.)
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To: sigSEGV
"Claiming that DNA is complex is hardly evidence that evolution is false. If you keep telling people that something is too complex for them to understand, apparently some of them start to believe it's magic. "

But is there not some point in complexity over time where evolution would break down? If the big bang occured 10 years ago, and first life appeared 3 years ago, would you still believe evolution adequately explained the complexity of living species? Where is the "break point"? and why?

307 posted on 05/07/2005 5:41:34 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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