Posted on 08/26/2005 8:57:58 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
You are obviously a critical thinker. Is it impossible that the universe was created?
Who said anything about science? Here's what I said.
The bottom line is it doesn't really matter what "Darwinism" is. As long as it leads one away from God, that's all that truly matters.
And Darwin's scientific theory of evolution through natural selection cannot possibly lead one away from God; but only show how the universe that God created works.
There is nothing scientific about Darwinism. It's pure speculation.
You don't call naziism and communism being led away from God?
Darwin postulated that there was differences between members of the same species and that these differences could be selected for or against by the environment leading to them being more or less prevalent within the population depending upon if they were selected for or against. This has been demonstrated repeatably in the lab.
My ass.
Logically discourse this -- in the following statement you say: Darwin postulated that there was differences between members of the same species and that these differences could be selected for or against by the environment leading to them being more or less prevalent within the population depending upon if they were selected for or against. This has been demonstrated repeatably in the lab.
Question: In the lab demonstrations, who or what did the selecting?
Dr. David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard seems to think that the purpose of science is to create stories/theories in regard to the origin of life that – well, as he says, ‘’my expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention.”
Myth 1: The theory of intelligent design is a modern version of Creationism.
Fact: The theory of intelligent design goes back at least as far as classical Greece and it has been debated in nearly every century since then.
…"as a blind man has no idea of colors," Newton wrote, "so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things." But the structure of the universe provides a clue, enabling us to "know (God) . . . by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes." As for the idea that science could lead to atheism, Newton dismissed it brusquely: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could [not] produce [the] variety of things" found on our diverse and ever-surprising world…
My faith, and the worldly evidence that God has given me only help to strenghten it beaxause it shows that He created the world, and how he did it, but I am also wise enough to know that we humans were not there for creation so all we beside theory is revelation.
I am curious what you would call serious problems?
Your post is rather redundant, because we on the evo side have been saying for years the there is nothing new in Behe.
Behe's book, almost word for word, was published in 1802. The argument was old then, as you have pointed out.
This would explain why Darwin's Origin is written explicitely to answer this line of thought. Origin takes each and everry argument posed by William Paley in 1802, and counters it.
The rebuttal has yet to be published. Current ID theory is just a paraphrase of Paley.
Evolving the Bacterial Flagellum Through Mutation and Cooption
Evolving the Bacterial Flagellum Through Mutation and Cooption: Part II
Evolving the Bacterial Flagellum Through Mutation and Cooption: Part III
Evolving the Bacterial Flagellum Through Mutation and Cooption: Part IV
I suppose that if you are willing to lie about what biologist say about the evolution of the flagellum, you can make a pretty good case against your invented scenerio.
The easiest way to lie is to take a layman's explanation, which is necessarily vague, and poke holes in it for vagueness.
If you want to argue against actual biology, instead of aganst straw man biology, I suggest you start with a description that is not vague.
Did you read the data? Have you become as dogmatic as the people you criticize?
Is the Design Theory, in your opinion, a theory that has been disproved?
God created naziism (sic) and communism.
Thank you senator Durban…
It is natures intention that the exact genetic information from both parents will be seen in the offspring's DNA in the the critical stages of fertilisation. However, it is possible for this genetic information to mutate, which in most cases, can result in fatal or negative consequencies in the outcome of the new ogranism.
Non-Disjunction and Down's Syndrome
One well known example of mutation is non-disjunction. Non-disjunction is when the spindle fibres fail to seperate during meiosis, resulting in gametes with one extra chromosome and other gametes lacking a chromosome.
If this non-disjunction occurs in chromosome 21 of a human egg cell, a condition called Down's syndrome occurs. This is because their cells possess 47 chromosomes as opposed to the normal chromosome compliment in humans of 46.
Chromosome Mutations
The fundamental structure of a chromosome is subject to mutation, which will most likely occur during crossing over at meiosis. There are a number of ways in which the chromosome structure can change, as indicated below, which will detrimentally change the genotype and phenotype of the organism. However, if the chromosome mutation effects an essential part of DNA, it is possible that the mutation will abort the offspring before it has the chance of being born.
The following indicates types of chromosome mutation where whole genes are moved:
Deletion of a Gene
As the name implies, genes of a chromosome are permanently lost as they become unattached to the centromere and are lost forever
Normal chromosome before mutation
Genes not attached to centromere become loose and lost forever
New chromosome lacks certain genes which may prove fatal depending on how important these genes are
Duplication of Genes
In this mutation, the mutants genes are displayed twice on the same chromosome due to duplication of these genes. This can prove to be an advantageous mutation as no genetic information is lost or altered and new genes are gained
Normal chromosome before mutation
Genes from the homologous chromosome are copied and inserted into the genetic sequence
New chromosome possesses all its initial genes plus a duplicated one, which is usually harmless
The next page continues looking at these chromosome mutations and mutations that happen within genes that can prove to be more harmful to the organism at hand. The following pages also investigates polyploidy in species.
biology-online.org
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