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To: Junior
"They are relying on reproducible experimentation and observation. Faith never enters into it."

Really?

Provide reproducible experimentation and observation (and any evidence) for the evolution of feathers from scales.

Provide the same for the evolution of the simplest single cell (point after abiogenesis) to all the diverse/complex life observeable today (and where/how did the single cell get the genetic information gain?).

258 posted on 09/01/2005 8:00:10 PM PDT by pby
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To: pby
Provide reproducible experimentation and observation (and any evidence) for the evolution of feathers from scales.

[Observation] The fossil record actually contains fossils of therapod dinosaurs with primitive feathers through complex feathers. The velociraptor of Jurassic Park fame shows evidence of feathers.

Provide the same for the evolution of the simplest single cell (point after abiogenesis) to all the diverse/complex life observeable today (and where/how did the single cell get the genetic information gain?).

First off, a single cell was probably not the first living imperfect replicator, so your comment is fallacious on the face of it. Secondly studying the genome [experimentation/observation] provides clues to the interrelatednes of all living organisms.

Secondly, you must define "information." Creationists bandy about this word as if it were some magic talisman, but they never define it. The size of the genome, and hence the amount of information readily available can change through such observed phenomena as gene duplication, or retroviral insertions.

326 posted on 09/02/2005 3:32:21 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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