Posted on 09/13/2005 4:15:07 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
So what would Charles Darwin have to say about the dust-up between today's evolutionists and intelligent designers?
Probably nothing.
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Even after he became one of the most famous and controversial men of his time, he was always content to let surrogates argue his case.
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From his university days Darwin would have been familiar with the case for intelligent design. In 1802, nearly 30 years before the Beagle set sail, William Paley, the reigning theologian of his time, published "Natural Theology" in which he laid out his "Argument from Design."
Paley contended that if a person discovered a pocket watch while taking a ramble across the heath, he would know instantly that this was a designed object, not something that had evolved by chance. Therefore, there must be a designer. Similarly, man -- a marvelously intricate piece of biological machinery -- also must have been designed by "Someone."
If this has a familiar ring to it, it's because this is pretty much the same argument that intelligent design advocates use today.
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The first great public debate took place on June 30, 1860, in a packed hall at Oxford University's new Zoological Museum.
Samuel Wilberforce, the learned bishop of Oxford, was champing at the bit to demolish Darwin's notion that man descended from apes. As always, Darwin stayed home. His case was argued by one of his admirers, biologist Thomas Huxley.
Wilberforce drew whoops of glee from the gallery when he sarcastically asked Huxley if he claimed descent from the apes on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's. Huxley retorted that he would rather be related to an ape than to a man of the church who used half-truths and nonsense to attack science.
The argument continues unabated ...
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That is a source, and while I consider it a fable, I think you probably look at Tufts uUiversity as a reliable source on evolution.
Oh, please… More likely you’re projecting your own fears.
You post poo poo dukie comments about Darwin's health with pictures of him as a monkey, and call me scared. Good luck
You suggest evolutionists should "know their enemy", yet you don't know where your "six types of evolution" question originally came from?
There's a saying about a mote and a beam that applies - not sure where it's from.
'Dinoflagellate'. It's called a typo.
But he was probably referring to flagellates, which propel themselves via a flagellum. His reason for doing so is to show that a flagellate can spin its flagellum at 1000 RPM, stop in a quarter-turn, then immediately spin the other way at 1000 RPM again. Practically no energy lost. Utter efficiency.
Better than anything we could pull off. Yet it supposedly happened by 'chance'.
Don't need a new Bible each day, it hasn't changed, but the therory of evolutin, now that is a work in progress, hey, still think babies in the womb have gills? What say you get your doctor to remove that useless tail bone?
I'm pretty sure I heard bagpipes.....
So, you figure you don't need that apendix? How about your tail bone, wanna get rid of it too? Perhaps you might want to consult with a medical doctor first.
You evolutionist are so much fun.
PS, if Hebrews 9:27 is right, you might want to get used to capitalizing that "G" in God.
and these days the intelligent designers and anti-evolutionists seem to be gaining ground, especially in the United States. A recent poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicates that 42 percent of Americans accept the biblical account of creation, while 64 percent said they support the idea of schools teaching creationism and evolution.
You can't just throw the word "evolution" into a theory and say it's associated with another. This so-called "Cosmic evolution" shares no similar observations of evidence with human evolution.
That would be Dr. Kent Hovind PhD. Care to debate Dr. Hovind, while I can't arrange it, I know someone who can.
Lie. These are the amino acid sequences for cytochrome c, taken from the National Center for Bioinformatics database. Macaca mulatta is the rhesus monkey.
Homo sapiens: 1 mgdvekgkki fimkcsqcht vekggkhktg pnlhglfgrk igqapgysyt Macaca mulatta: 1 -gdvekgkki fimkcsqcht vekggkhktg pnlhglfgrk tgqapgysyt Homo sapiens: 51 aanknkgiiw g-edtlmeyle npkkyipgtk mifvgikkke eradliaylk katne Macaca mulatta: 51 aanknkgitw gvedtlmeyle npkkyipgtk mifvgikkke eradliaylk katneDo those look 1% related to you?
--- This is what we call circular logic. You claim people in New Orleans acted worse than people in Biloxi because they're not Christian, and then when it turns out there are a much higher percentage of Christians in Louisiana than Mississippi, you claim you can tell they're not Christian because of the way they behaved! ---
Come on... I was speaking English..keep up with me here!
Do I have to type it out slowly???
P e o p l e w h o c l a i m t o b e C h r i s t i a n a r e n o t n e c e s s e c a r i l y C h r i s t i a n.
Simply citing some statistic and assuming it is true, is your problem, not mine.
"entropy" is also a word. Why don't you explain which of the half-dozen entropys you think disproves evolution.
Ah, so god needs to fend off microbes and bacteria as well? Must be some pretty powerful microbes to be able to take down god.
PS, if Hebrews 9:27 is right, you might want to get used to capitalizing that "G" in God.
Or not.
Now commoon, let's start by having yu define exactly what type of evolution you want to discuss. You say evolution, I come back with cosmic evolution and you say, no, not that one, well which one of the six are we going to discuss?
Hey, before someone put up the six using Jack Chix literature, did you even know there were six?
It's called the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy. You can't legitimately argue that people do X because they're Christian, and when they don't do X, claim that because they don't do X, they're not Christian.
I mean, this is grade school logic.
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