Posted on 09/28/2005 4:11:22 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
That's true of most non-Western places (why?) and is less true of ancient Israel than those nations that surrounded it.
Anyway blasphemy has a completely different meaning than doubt.
Your illustration has no basis in reality. It is nothing more than wild speculation.
You may want to think it is the same, but it isn't. You are comparing biology to light waves. They are not the same. More wild speculation.
Each dot represents an organism and the distance between organisms is how related they are. In reality organisms have many more than 2 features, some of them are discrete features rather than continuous ones, and some animals have features that other's don't. So there is no one single easy way of clustering them. You could compare physical features, or DNA, or behaviour, or a mix of all of these. The end goal is the same - to get a list of clusters which organisms fall into.
For example even though tigers and lions can interbreed, they fall into two distinct clusters and so are treated as seperate species.
Populations change over time and therefore the clusters move:
Evolution is about how the shape and position of clusters changes over time.
Eventually a cluster representing a species could have moved far enough through feature space that it is considered that a speciation event has occured:
This is because the old population and new population are far enough apart that they would be considered seperate clusters if they co-existed at the same time. This is just one method of speciation.
Another method involves a cluster growing in size so that organisms on either side are very far apart, and possibly may not be able to even interbreed (like in ring species). All that is needed is for the middle organisms to disapear which would mean two seperate smaller clusters instead of one larger cluster:
You claimed: It would have to occur from one generation to the next. the reality is that for speciation to be true, the offspring of on set of parents would have to be a different species
My illustration showed why your claim was wrong. It doesn't have to happen like you said. It can happen gradually.
Nice diagram.
Excuse me, but I teach this stuff. How much background do you have?
Teach at what level? Teach about light waves, biology, physic, chemistry, or biochemistry?
Exactly what substantive relationship do you see between visible light spectrum and evolution?
College.
General Biology, Botany, Biology for non-science majors (my favorite, great seeing their eyes light up when they "get it"), Human Anatomy... plus museum associated popular science classes, plus grad classes etc.
Your turn, you didn't answer my question about your background.
You haven't explained why. You simply claim that you would.
I see you are obviously not in the same league as Behe. Seems to me you have rather mediocre credentials.
As for me, letus just say my IQ is more than three standard deviations above average; have superior skills in logic, and can analyze and make senxe of lots of information. Also have a PhD in recognizing B.S., such as when some mediocre college instructor (you didn't say you were a phD or professor, or even asst. professor) tries to equate the visible light spectrum with evolution.
BTW, what exactly is the relationship between evolution/biology and the visible light spectrum?
IOW you have no useful background in the biological sciences.
You also seem not to recognize an analogy when you see it.
I gave you enough information to document my ability to speak authoritatively on evolution. I give limited personal information on the internet and will, under no circumstances, document a degree or school.
I'm glad you are happy with your IQ.
So, ummm, how's that lawsuit going that you were loudly bragging was going to bring down the WA State government?
i recognize analogies. I also know when someone misuses them, such as comparing the visible spectrum to evolution, like you tried to do.
I gave you enough information to document my ability to speak authoritatively on evolution. I give limited personal information on the internet and will, under no circumstances, document a degree or school.
I didn't ask for the name of a school, and I hardly see how stating your level of education would be revealing anything. Probably have a MS, at best, and teach at some CC or JC.
Actually, it's going quite well. There are some interesting thiongs that will be happening in the next month or two. Thanks for asking.
Well, good for you if anything finally comes of that. But meanwhile you're acting like a wiggly defense lawyer on creation, and it's causing the barrenness of the position you're defending to be all the more apparent.
...I am also honest enough to admit that believe in ID/creation requires an element of faith as well; but there is substantial evidence for it.On the other hand, I would also say that a belief in the ToE also requires a degree of faith. If there are 'gaps' in the ToE, some faith must be present.
It's my personal opinion that belief in evolution requires more faith than in ID/creation, but I can see where those on the evolution side might think the opposite. ...
You and I obviously disagree in the evolution v. ID/creation debate, I don't think it would be fair to say I am being intellectually dishonest.
That's fine, but on these threads you're just sitting there saying "speculation!" every tine someone shows you an analogy or piece of evidence for evolution. It's like you're whipping out a cross & holding it up to the screen while you chant "lalalalalalalaicanthearyoulalalalalala". You're agressively trying not to comprehend what's before you. Whether or not that means you're being intellectully dishonest I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Sorry that you neither understand the analogy nor are willing to consider there might be something here to learn.
Oh, and I don't get goaded. You've got all the personal information I am willing to give.
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