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Intelligent Design Grounded in Science
CBN ^ | November 2005 | By Gailon Totheroh

Posted on 11/13/2005 6:07:54 AM PST by NYer

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To: moog
That Homo hablilis (D) skull is from a goa 'uld or a tokra operative I think.

Sorry, I don't catch the reference.

201 posted on 11/13/2005 11:50:32 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Liberty Wins
"FAKE OR A HOAX"

Originally, that was "hoax or a mistake." Guess you can tell which way my suspicions are running.

202 posted on 11/13/2005 11:52:08 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Coyoteman

Sorry, I don't catch the reference.

The shiny eyes...


203 posted on 11/13/2005 11:52:24 AM PST by moog
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To: TAdams8591

it=evolution


204 posted on 11/13/2005 11:53:16 AM PST by TAdams8591 (Students deserve a choice!)
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To: moog
That Homo hablilis (D) skull is from a goa 'uld or a tokra operative I think.

Excellent observation. ;-)

205 posted on 11/13/2005 11:54:50 AM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter

Excellent observation. ;-)

Thank you, though I have to wonder who the new hosts were:).


206 posted on 11/13/2005 11:56:13 AM PST by moog
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To: Ichneumon
"The Modern World" is a known liberal comic. That proves that evolution is false.

</creationist mde>
207 posted on 11/13/2005 11:56:28 AM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: VadeRetro

Australopithecines are considered by many to be hominids because they are believed to have been bipedal and thus walked upright.

However, not everybody believes they walked upright. Leakey has been quoted as saying "the Australopithecines were long-armed short-legged knuckle-walkers, similar to existing African apes".

Still a chimp. What do you think?


208 posted on 11/13/2005 11:57:56 AM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: VadeRetro
Added two more rows at the bottom:

Evolution Troll's Toolkit
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B
C
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1 You have no evidence Stalin materialist I never said that!
2 Hillary homosexual Piltdown Man You're no Christian!
3 liberal science God-hater government grants What are you afraid of?
4 Hitler You have no proof communist 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
5 atheist nazi Pol Pot gaps in fossil record
6 prove the origin of life Christian-bashing Darwin worship I'm not [.....], you are!
7 arrogant jerk take your meds [any scripture passage] You're foaming at the mouth
8 It's only a theory! Were you there? Noah's Ark macro-evolution is impossible
9 It's all speculation! [quote any creationist website] Darwin leads to Marxism My granddaddy was no ape
10 Stop the censorship! That's a "just so" story! Darwin was a racist the odds are against evolution

209 posted on 11/13/2005 11:58:19 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Expect no response if you're a troll, lunatic, retard, or incurable ignoramus.)
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To: Leto
Take a look at Stan Tenen's web site http://www.meru.org/. His theory is that God was even smarter than that. He embedded the answer to the question of the universe in the first few letters of Genesis, in Hebrew. Even the letters themselves and the way they are formed has significance. The story that is also conveyed by the words is simple enough to be handed down from generation to generation until we had advanced enough to understand it. Stan has found evidence that we were smart enough about 200 years ago, but the knowledge was lost again. The beauty of God's plan is that this knowledge is encapsulated in a vessel that will survive the ages.
210 posted on 11/13/2005 12:01:05 PM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: moog
Thank you, though I have to wonder who the new hosts were:).

Ted Kennedy, perhaps?

211 posted on 11/13/2005 12:09:25 PM PST by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Liberty Wins; moog; King Prout; PatrickHenry
The hypotheses of Erasmus Darwin was replaced by lamarckism, which was replaced by Darwinism, which was replaced by neo-darwinism, which undoubtedly will be replaced by something else, and maybe not in our lifetime.

...and the cartoonish misrepresentations of science march on...

No, sorry, you have grossly distorted the actual history of evolutionary biology.

The primary distortion is the common creationist misrepresentation which pretends that every so many years, science has to completely throw out old theories and "replace" them with entirely new ones, and that all you have to do is wait for current theories to be found "wrong" as well. This is false.

Instead, what happens the great majority of the time is that older versions of theories are *augmented* with new refinements, which make them continually more complete and accurate than ever.

Let's take your distortion as an example:

The hypotheses of Erasmus Darwin

Yes, Erasmus Darwin was one of the early scientists who conceived of an evolutionary origin of species from one or more first forms, instead of "separate creation" for each species or "kind". However, this was just an idea and he suggested no specific mechanisms for this notion, it hardly rose even to the level of "hypothesis" in the scientific sense. In 1802 he wrote the verse:

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.
This is *still* an accurate (and poetic) description of modern evolutionary biology's position on the rise of modern life forms from microscopic beginnings ("spheric glass" refers to early microscope lenses). So it's disingenuous for you to say it has been "replaced" by anything which came afterwards.

was replaced by lamarckism,

Wrong. Even Lamarck's attempts to envision a mechanism by which evolution might proceed was no "replacement" for Erasmus Darwin's idea of common descent via modification, it was a hypothesis about how that might have occurred.

which was replaced by Darwinism,

Wrong again. You make it sound as if Lamarckism had been widely adopted as the accepted theory of evolution, and then Darwin's explanation came along and kicked it out. This is not the case. Lamarckism -- and indeed the concept of evolutionary common descent in general -- was widely discussed and debated in the early 1800's, but had never been accepted as the dominant paradigm.

Even if it had, "Darwinism" would not have been a subsequent "replacement" of Lamarckism, it would have been a modification of only one of its tenets. Lamarck actually got most of his hypothesis correct. The place where he went astray was to propose that variation arose within individuals (i.e. acquired during their lifetimes) and then passed on to their children. Darwin correctly held that instead variation is born into individuals as variations which *depart* from that of their parents. The rest of the Lamarckian model was and still is accurate.

which was replaced by neo-darwinism,

This is the biggest lie in your account. Neo-Darwinism in no way "replaces" original Darwinism, it *expands* on it by adding subsequent discoveries which were unknown in Darwin's time, such as the behavior of DNA -- DNA was discovered much later. But all this subsequent addition of knowledge to the original core of Darwin's theory has only *validated* Darwin, not refuted or replaced him. I can't think of a single thing which Darwin put into "Origin of Species" which has actually had to be "replaced".

Indeed, offhand I can think of only one idea he had that turned out to be mistaken, and even that was still half right. He postulated that the brilliant colors of male butterflies was shaped via sexual selection by female butterflies. Actually, research has discovered that it *is* due to sexual selection, but by other *male* butterflies (it's how they recognize each other and is what triggers their territorial fight response in order to protect their access to females). Butterfly coloration (as Darwin realized) is also shaped by other factors, of course, such as predator recognition, protective camouflage, warning colors, etc. But female butterflies for the most part will "mate" with anything which does the "mating dance" in the right way and has the right pheremones.

which undoubtedly will be replaced by something else, and maybe not in our lifetime.

Dream on. Evolutionary biology will no doubt add even more to its body of knowledge, and some portions of it will be adjusted accordingly, but it is so extremely and overwhelmingly supported by such massive volumes of evidence and research that the odds of it actually being "replaced" in any large part are quite close to zero. Not even Darwin's original writings have needed "replacing" yet, they have held up incredibly well for a 150-year old theory.

In contrast, Newton's Laws of Motion have needed extensive modification and "special case" exceptions to account for relativity and quantum physics. And even then, this actually refutes the creationist notion of science having to "clean house" and throw out old accepted theories -- while Newton's Laws have had to be augmented with new knowledge about relativity and QM, they were never "replaced" or "thrown out" or found to be "wrong" in the sense of 100% incorrect. Newton's Laws are *still* correct for the appropriate applications (i.e. objects and speeds on the human scale).

212 posted on 11/13/2005 12:10:27 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: scripter

Ted Kennedy, perhaps?

Probably. Though I think if you look close enough on Halloween, Hillary.......AAAAAAAAAAAH:)


213 posted on 11/13/2005 12:14:16 PM PST by moog
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To: Ichneumon

My, you're touchy today.


214 posted on 11/13/2005 12:20:07 PM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: edsheppa
From http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/CompLexicon/godel.html

In 1931 the mathematician and logician Kurt Godel proved that within a formal system questions exist that are neither provable nor disprovable on the basis of the axioms that define the system. This is known as Godel's Undecidability Theorem. He also showed that in a sufficiently rich formal system in which decidability of all questions is required, there will be contradictory statements. This is known as his Incompleteness Theorem. In establishing these theorems Godel showed that there are problems that cannot be solved by any set of rules or procedures; instead for these problems one must always extend the set of axioms. This disproved a common belief at the time that the different branches of mathematics could be integrated and placed on a single logical foundation.

Alan Turing later provided a constructive interpretation of Godel's results by placing them on an algorithmic foundation: There are numbers and functions that cannot be computed by any logical machine.

More recently, Gregory Chaitin, a mathematician working at IBM, has stressed that Godel's and Turing's results set fundamental limits on mathematics.

These results, along with quantum uncertainty and the unpredictability of determinstic (chaotic) systems, form a core set of limitations to scientific knowledge that have only come to be appreciated during this century.

215 posted on 11/13/2005 12:21:48 PM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: Ichneumon
Yes, science gets added on and modified all the time.

But female butterflies for the most part will "mate" with anything which does the "mating dance" in the right way and has the right pheremones.

And I thought they thought I was a flower:).

216 posted on 11/13/2005 12:22:53 PM PST by moog
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To: Ichneumon
I felt like posting something on those lines, but as usual you've eloquently done it far better than I would have. And although I felt it likely that Darwin would have recognised almost the entire modern synthesis it is nice to have that confirmed by a professional.

Pass a hat round "The Galapagos Finch", and be generous, everyone.

217 posted on 11/13/2005 12:24:56 PM PST by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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To: SubMareener
His theory is that God was even smarter than that. He embedded the answer to the question of the universe in the first few letters of Genesis, in Hebrew.

It says "42", I take it?

218 posted on 11/13/2005 12:25:09 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Liberty Wins
My, you're touchy today.

Not at all. I just don't like to see disinformation spread.

219 posted on 11/13/2005 12:26:44 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon

How about Levi's?


220 posted on 11/13/2005 12:27:26 PM PST by moog
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