[ECM]

Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...what's that? You can't? Oh...

*Note: feel free to attack me Darwin-bots, but I'm not buying (and the usual disclaimer: I am not pro-creationism.)

[Coyoteman]

Darwin-bots...

That is a pretty rude greeting to fellow freepers with whom you may simply disagree.

You want macro-evolution? Here are some examples. I assume you will reject them, but others may find them more acceptable.

Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html

[NonLinear]

This cross-generational partnership is made possible, Thornton explained, by the similarity in form between aldosterone and the ancient hormone that once partnered with the receptor.

"The story is basically that a new hormone evolved later and exploited a receptor that had a different function previously to take part in a new partnership," said Thornton.

So a hormone-receptor pair evolved because the hormone can bind with the receptor of a previous hormone-receptor pair.

And so that hormone-receptor pair must have evolved because the earlier hormone can bind with the receptor of a previous hormone-receptor pair.

"Why, it's turtles all the way down, of course."

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"*Note: feel free to attack me Darwin-bots, but I'm not buying (and the usual disclaimer: I am not pro-creationism.)"

Such a lovely personality.

[muir_redwoods]

"Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...what's that? You can't? Oh... "

I'll be happy to educate you. Tuition is $20K a semester. I'll get back to you when your check clears.

[Filo]

Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...

Just show me planetary formation in a lab. Just show me the big bang in a lab. Just show me. . .

Well, anything you don't want to believe in, really.

Serious cop out, but what the heck, eh?

[VadeRetro]

You seem unusually defensive for someone who's in the thread on post 2. Especially when you claim to have no preordained issues.

[spinestein]

[Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...what's that? You can't? Oh..]



I know what you mean. That's the same reason I don't believe that the sun and other stars exist. They are probably just little balls of flame floating in our atmosphere just a few hundred feet up, and the idea that they're much larger than the Earth and powered by multi-million degree fusion is just arrogant atheist scientists' fantasy.

[BagelFace]

Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...what's that? You can't? Oh... *Note: feel free to attack me Darwin-bots, but I'm not buying (and the usual disclaimer: I am not pro-creationism.)

Calling attention to oneself with mindless drivel... is definitely NOT the Darwinian way to happiness and success. Instead, might I suggest throwing a dinner party for your friends? There is a lovely recipe for pastry puffs in the "downhome cooking" thread.

[Ichneumon]

Well, just show me macro-evolution in a lab and I'll sign right up...

...he says, and then a few sentences later in the same post warns that he's "not buying", which sounds like "I don't care what evidence there is, I've decided in advance to reject it."

what's that? You can't? Oh...

What's that, you *presume* the answer in advance? Ah, I hear the sound of a mind slamming shut.

Hint: There are many more ways to demonstrate the validity of a process beyond "showing it to you in a lab".

Hint #2: We can't recreate the Hawaiian Islands in a lab, either, but we can still verify the processes by which they formed, beyond any reasonable doubt.

This "show it to me in a lab" canard is a frequent cheap excuse for "I'll believe what I want to believe, whatever the evidence overwhelmingly indicates" based on either a) a complete ignorance of how science validates things, or b) a purposely dishonest attempt to ask for something the questioner knows is unworkable EVEN IF THE PROPOSITION IS TRUE and verifiable by other methods.

*Note: feel free to attack me Darwin-bots, but I'm not buying

Funny, *you're* the first one to issue an attack on this thread (e.g. "Darwin-bots").

And I have no interest in attacking you. I feel sorry for you.

(and the usual disclaimer: I am not pro-creationism.)

So your mind is equally closed in every direction?