[GodGunsGuts]

Creationist response:

Solar radiation is also just the right energy for the transitions in rhodopsin in our retinas that allow us to see the green plants. The fine-tuning is observational fact; the evolutionary speculation is superstition. That’s what we should call it. Superstition is believing something totally without evidence, like believing a rabbit’s foot will bring good luck. Actually, one could adduce evidence selectively in favor of a superstition, and that is what evolutionists do. A child has a lucky day and thinks it proves the rabbit’s foot worked (selectively ignoring the owie of the day). An evolutionist sees the success of photosynthesis and thinks evolution was responsible. What’s the difference? Dyson and Raven may envision exotic bacteria around an M-star with multiple stages of photosynthesis to harvest infrared light using black, purple and mauve pigments, but that is illusion. [light bulb] Hey; that gives us an opportunity to coin a new word to describe Darwin’s brand of science, the result of superstitiously speculating in the absence of evidence: ev-illusion...

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http://creationsafaris.com/crev200707.htm#20070727b

[GodGunsGuts]

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[GOP Poet]

Well, well. This little discovery could put quite a little crimp in Algore’s falling sky. If we can breed new light and energy then what the heck is going to get the guy attention now? Poor Al. His timing is just awful.

[freekitty]

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[djf]

IIRC, Yellowstone springs are also where they discovered Thermus Aquaticus.

A remarkable bacteria that can live in water almost 180 degrees hot, also yields TAQ polymerase, the enzyme that allows PCR DNA technology.

That’s why many older cases have been solved if they had degraded or insufficient DNA samples to test. With taq polymerase, you can make quarts of the stuff if you want to.

[marsh_of_mists]

I have a question, if you don’t mind. Over the course of time, various species, genuses, and phyla become extinct, correct? So if new species aren’t also evolving into being at the same time, wouldn’t the number of species constantly be decreasing until we had only a few left? What is the creationist response to this dilemma?

[Jack Hammer]

Nothing new. The bacteria in the US Capitol have been transforming light into gas, and generating darkness, for a century or more.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

This should be developed so that we can shake some of the dependence on middle eastern oil. Then we can tell the saudis to go pound sand since they will have less money to give to terrorists.

[G8 Diplomat]

I was just in Yellowstone! Too bad I didn’t see this earlier, lol