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To: Coyoteman
In short, order from disorder happens on earth all the time.

Wow, really? I thought the scientific method contained a body of evidence and examples that created a preponderance of evidence. Got ANY examples?

The only processes necessary for evolution to occur are reproduction, heritable variation, and selection.

Gee, well, once again, got a problem there friend. Darwin's theory of evolution requires a jump from one species to another. I'd ask you again for evidence of this but its highly unlikely you have any. This is something that has never been evidenced or proved in the scientific community.

How about another reference?

Dr John Ross of Harvard University states: … there are no known violations of the second law of thermodynamics. Ordinarily the second law is stated for isolated systems, but the second law applies equally well to open systems. … There is somehow associated with the field of far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics the notion that the second law of thermodynamics fails for such systems. It is important to make sure that this error does not perpetuate itself. (John Ross, Chemical and Engineering News, July 7, 1980, p. 40; cited in Duane Gish, Creation Scientists Answer their Critics Institute for Creation Research, 1993. Return to text.)

You and many others (myself included until I learned and thought my way out) have been duped by myths the liberals been teaching as fact in school for decades (evolution and Keynesian economic theories being just a couple of examples).

24 posted on 02/09/2008 4:02:07 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216
>>>In short, order from disorder happens on earth all the time.

Wow, really? I thought the scientific method contained a body of evidence and examples that created a preponderance of evidence. Got ANY examples?


26 posted on 02/09/2008 4:06:48 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: Jim 0216
Darwin's theory of evolution requires a jump from one species to another. I'd ask you again for evidence of this but its highly unlikely you have any. This is something that has never been evidenced or proved in the scientific community.

That's another easy one. Speciation has been observed on any number of occasions. How about if I provide an example of speciation that has all of the transitionals (that creationists claim do not exist) still in place?

Ring species provide unusual and valuable situations in which we can observe two species and the intermediate forms connecting them. In a ring species:

A ring species, therefore, is a ring of populations in which there is only one place where two distinct species meet. Ernst Mayr called ring species "the perfect demonstration of speciation" because they show a range of intermediate forms between two species. They allow us to use variation in space to infer how changes occurred over time. This approach is especially powerful when we can reconstruct the biogeographical history of a ring species, as has been done in two cases. Source

Additional information from the same source (footnotes omitted and emphasis added):

Ensatina salamanders

One well-studied ring species consists of salamanders in the Ensatina eschscholtzii group, distributed in mountains along the west coast of North America. In 1949, Robert Stebbins described a fascinating pattern of geographical variation in these salamanders:

Stebbins thought that this situation arose when an ancestral population of salamanders, in northern California, expanded southward along two fronts, one down the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the other down the coastal mountains. The two groups gradually became different as they moved south. When they met again in southern California, the two expanding fronts were so different that they rarely interbred, and were therefore different species. More recently, a team of researchers led by David Wake has examined genetic relationships among salamander populations using DNA sequences and other molecular traits, and the genetic evidence has supported Stebbins' hypothesis. The geographical variation, when combined with the inferred history revealed by the molecular traits, allows us to envision the small steps by which a single ancestral species in the north gave rise through evolutionary divergence to two species in southern California.

You are batting .000 so far. Try again?

34 posted on 02/09/2008 5:06:59 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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