So what? Yes, so what. You seem to have forgotten that this blog is supposed to be about the pros & cons of support for MACROEVOLUTION (by the way, if you choose to visit only one website in researching the arguments against evo, do try the site which this particular blog originated/“evolved” from, namely, Creation-Evolution Headlines
http://creationsafaris.com/crev200809.htm ).
Forget about showing the irrefutable evidence for bacteria becoming Barry Bonds (over many, many years, of course). The evolutionists aren’t even in agreement on the bacterial ancestry of mitochondria and chloroplasts (contrary to your apparent certainty). But they have their hunches…
[“Their ancestry is not fully understood, but, according to the endosymbiotic theory, mitochondria are descended from ancient bacteria, which were engulfed by the ancestors of eukaryotic cells more than a billion years ago.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiotic_theory ]
And why all this arcane stuff about endogenous retroviral sequences, their vestiges, and what they mean? Why not pick something us slower people can better relate to, like eye sight. You know, like “Many different types of animals have eye balls, hence they must have a common ancestor which had eye balls!” Unless you are of a separate denomination of the evo faith which believes in convergent evolution. As in, “No, common eye balls don’t mean common ancestry. The eye balls mutated into existence at different times all over the animal kingdom. Eyes weren’t passed down from a common ancestor, they were added on later in already differentiated animal kinds.”
Take your pick of stories, I suppose.
Speaking of seeing, the last I knew, the best the evolutionism establishment has come up with on the origin of eye sight is….a sun-sensitive patch of skin. That’s right. A bit of skin gets tickled pink by the sun, notices some unidentified environmental advantage from this “stress”, and then really goes on a roll. It keeps mutating in a certain direction until – Voila! – the first eyeball (with its cornea, retina, pupil, aqueous humor, rods, cones, and optic nerve with just the right connection points) greets the world. (And probably sheds a tear of joy!)
I’m not kidding. This is the best they’ve come up with.
I bet you didn’t realize a sunburn could have such long-term advantages.
I’m just waiting for the sunscreen manufacturers to catch on. I can envision the new label on a tube of Coppertone: “Apply liberally over all exposed areas of skin. Warning: if any area of your skin is left unprotected, it may end up LOOKING BACK at you!”
He works in abiogenesis, which is a favorite Creationist tactic (analogous to decrying the Big Bang theory when discussing gravity), but the central question is “Is the lay public really too dense for the deeper knowledge of how evolution works?”
HOW EVOLUTION WORKS!!!
Well it works through natural selection of genetic variation. Genetic variation is the result of mutation. Bacteria under stress increase their mutation rate, thus increasing the genetic variation that selection can act upon.
If you are, according to yourself, too “slow” to follow the argument then I guess you denser than the average “lay public” because the average “lay public” is quite able to understand evolution through natural selection of genetic variation if it is explained to them and they do not have a philosophical objection to even considering the data.