Posted on 02/24/2009 6:37:38 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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The tree-of-life concept was absolutely central to Darwin's thinking, equal in importance to natural selection...Without it the theory of evolution would never have happened. The tree also helped carry the day for evolution.
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For much of the past 150 years, biology has largely concerned itself with filling in the details of the tree. "For a long time the holy grail was to build a tree of life," says Eric Bapteste, an evolutionary biologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France. A few years ago it looked as though the grail was within reach. But today the project lies in tatters, torn to pieces by an onslaught of negative evidence. Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded. "We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality," says Bapteste. That bombshell has even persuaded some that our fundamental view of biology needs to change...
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent that it’s been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future.”
Dr. Emeritus
Malcolm Muggeridge
The Temple of Darwinistic Materialism is a religion, not science. That is what people need to wake up to, especially conservative Christians!
“Scientists concede that their most cherished theories are based on embarrassingly few fossil fragments and that huge gaps exist in the fossil record.”
Dr. Time Magazine
Nov. 7, 1977
Same school as the huckster got his DR. at probably. LOL
Dr. Emeritus
Malcolm Muggeridge ... SOCIALIST.
But what if species also routinely swapped genetic material with other species, or hybridised with them? ....We now know that this is exactly what happens.
This is even more of a problem than the tree of life for those who treat the Bible as a science book.
But then you could not attack it with a simple lie.
No such animal.
I love that guy. Here’s another one of my favorites by him. If nothing else, it definitely sums up the anti-Creationist/ID/Palin RINOs who run the Republican Party right now:
“A ruling Class which is on the run, as ours is, is capable of every fatuity. It makes the wrong decisions, chooses the wrong people, and is unable to recognize its enemies-if it does not actually prefer them to its friends.”
MALCOM MUGGERIDGE, Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes.
I gotta go.
Need to get a bigger hook and heavier test line.
“A ruling Class which is on the run, as ours is, is capable of every fatuity. It makes the wrong decisions, chooses the wrong people, and is unable to recognize its enemies-if it does not actually prefer them to its friends.”
MALCOM MUGGERIDGE, SOCIALIST Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes.
And a little education ...
There was/is a study of the subject on discovery a little while back, showed that a chicken had a tail.
“A ruling Class which is on the run, as ours is, is capable of every fatuity. It makes the wrong decisions, chooses the wrong people, and is unable to recognize its enemies-if it does not actually prefer them to its friends.”
MALCOM MUGGERIDGE, Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes.
FR is not the place to go around saying that you love socialists and post their anti-capitalist quotes. You might just lose some credibility?
BINGO!@!!
So now you just want to ignore your misrepresentation of the credentials of the lawyer you sourced?
Do you claim it was a simple mistake?
Or are we to assume that you were trying to “pull a fast one”?
Why do you seem to feel the need to lie about the education background of the lawyers you source for their views on the state of science?
But evidently there is enough interest to generate hundreds of comments pro,con, in between, which is what a forum does.
If you'll let me know who forcing you to pay attention to these forums I will happily ask them to stop so you won't be distracted from the cosmically/comically important political tripe of the day such as the death of Bill Clinton's cat.
Oh, I know it was a different tree. I meant the tree of life in Genesis (Genesis 3:24).
The thing I try to figure out is the WHY.
I have my own thoughts on it, but I’m curious of yours.
Why is it so important to evolutionists to be correct?
You have no idea what you’re talking about. MALCOM MUGGERIDGE began as a socialist, converted to Christianity, and then became a staunch conservative and anti-communist.
I know you know. I was just using your comment as an opportunity to bring up the creationist prediction re: the Orchard of Life :o)
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