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To: GodGunsGuts

No GGG.

In order to REFUTE an argument, you must be able to STATE the argument, and where it went wrong.

And how would you know the Creationist argument was “far superior” to the common descent argument if you don’t even know what the common descent argument is and your Creationist “argument” doesn’t even address the issue?

You are unable to address the issue, because as I have maintained from the beginning, you don’t even understand the issue.

You claim to have refuted an argument you do not even understand.


248 posted on 07/15/2009 10:41:27 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream

==In order to REFUTE an argument, you must be able to STATE the argument, and where it went wrong.

I gave you a summary of why the religious assumptions of the Temple of Darwin with respect to ERVs and common descent are completely bogus, and why the Creation/ID argument is far superior. Here they are again, word for word:

What a laugh, the first time I crossed paths with your Darwin-adled arguments, you brought up ERVs as the supposed best evidence of common descent. I demonstrated that ERVs are better explained by common DESIGN back then, and I have continued to update my argument ever since.

You, on the other hand, continue to cling to the same outdated Temple of Darwin ERV arguments, even though the most recent studies demonstrate that almost the entire genome is functional (not to mention the specific and increasingly largescale functions of ERVs that continue to be identified), thus rendering your dumb-dumb fossil/”junk” ERV arguments moot.

And lets not forget the Temple of Darwin argument that ERVs are ancient remnants of previous exogenous retrovirus infections. Your Evo co-religionists cannot support this, they simply assume it without evidence. The creation argument of course makes much better sense. Namely, that ERVs are conserved because they were likely designed into our genomes at the time of creation to pick up the genetic elements to escape the genome, to become retroviruses that non-randomly insert themselves into genomes to facilitate genetic diversity both within and between species, and perhaps even to provide specific genetic information for organisms to better adapt to particular environments.

OK Dreamer, now it’s your turn. Why don’t you start by describing in YOUR OWN WORDS why ERVs are one of the “strongest arguments” for common descent.


253 posted on 07/15/2009 12:20:19 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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