Posted on 10/02/2009 8:27:50 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Darwin's Dilemma Los Angeles Premiere Will Mark 150th Anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species with Focus on Controversy over Evolution and Intelligent Design
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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Highlighting the continuing controversy over the origins of life on earth, the American Freedom Alliance will premiere “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Explosion” at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sunday October 25 at 7:00 pm. The event will feature a panel discussion with filmmakers and leading...
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Mark you’re calendars if you live in California :o)
Started laughing right there and couldn't finish the story.
Posting more cartoons and pretty pictures does not win arguments. At least come up with new ones.
Ira- Good one!
Exactly.
LOL...That was the cover of New Scientist magazine! According to them, DARWIN WAS WRONG about his main prediction...his so-called “tree of life”...and they hacked it down, just in time for his birthday...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
Uh-oh, Ira has invoked the left-wing, racist, anti-semitic, anti-science, global warming alarmists over at National Geographic. Be afraid, be very afraid...LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Best you can do (relentlessly) is attack the messenger.
That’s pretty sad, even for you.
Thanks for the ping!
The fallacy of attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness of the argument. Often the argument is characterized simply as a personal attack.
1. The personal attack is also often termed an "ad personem argument": the statement or argument at issue is dropped from consideration or is ignored, and the locutor's character or circumstances are used to influence opinion.
2. The fallacy draws its appeal from the technique of "getting personal." The assumption is that what the locutor is saying is entirely or partially dictated by his character or special circumstances and so should be disregarded.
Credit Darwin’s towering genius. No mind ran so freely, so widely or so freshly over the hills and vales of existence. But there’s a limit to how much credit is reasonable. Parking evolution with Charles Darwin overlooks the limits of his time and all subsequent progress……………..
Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk, discovered that in pea plants inheritance of individual traits followed patterns. Superiors burned his papers posthumously in 1884. Not until Mendel’s rediscovered “genetics” met Darwin’s natural selection in the “modern synthesis” of the 1920s did science take a giant step toward understanding evolutionary mechanics. Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick bestowed the next leap: DNA, the structure and mechanism of variation and inheritance.
Darwin’s intellect, humility (“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance”) and prescience astonish more as scientists clarify, in detail he never imagined, how much he got right.
Only when we fully acknowledge the subsequent century and a half of value added can we really appreciate both Darwin’s genius and the fact that evolution is life’s driving force, with or without Darwin.
I would advise that you read the article prior to posting it as a rebuttal; otherwise you just might come out looking rather foolish
“Science was primitive in Darwin’s day. Ships had no engines. Not until 1842, six years after Darwin’s Beagle voyage, did Richard Owen coin the term “dinosaur.”
How can that be. I thought you said that dinosaurs were in the bible?
Posting more cartoons and pretty pictures does not win arguments. At least come up with new ones.
Ira- Good one!
I don’t know who is more pathetic...the liberals that project, the ones that knockdown strawmen, or the ones that manage a little bit of all of it and arrogantly and hypocritically set up rules for everyone else, then ignore them for themselves.
You’re so self-absorbed you can’t see this in your post wacka...
Congratulating Ira for his projecto-pretty picture cartoon, after getting soreheaded with GGG when it’s obvious you have no ability to stand up to the heat in the kitchen.
Poor wittle whiny wiberals.
Oh...and I like the...”I could only read just so far” excuse...
well of course...that way they won’t have to actually address the really hard sciency thingys like this:
“Released by Illustra Media, “Darwin’s Dilemma” probes one of the great mysteries of science - the Cambrian explosion, when, as the fossil record reveals, complex animals first appeared on earth fully formed, without evidence of any evolutionary ancestors. Having envisioned the evolution of life through a multitude of small, undirected steps, Darwin viewed this as an inexplicable mystery, but the fossil record reveals no such pattern of gradual development. Instead, early in the Cambrian period, compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletons burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere”.
Nice way to slip in another plug. I give it about as much concern as Michael Moore’s new turd.
I told GGG to get some new cartoons. He keeps spamming us with the same old tired one.
I told GGG to get some new cartoons. He keeps spamming us with the same old tired one.
But the same old tired failed arguments deserve the same old cartoon!
Get a new schtick other than “that’s a religious attack on science” twaddle and someone might...
well nevermind.
No one believes you’re anything other than a whining, hopeless, uncompromising cultist liberal anyway. ;)
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