[GodGunsGuts]

For the record, this post is being posted in News/Activism by the express permission of Jim Robinson, founder and owner of Free Republic:

“Debate on church doctrine and or threads on specific religious matters may be best posted in the religion forum, but the defense of religious freedom, especially against those who wish to deprive us of same belongs front and center on FR...They banned God and prayer and creationism from public schools and public places, but I’ll be damned if they’re gonna ban Him or it from FR!”

—Jim Robinson

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203455/posts?page=78#78

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Longhair_and_Leather]

Global warming “scientists” and evo “scientists”...one and the same.

[Spike Knotts]

You can prove evolution is a lie in one sentence. I won’t stick to just one sentence, but you could if you weren’t given to talking too much.

It is a random process, right? Mutations and selective breeding over countless years.

So where are all of evolution’s failures(that’s the one sentence, btw)? Show me the fossil of just one “impossible creature.” There should be an entire branch of science dedicated to them. For every random success...there should be a billion, a trillion, a gajillion failures.

[grey_whiskers]

(Hey, cool! Prandtl-Glauert condensation!)

But, in case you think there were no blind alleys:

Cheers!

[metmom]

Yet there is no evidence that eighteen-winged dragonflies ever existed. There are lots of dragonflies in the fossil record, but none of them remotely resemble this fictitious creature.

No matter. In what Michael Shermer calls “the best book ever written on the subject,” Donald Prothero simply makes up whatever evidence he wants.

So now they've taken to writing science fiction to support the ToE? They actually have to make up imaginary animals to justify it?

This is desperation....

[Aliska]

"Crick and Orgel wrote in their book 'Life Itself,' "an honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."

Crick is one of my scientific heroes. Now I have lots of new leads to pursue, find I'm not alone, and other scientists question it as well, but some of this work may turn out to be outdated.

First I'll have to figure out who came up with that quote, got it from an evolution vs. creationism debate on youtube.

Some FReepers act like you're ignorant if you don't accept evolution unquestioningly which seems to be the dominating thought out there.

[ColdWater]

Stephen Meyer, historian.

[Natural Law]

"Debate on church doctrine and or threads on specific religious matters may be best posted in the religion forum, but the defense of religious freedom, especially against those who wish to deprive us of same belongs front and center on FR..."

I'm calling Bullsh!t. Would you care to explain how this posting is a defense of religious freedom and not a defense of specific church doctrine that Jim Robinson says belongs in the Religion Forum?

[ElectricStrawberry]

This guy is completely incorrect on haltares. Guess he never actually took entomology while in the seminary.

His discussing the haltares and the controlling ultrabithorax gene is severely lacking.....and 180 degrees from reality.

Yes, if they deactivate the gene, it will develop wings that do not function normally. Friggin’ D’UH.....that’s because those wings will only have the muscles necessary to flap tiny haltares, not large wings, you friggin’ idiot. You’d have to develop the wings AND the muscles to have functional wings.

This is what happens when theologists stray into the science world.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

That’s basically what evolution is - make it up as you go along “science.”