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Maybe aliens terra forming earth? If so, I wonder if we are what they expected.
, millions of progressive life forms should have developed in an evolutionary continuum along all the different branches...”
“... we see no evidence of transitional forms in the fossil record. “
“...rock layers below the Cambrian are devoid of invertebrates.”
They have.
Yes, we do.
No, they aren’t.
Fixed the title for everyone.
“On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”
BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859
Some years back, noting that what is taught as science in schools is often far out of date, even to the point that I recall one biologist saying that among the first things they had to do with serious students is to help them get rid of all their previous knowledge from school, I pondered what is to be gained by teaching falsified ideas.
At the time I joked that bad science books must be cheaper than good.
However, on a more serious note the purpose of teaching evolution, even Darwin’s own ideas, is to ge5 kids used to thinking about reality in such a way that no god is needed, in a way that is agreeable to the secularists etc.
The basis fo4 5his view is being aware that people can have other reasons to believe in something that is not only more important than that something but will dictate what is useful to be believed.
Thus we see Marx, on reading Darwin, writing to Engels that he’d found a basis in naturalism for their views, which is to say he must have recognized that if there can be natural selection there can also be unnatural selection by the heavy hand of the State and propaganda to make men-like beings that do not share the nature of Man enough to actually be what Marx fantasized about.
Lysenkoism, or the idea of making nature more socialist, doesn’t fall far from the tree after all.
Likewise we currently see the Left accepting genderism for similar other reasons to believe (as Cultural Marxists they labor to set the world on fire, to tear down everything under a delusion of magical thinking that once everything that hasn’t worked to produce utopia has been cast aside they will somehow find themselves in the utopia they seek ... to which I would counter that while Reason may be a potential master it is at least a master that you can choose, whereas Passion arising from irrational desires is what does the choosing as is subsides people into madness.
An aside here. In late 2019, I had the honor of listening to a short speech given to our local astronomy chapter by Dr. Harrison Schmitt, the only actual scientist (geologist) to walk on the moon. He stated that study of the surface of the moon showed the light from the sun changed at about the same time as the Cambrian Explosion. He didn’t elaborate, I just thought it was an interesting tidbit.
Occam’s razor.
Presented with 2 competing explanations. The one that requires the smallest number of assumptions is usually correct.
1) Did the Cambrian Evolution Explosion occur leaving no transitional fossil records yet to be found anywhere that would prove to be evidence to support a progressive evolutionary continuum to higher complex life forms and specie.
Or
2) God created all living things.
Check out several articles on Edicara Period. The last period of the Pre-Cambrian before the “Cambrian Explosion”
Agree - thanks.
Evolution the greatest hoax in the history of modern man.
Thanks for the post.
However, Newton's theories are perfectly adequate when designing bridges, roads, buildings, etc. Things that aren't moving fast or accelerating much follow Newton's equations quite accurately.
Similarly much of Darwin's theories might still be true even though there are gaps that need to be filled by a more refined theory.
The most compelling arguments against Darwin's theories are those associated with there not being a sufficient amount of time for us to see the amount of diversity that we do see. This is even more the case when we find out about the several mass extinction events and episodes like the Cambrian Explosion that suggest there is even less time for evolution to occur.
However, evolutionists are now exploring things like epigenetics where the environment can have a positive effect on leading evolution into a favorable direction rather than being completely random. I believe that some evolutionists are wary of epigenetics because it seems to them to be an only slightly veiled version of Larmarckism which they have banished to the same place they sent vitalism.
I'm hoping that evolutionists will open themselves up to the possibility that epigenetics and the nature of basic chemical reactions will show that evolution is not mutation with random selection, but instead is more like mutation with selection mediated by the environment.
This could be an answer to why we see so much diversity in such a short amount of time.
Once I learned darwin was a life long avowed atheist, I quickly discounted every single thing he ever babbled on about...
Saved for later full read.
The obvious dilemma he had too was that you just didn’t see selection of the most fit features among the population because the features remain rather constant; People have 2 eyes, not 3 or 1, which would give those features a chance to show their fitness. Always 2 ears for man, no more, no less. Six fingers remains an genetic anomaly, but is insignificant. If it were a Darwinian world, we’d see all sorts of competetive features, but that never is.
And never mind that the theory is plain stupid. From the beginning of humanity, the sperm knew how to travel against gravity, up the walls of the cervix, up the wall of the uterus, right into the tiny hole of the Fallopian tube, and along that trail towards its end, there to meet up with an ovarian egg, that happens to be waiting conception. Will he say that only those with smart sperm survive? Or that it took x number of sperms to impregnate the ovum, and those did not succeed until only one was allowed the privilege?It’s all so absurd.
From the beginning, food that enters the mouth, into the stomach, was dissolved by HCl. Was it some other weak acid that could not compete at first that made its debut, before HCl came along? Cannot be because life could then not exist. It’s all so ridiculous.
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