Artificial Life Experiments Show How Complex Functions Can Evolve

NSF ^ | May 8, 2003 | Staff

[AmericanAge]

You mentioned a single sentence, often used figuratively. And then tried to compare it to an entire chapter of Genesis. And you act like there's no difference? That's like saying there's no difference between War And Peace and Where's Waldo.

[CobaltBlue]

I sent my comment to you by mistake - meant it for Dataman - did I misunderstand the point?

Lenny Bruce complained that so-called Christians persecuted him in a way that was not consistent with Christ's teachings. In other words, they were not only hypocrites, they were exactly the type of hypocrite that Christ himself denounced as "whited sepulchers."

[balrog666]

Oops, that's what I get for not reading ahead!

[RightWingNilla]

"The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex." What about dinosaur bones? "Made by man," he says.

LOL. Just when I thought my opinion of this guy couldnt get any lower. He was a real dog on my rotisserie team last year.

[Aric2000]

Where does it say that?

You are making assumptions based on no evidence at all.

Did eve and adam have more children or didn't they? The bible doesn't tell us, so how do you know for sure?

Because it just makes sense?

But, that's you're argument against evolution, that it's based on no evidence and we are jumping to conclusions.

OK for you, not OK for us.

You have an interesting worldview.

By the way, that in no way says that I believe that evolution jumps to conclusions, because it does not.

I am just repeating what you are saying and trying to make sense out of it.

Logic just doesn't seem to be working though.

[AmericanAge]

"Where did he get them from?"

Right where he lived. The Lord will provide. For all we know, they could have been expansive before the flood. A worldwide flood would do amazing things to global geography, fossil arrangements, strata, etc.

[balrog666]

How did the koalas survive on the ark?

Hoisted on my on petard once again for not reading ahead! Oh, well, great minds think alike and all that.

[AmericanAge]

You act like a couple having more children is some sort of a shock, or a real stretch of the imagination. From a couple who broke the sole cardinal rule that they had been given, the act of reproducing would be nothing to them.

[balrog666]

Lenny Bruce complained that so-called Christians persecuted him in a way that was not consistent with Christ's teachings. In other words, they were not only hypocrites, they were exactly the type of hypocrite that Christ himself denounced as "whited sepulchers."

Yep. The difference between words and deeds doth make a hypocrite of most of them. See AA or DM or G3k.

[Aric2000]

Yeah, I know people like you, they show up at my doorstep at 8:00 in the morning on a Saturday.

My 7 year old answers the door and tells them that Mommy and Daddy are sleeping.

Then they come back at noon, and I have to chase them off with a broom.

I need an insecticide or something for you people.

And by the way, who's truth?

Your truth, Datamans truth, Brigham Youngs truth, the Pope's truth.

Who's truth? Because if you're all true, then we have a problem in the translation.

By the way, if the truth is the one who has the most believers, then you aren't the truth, that would belong to the Hindus. There are more Hindus then any other religion on earth.

[balrog666]

Right where he lived. The Lord will provide. For all we know, they could have been expansive before the flood. A worldwide flood would do amazing things to global geography, fossil arrangements, strata, etc.

What kind of idiot troll are you? We do know and that's crap - just like most of your arguments here.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Did eve and adam have more children or didn't they? The bible doesn't tell us, so how do you know for sure?

I don't believe that Genesis is meant to be taken as literal history or science, or that it contradicts evolution, but, in fairness, the Bible does say that Adam and Eve had other children. Genesis 5:4.

[Aric2000]

But you are assuming, you have NO proof for your assertions.

You say that we can't, and that we don't and then you do it yourself.

Fascinating worldview, just fascinating.

[forsnax5]

eventually this thread will get pulled after people start rolling in the dirt biting each others' ears off.

LOL! The best characterization of this thread so far!

[djf]

The story of a man in a boat with animals, and worldwide catastrophe, is cited throughout so many religions and cultures that it simply cannot be deemed apochryphal. And science has discovered quite a few species that went extinct about 11,500 years ago, including: Mammoth, Sabre tooth tiger, european rhinocerous.

[Aric2000]

I know that, darnit Lurking, you ruined my game here, and I was having so much fun too.

[Grando Calrissian]

He's tearing it up this year. That probably hurts even more.

[balrog666]

Hey, dumbass, koalas didn't go extinct 11,500 years ago and Australia wasn't flooded. You got another guess coming (hopefully from a non-Middle Eastern perspective).

[Grando Calrissian]

By the way, if the truth is the one who has the most believers, then you aren't the truth, that would belong to the Hindus. There are more Hindus then any other religion on earth.

Actually, the truth is the one who has the most white believers.

[AmericanAge]

Actually, that is not correct. There are 1.5 billion Christians in the world. 1.1 billion Muslims. Hinduism has 750 million, and is more of a cultural faith than a religion. Buddhism has slightly less than 350 million. It goes down from there.