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Good article commenting on more junk science.

1 posted on 01/23/2012 8:53:16 AM PST by fishtank
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To: fishtank

lol


2 posted on 01/23/2012 8:57:08 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Now I know how the average lefty would feel if Fred Phelps were elected President.)
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Hey! Look, I know none of the equations, science, and evidence support atheistic evolution, but just throw in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to any argument, and Time becomes the wild card in the Sophistical game.

3 posted on 01/23/2012 8:57:51 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: fishtank
Which is more complex—a typical man walking across a street, or a blind man carrying a legless man across the street?

More complex still is a blind man carrying a legless man across a street while reading an article about it in braille. Unless the legless man read it, or maybe they both do. Need more research on that.

4 posted on 01/23/2012 8:58:59 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: fishtank

Very interesting but I’m not convinced by the logic. I assume that, like the combination of a legless and blind man, the molecules in question have become more complex and have continued to perform their original functions using a different configuration.

If such a thing were possible, I think a blind man and legless man merging together would indeed be more complex and might benefit by virtue of 2 brains, 2 personalities. 4 ears, 4 arms, etc.

It was, after all, their analogy.


6 posted on 01/23/2012 9:01:28 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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Evolution is supposed to explain how complicated biological machines, such as legs and eyes, developed without an intelligent person to design and build them.

We don't observe God creating living things out of nothing in a flash. He takes his time. It took 13.7 billion years to create us.

9 posted on 01/23/2012 9:06:37 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: fishtank; decimon

Hey decimon, thought you might like to see this! :-)


10 posted on 01/23/2012 9:08:03 AM PST by TEXOKIE (... and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all FREEPERS EVERYWHERE!)
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11 posted on 01/23/2012 9:08:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: fishtank

Please, please go away, creationists.

You are making we educated Christians look almost as stupid as liberals and Muslims.

If you insist on the earth only being around 4k years old, you may as well also decide that the earth is only one second old, and we’ve just been imprinted with our memories.


12 posted on 01/23/2012 9:08:16 AM PST by Da Coyote
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These guys are supposedly professional commentators on evolution and they still cannot get it through their thick nitwit skulls that evolution doesn't have a “direction”?

Evolution doesn't necessitate either an increase or a decrease in complexity, just that those variations that inevitably arise because DNA is mutable will be subject to natural selection such that those variations that lead to better survival/reproductive outcomes will predominate in subsequent generations.

22 posted on 01/23/2012 9:40:56 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: fishtank

I love the studies done by Randy Jirtle at Duke University on the Agouti mice. He is a leader in the field of epigenitics and showed that the DNA when methylated reverted back to the original un-mutated state. This would suggest that their is some sort of an ideal or norm and diversions from it, not an evolutionary free form adaptation.

Nova ran a special explaining his discovery. I don’t think science has comprehended his discovery to date.


26 posted on 01/23/2012 9:50:10 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: fishtank

Ping


28 posted on 01/23/2012 10:22:03 AM PST by Chainmail
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To: fishtank

We all came about by random evolution in a meaningless world, so there is no right or wrong. Somehow, there is a right and wrong way to evolve, though.


32 posted on 01/23/2012 1:12:53 PM PST by WPaCon
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Finnigan, G. C. et al. Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine. Nature. Published online January 9, 2012

Is anyone going to read Finnegan’s article?

I read the Kelo vs. New London opinions. I tried to discuss them with the “Constitutionalist” libertarians campaigning for Paul in 2008 and they never heard of it. They thought Kennedy’s opinion had something to do with TED Kennedy. So I gave up. And so I don’t read many SCOTUS cases anymore.

That could explain why I am not reading Finnigan’s article.


34 posted on 01/24/2012 9:49:46 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (and I will go to southern Maine to campaign.)
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