Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry
"Continuing the distortion, several creationists have equated the theory of punctuated equilibrium with a caricature of the beliefs of Richard Goldschmidt, a great early geneticist. Goldschmidt argued, in a famous book published in 1949, that new groups can arise all at once through major mutations. He referred to these suddenly transformed creatures as "hopeful monsters." (I am attracted to some aspects of the non-caricatured version, but Goldschmidt’s theory still has nothing to do with punctuated equilibrium…) Creationist Luther Sunderland talks of the "punctuated equilibrium hopeful monster theory" and tells his hopeful readers that "it amounts to tacit admission that anti-evolutionists are correct in asserting there is no fossil evidence supporting the theory that all life is connected to a common ancestor." Duane Gish writes, "According to Goldschmidt, and now apparently according to Gould, a reptile laid an egg from which the first bird, feathers and all, was produced." Any evolutionist who believed such nonsense would rightly be laughed off the intellectual stage; yet the only theory that could ever envision such a scenario for the origin of birds is creationism—with God acting in the egg. [My emphasis.]
Gee...and I thought Michael Moore was the closest link to the whale........
I don't think that the purpose is all that mysterious. Throughout moderns times, scientists thinking 'outside the box' have been ridiculed from their professions. It is as simple as that.
The same holds true for the dirty comet theory. There are some that don't believe it, almost none that will submit it.
Co-evolution of ligand-receptor pairs in the vasopressin/oxytocin superfamily of bioactive peptides
Co-evolution of ligand-receptor pairs in the vasopressin/oxytocin superfamily of bioactive peptides
There's 3 in a row for you to try to click on in his list.
I certainly hope your science facts aren't based on such scanty trials. He had over 50 sites listed, you verified 4, and you tell me I should check my computer? Do you really think that is a good enough sampling to suggest that I was mistaken?
Why do you feel so compelled to evangelize on the subject of evolution?
Shoulda pinged you to 571, too.
This thread is too juicy not to bookmark.
Euglena
What dirty comet theory? Astronomers know that comets aren't simply made of ice; they have other things mixed in -- things that end up as meteors (cf, the Leonids). And, as for "thinking outside the box," as long as the evidence supports a theory, other researchers will give it a fair shake in the peer-review process. If it doesn't cover the evidence, don't expect anything but ridicule. Methinks your "electromagnetic gravity" theory falls into the latter category.
There are hundreds of observed examples of speciation.
The first link is about 25 down. I find your statement that the "first two you tried" were invalid to be statistically of low probability, and thus, according to creationist probability analyis, impossible.
It is probale that all, under proper conditions, can crossbreed, just as a lion can breed a tiger and create offspring.
It is well known that Canis lupus will breed Canis domesticus without provocation. It is also well known that CAnis latrans will do likewise, without prompting.
You really need to get together a press release and all your samples.
Why didn't you provide him with the invalid links instead of repeatedly trying to convince everyone with your repeated posts that you were correct?
Yes, the echidnea was on the ark. Everyone knows that.
Why did God make the human eye backwards with a big blind spot in it?
No. I checked the first three and four more for a total of seven of the first twenty.
He needed a repository for the soul--a very small place, indeed.
"Where do you think we'll be a million years from now?"
Burned to a cinder because creationists caused us to lose all of our scientists that would have protected us from nuclear war.
I remember mongooses from Hawaii--ferret-like, intelligent, could eat both rats and fruit--they were imported to eat rats, but were on a different "clock" than rats. It turned out their favorite food was the eggs of rare Hawaiian birds.
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