[PatrickHenry]

Here'is a link to the offical website of the court where Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover School District, et al. is being tried. There is a schedule of witness appearances for the coming week. If you click on Docket, you get a list of all significant pleadings filed in the case -- the complaint, the answer, etc. They're PDF files, but almost everyone has the Adobe reader. So you can check that website and be fully up to date on what's going on in that litigation.

[PatrickHenry]

Darwin Central's weekend edition, part one:

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 300 names. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped. See what's new in The List-O-Links.

[AntiGuv]

If there is a God, then he could have made the monkey and the human with similar genetic material.

Yes, that is very true. If there is a God, he obviously made the universe in such a way so that it would appear billions of years old and so that it would appear as if all terrestrial life evolved from a common ancestor.

[Thane_Banquo]

How can the theory of evolution explain the development of sexual reproduction? The probability that an organizm developed both male sexual organs and male sexual cells through mutuation in close proximity to another that developed both female organs and cells through a mutation, and that the cells and organs were compatible, and that they got the idea to combine the organs in some way, is so staggeringly low as to be laughable.

I have seen probabilitys of the order of 10^-50ish to describe some evolutionary events. Evolutionists argue that "given enough time, it will occur." But mathematicians realize that 1 x 10^-50 is actually zero for all intents and purposes. Something with zero probability can never happen regardless of the time given.

Let's take one of these probabilities. Let's assume that the probability of a species developing sexual organs as described above and then successfully reproducing is 1 x 10^-25, a conservatively high estimate in my opinion.

But let's say that means the probability is 1 x 10^-25 of it happening in any hour.

Given 100,000,000 years (876 billion hours), the probability of it happening in 876 billion hours or less could be characterized by the exponential distribution. The probability would then be 1 - exp(-(1x10^25) x 876 billion), which is still approximately zero.

[Just mythoughts]

"But Haught said that in the world of science, there is little debate that humans share a common ancestor. "


The WORLD of science, hmmmmm maybe there is more unseen going on here than I supposed. Maybe this is about another WORLD?????

[AntiGuv]

So, are Behe, Dembski, or any others of the ID luminaries gonna testify?

[SmartCitizen]

If there is a God, then he could have made the monkey and the human with similar genetic material.

Similarity in no way proves a common ancestor. It's illogical. The argument goes like this: If X is similar to Y in Z, then X and Y must come from Q. The conclusion does not follow the premise. Anything that is illogical is also unscientific, but evolutionists can't be accused of being scientific, since science invites honest inquiry, and the high priest gatekeepers of neodarwinism work overtime to silence all dissent in their attempts to protect their relgion. They are paralyzed with fear at the thought that their raison d'etre will be discredited and rejected.

But, they need not fear, for the power of government is behind them. Indeed, the government has established a de facto state religion in its rulings favoring the teaching neodarwinism in schools, and that religion is atheism. It reminds me of the Soviet Union.