Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
Honest Evo Ping.
"Well, duuuhhh!" respond Creationists.
;-)
Oh whatever.
By the same reason, studying history is useless.
There are legitimate quibbles with evolutionary theories. This is not one.
Oh really? Well I suppose then that all the creationsits can skip their annual influenza vaccinations and free up the limited supply to the evos.
Junk science makes for great snake oil.
He who ignores history evolution is doomed to repeat it. Nope doesn't work. History is practical and relevant. Evolution is not.
Very good point.
Concerning language, we have a good record on the evolution of English.
However, it didn't become a new sort of language ~ just another transformation of a synthetic to an analytic language type.
Sometimes analytic languages become synthetic, or part of a synthetic language.
In biological terms this would be like cats turning into dogs, and dogs turning into cats.
Biological evolution doesn't work that way and is conceptually unable to be applied to linguistic change.
Oh I don't know, Marx, Stalin, and Hitler found a lot of usefulness for the theory of evolution. Especially Marx, in fact he wanted to dedicate the 2nd volume of Das Capital (one of the pillars of world communism) to Charles Darwin. Darwin refused this dubious honor though.
What does evolution have to do with influenza vaccinations? The first vaccines were invented by a Creationist.
Cite?
Yeah, I also questioned the darwinist's claim that no new lanquages had been observed. What about Pig Latin? Or Jive? Or Technical Jargon? Clearly language is evolving and rapidly. English today is dramatically different than English 600 years ago. That claim can't be made for animals or plants.
BTTT
Evolution is for people who don't believe in God's Greatness and Power.
Evolution makes an atheist comfortable with his atheism (to paraphrase Richard Dawkins).
Evolution is a scientific theory and does not address God in any way shape or form.
I doubt any of them ever noticed that there is a vast science devoted to the study of languages.
This is one of the reasons biological science researchers have to hire "word smiths" ~ otherwise no one would figure out what they were saying ~ not that they are illiterate even if they seem to be.
I learned a new word today: "Balkansprachbund" . This has to do with certain linguistic structures common to all Balkan languages irrespective of what language branch they came from.
There is debate over whether or not these languages are melding together, or simply adhering to some common standards that facilitate communication.
Apparently none of the folks involved in the debate ever studied Latvian, Greek or Latin ~ there they'd see that entire separate languages have been absorbed, in toto, right down to the conjugations and declensions. I think it's Greek that shows signs of having absorbed a "female only" language group at one time.
Biologists would have a devil of a time explaining all of this in the language of evolution as they understand it.
The corollary is that rank ignorance is for those who do (if you accept the above statement).
Ping
Saturn has rings. This knowledge has thus far been completely useless to mankind; but it's still true.
ML/NJ
Perhaps, but if evolution's only practical effect it to explain where we came from... And to many, that explanation doesn't fit the data as well as a Creator.
One really has to question, is exclusion of God a form of negatively addressing God.
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