Posted on 09/13/2006 3:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
Lawyers still work.
I like that phrase as well..therefore, this is my...
'Lone Rangers of Science' placemarker...
I think he's at peace now, but he really should start reading the threads.
So how come it makes true predictions about what will be found in the lab and the field? Where to dig to find Tiktaalik, what pseudogenes to expect in a genome, the fact that fossil marsupials are found in Antarctica, and on and on. Each of these predictions is a test that the theory is right - and it's passed all of them.
Maybe, someday, ID or creationism will be able to do the same sort of thing - but that day isn't here yet.
Yes, mine, and countless scientists.
Countless? Maybe a couple of hundred, world wide, using a very generoous definition of "scientist"; but less than 1 in 300 biologists, paleontologists, etc.
BTW, you flipped over to "geology" and out of "evolution". KNowing something about "evolution" probably illuminates thinking about "reefs". However, "geology" is on a different thread at a different time. Presumably "geology" helps folks find oil. Lawyers, though, help you keep it.
The rules against thread jumping are right here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm
If you read this thread further you will find this was settled a while back. It wasn't thread jumping. I was directed to the post in question.
Whatever you imagine yourself to be now, you can't make vitamin C for the exact same reason that a chimp or gorilla can't.
Fortunately for me in this particular little discussion as you get holder and your "blue" cones begin failing you, (or you start using Viagra or other substance that shuts them down), you will get to see what it's about.
Yes, it doesn't. End of discussion. Lots of stuff downstream but the external environment doesn't reach in there and diddle the genome.
Yup, it happened.
The same folks who thought we had MILLIONS of genes were flabbergasted. Of coure we don't have millions of genes, and not all of them came from mommy and daddy (all the way back).
Some folks continue to be flabbergasted and aghast at this discovery.
Evolution is not a philosophy one "subscribes" to. There's no reason to "help" it along, as there is no goal. It's a process, not a plan. It's the way the diversity of species came about on this planet.
But yes, civilization has changed the evolution of humans. But civilization is worth keeping anyway.
Is it not possible that the magnetic force is not a force pulling, but a force neutralizing or amplifying another force that normally is pushing? I think you probably see where I am going here. It is sort of a relative force thing. There is just so much we don't know that often we find our position is based on what appear to be obvious assumptions, but end up being incorrect.
All we can do is posit a theory and trust it until evidence proves otherwise. Often 1 can go a long ways before 1 discovers an hypothesis or theory is dead wrong. Ptolomy's theory actually got him quite a ways before he realized he was dead wrong.
riiiiight...
Not if they're doing their job right; at least not in their professional decisions. That's why scientists constantly cross-check each other's work for signs of subjectivity.
I've said it many times before, I'll say it again - I have no problem with a personal belief in creationism (and neither do most people around here, IMO). I only have a problem with non-science being passed off as science, and vice versa. If the Earth isn't billions of years old and life didn't evolve on it, it was created with the definite appearance of having done so; and that's a position anyone can scientifically validate OR falsify. Either way, the scientific predictions still work, hence the value of the geological theories, evolution, cosmology, etc., no matter what it is that one believes.
Just SHOW me the crumb of evidence Without the name calling...if you can....my guess is that you can't do either. So PUT up or SHUT up!!
Thank you!!!!!
You spoke of oil....I believe that oil doesn't come from dead animals but from pressure put on SAND to make it liquid....and the sand DOES have fossils init. I can't prove this, it;s just my OPINION, but evolutionists say that evoluntion is a FACT!!
What about wevolution do you understand?? I can see God everywhere....where do you see evolution...as a FACT??
You have NO proof because there isn't any, but you cannot bring yourself to say that God CREATED everything just as he wanted it.
I posted a fairly extensive list of things -- most of the things you eat -- that we would not have without evolution. Not just evolution, but applied evolution. These new crops and animals would not exist without evolution.
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