Posted on 04/17/2007 8:13:01 PM PDT by conmanning1
“Perhaps Dr. Novella has data that show real evolutionary improvements in the brain caused by brain tumors. If he has, he should show us.”
If evolutionary theory predicted that brain tumors would lead to improvements in the brain, he might have a point.
Sort of a long screed to set up such a pathetic strawman.
I posted it because I thought it was interesting. I’m familiar with the common arguments back and forth - irreducible complexity, not enough time for evolution, etc. This is a new one I’d never heard before and I wanted to hear other people’s thoughts on it. If you think it’s a crap idea, I’d rather have you explain why than have you just call it drivel and insult my “faith.”
The neurosurgeon quoted in the article supports Darwin. Although, the way you have removed the formatting of the blockquotes, it may be hard to see that.
You need to study a bit more astronomy. The fact that we haven't seen any earth like planets is because of optics, not because they're not there. If we were sitting on a planet around another near by star, we would not be able to see the Earth with our existing equipment.
I should have known better to post to one of these medieval fear threads, but occasionally I find it irresistible.
I'm sure you are strong in your faith.
The whole argument over Darwin as the antichrist is just misdirected.
Whaddaya know. You can actually have a productive career in a science-based field like medicine without finding evolution useful. But...but...surely this can't be. Fanatical devotees of evolution have told us repeatedly, right here on FR, that teaching of evolution, even at the middle school level, is absolutely necessary, because it is "basic science," "absolutely fundamental," and we will sink into technological backwardness if we don't.
Hope it will be OK with you if I clarify something. Evolutionary theory does not address creation of the Heavens and Earth. That is not its goal.
Biological evolution is commonly defined as followed:
change in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool from one generation to the one that follows it.
Yeah, and isn’t it ironic that our utterly pathetic public schools teach evolution religiously, whereas many academically high-performing Christian schools teach creation. (I’m not claiming that I believe in literal biblical creation; I am merely stating an observed fact.)
Your post does not say that that the word “theory” does not derive from “theo” or “God.” What is your source?
Also, what does “L.L. theoria (Jerome)” mean?
Uh, excuse me, but it's the "Intelligent Design" crowd who claim that they can measure that. Take it up with them.
No. The neurologist supports Darwin. The neurosurgeon wrote the article. “Although, the way you have removed the formatting of the blockquotes, it may be hard to see that.” I didn’t edit at all, just cut and pasted. You should read more carefully. It’s really not hard to see it. Again, why doesn’t anyone explain why it’s wrong?
Some people are so beguiled by the obvious—the flux of things—that they ignore how fixed things generally are. Books that are copied down a thousand different times remain subantially the same. We know how Aristotle thought, even though that thought came, not from him buty from his students. Thought has a certain fixity, because the “structure” of it must be respected, and too many changes simply destroy it, make it meaningless. A cancer is meaningless life.
Sorry. I just re-read it. The way it came out, it’s not that clear. The whole article was written by Dr. Egnor, the neurosurgeon. The guy he quotes is a neurologist collegue of his. None of it is mine.
Quite possible that Earth is unique. But since we are afraid of death, we are afraid of being alone, of the idea that we are alone in the universe, that all the worlds except ours is dead. Having banished spirits, we are left to long for visits from men from “Mars”. We turn our instruments to the skies and look, and listen, and long for familiar sights and sounds.
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