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To: dan1123
A wide range of philosophical beliefs about the nature of life, biochemistry, or other factors could lead to the same results.

Maybe they "could" in theory. (A theory that no antievolutionist has ever taken the trouble to lay out in detail, or even coherently outline, but which instead is invoked as mere possibility, as you do here, with wide arm-waving and airy assertion.) But the point is, since the advent of modern biochemistry and molecular biology, it's never been done in practice, or even discernibly attempted.

Against this hundreds of papers are published every year representing original research conducted on the basis of assumptions of or inferences from evolution.

You defending evolution by arguing from ignorance and speculation is a pretty common practice though.

Actually I'm arguing from results.

I'll be interested when antievolutionists have some results, when there's ANY indication that the employment of non-evolutionary assumptions has proven fruitful in generating new knowledge via original research.

All you've come up with here is more arm-waving. "Ah, gee, look at how complex these systems are. They're too complex to be the product of evolution." But if that argument were valid it would apply to complex systems that we already knew about. As to how some non-evolutionary theory accounts for the particular facts in this case, or any other, you got nothing.

48 posted on 12/19/2007 11:08:28 PM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis
You defending evolution by arguing from ignorance and speculation is a pretty common practice though.

>> Actually I'm arguing from results.


This is why it is so difficult to debate with an evolutionist. You were not arguing from "results", but comparing an existing scenario to a straw-man of a creationist scenario.

I'll be interested when antievolutionists have some results, when there's ANY indication that the employment of non-evolutionary assumptions has proven fruitful in generating new knowledge via original research.

It will be interesting when evolutionists allow such research to occur and be published.
65 posted on 12/20/2007 10:49:04 AM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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