Darwin’s recessionary tip: act like a beetle

"Darwin’s great insight was that species retain randomly occurring new features that improve their survival. Hence, evolution. In theory, adaptation occurs in companies thanks to conscious strategy. In practice, the process may be more freakish, as directors studying their business plans years later tend to concede. It can involve happenstance, hunches and blind panic."

You answered your own question that an intelligent source designed it. When you speak of a “living thing adapting” don't you see the difference between reacting to our outside environment and changes on the cellular level are analogous to the profound differences of Newtonian physics and Einstein's world of subatomic particle physics? Cells don't “know” about what we encounter and they can't make rational choices. They can only react in a preprogrammed way to outside stimuli whether it be chemical, radiation, etc.

You state that all living things are capable of some level of sense perception. But why would they develop these sense systems originally since they would have no idea that the outside stimuli (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) even existed. So what do you base this upon?

The idea that living organisms contain many of the same features and functions among species proving evolution also falls flat when you consider a unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, car, and jet plane - all have wheels but only a simpleton would rationalize that the jet evolved from a unicycle. The devices all posit an intelligent designer who could have used aspects of one device when engineering the next.

As for the programming aspect your argument confirms my reasoning - YOU as a designer improve the program, the program doesn't improve itself.

AIDS is a lentivirus (a slow moving virus) and part of a group called rhino-viruses. It is NOT a new species. Viruses by their NATURE are programmed to modify themselves to ADAPT. The flu does this every year. Yet no one sees the flu becoming a new species. It is still the flu. Forms of AIDS have been discovered in monkeys and now scientists are stating it may have been around in different ADAPTED forms for centuries. If humanity hadn't been consuming AIDS-tainted monkey meat (SIV), the transfer between species would probably never have occurred.

If you put up an umbrella in the rain, wear shorts in the summer, or put on a heavy coat in the cold - you don't become a new species. You've simply ADAPTED to your environment. Speaking a different language doesn't make you a different species. It means you have ADAPTED to the cultural environment you're in.

Molecular biologists are not moving towards Darwinism as fact. The truth is they are seeing errors and holes throughout its theories. If the same rigor surrounding math and physics were applied to the field of evolution, it would collapse like a house of cards. Many of its greatest adherents are secular philosophers who couch their arguments using scientific terms but cannot prove evolution because it is not a repeatable process and fails under the guiding principles used for science. I would posit the real driving force is the desire to eliminate God and the very element of moral influence which pervades American thought and the world view of Christians.

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler - all Christians. Christians embrace God and the knowledge that the discoveries of science time and time again demonstrates the Creator who put these things in place.

Darwinism is nothing but a flat-earth theory for biology in a 21st century world. And just as the world hated those who spoke of our planet as a round orb or the sun as the center of our solar system - in time Darwin and his theories will be exposed for the many deficiencies, outright lies, and manipulated fraud to push an agenda.

I am on the side of reasoned intelligent debate.

I don't know what “side” you're referencing, but if it includes those who voted for a presidential candidate from a race-baiting church, with ties to a convicted felon who assisted in jump starting his political career, a governor who has been impeached, a party that generally promotes homosexual marriage/relationships, associations with former domestic terrorists, who favors abortion on demand, infanticide, and partial-birth abortion, has no executive experience (other than a stint as a failed administrator at the Woods Foundation) either politically or in government, and refuses to release his birth certificate and other pertinent information concerning his citizenship, and continues to promote the false notion of Global Warming - then I can assure you I am on the OTHER side.

Only 8% of evangelical Christians have any concept or understanding of orthodox Christian doctrine and can defend their faith intelligently. This is why our nation is in the condition in which it stands today.

“Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” - Isaiah 1:18

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