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To: chuck_the_tv_out
theory is required to answer such questions, otherwise it is a junk theory.

Says who? The theory of evolution doesn't depend on where the bugs came from, any more than the theory of gravity depends on where matter came from. Your insisting on it doesn't make it so.

56 posted on 02/10/2009 12:09:58 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

“[a good] theory is required to answer such questions, otherwise it is a junk theory.

Says who? The theory of evolution doesn’t depend on where the bugs came from, any more than the theory of gravity depends on where matter came from.”

since you don’t seem to know what sophistry means, I shall point it out clearly in your argument here.

You try to equate evolution’s requirement for a theory of “WHERE THE MICROBES CAME FROM” for some requirement for Newtonian gravity to explain where matter came from. To the casual observer it seems like an equation, because you have equated two things. This is a classic sophistric argument.

evolution DEPENDS on microbes, tiny little critters, as the base of its theory. without explaining where the microbes came from, it makes no sense. Gravity does not DEPEND on knowing where the matter came from. We can detect the force, and we have other definitions of matter, such as inertia. It fits perfectly into the surrounding science and theory hand in glove.

evolution on the other hand, dangles, SEPERATE FROM ALL GOOD & NORMAL & PROPER SCIENCE, with no base, and no purpose, other than to provide a religious context for those who don’t want to believe in God.


59 posted on 02/10/2009 12:23:39 PM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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