Posted on 08/31/2011 8:16:15 PM PDT by RonDog
LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE
August 31, 2011Amid the hoots at Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry for saying there were "gaps" in the theory of evolution, the strongest evidence for Darwinism presented by these soi-disant rationalists was a 9-year-old boy quoted in The New York Times.
After his mother had pushed him in front of Perry on the campaign trail and made him ask if Perry believed in evolution, the trained seal beamed at his Wicked Witch of the West mother, saying, "Evolution, I think, is correct!"
That's the most extended discussion of Darwin's theory to appear in the mainstream media in a quarter-century. More people know the precepts of kabala than know the basic elements of Darwinism.
There's a reason the Darwin cult prefers catcalls to argument, even with a 9-year-old at the helm of their debate team.
Darwin's theory was that a process of random mutation, sex and death, allowing the "fittest" to survive and reproduce, and the less fit to die without reproducing, would, over the course of billions of years, produce millions of species out of inert, primordial goo.
The vast majority of mutations are deleterious to the organism, so if the mutations were really random, then for every mutation that was desirable, there ought to be a staggering number that are undesirable.
Otherwise, the mutations aren't random, they are deliberate -- and then you get into all the hocus-pocus about "intelligent design" and will probably start speaking in tongues and going to NASCAR races.
We also ought to find a colossal number of transitional organisms in the fossil record -- for example, a squirrel on its way to becoming a bat, or a bear becoming a whale. (Those are actual Darwinian claims.)
But that's not what the fossil record shows. We don't have fossils for any intermediate creatures in the process of evolving into something better. This is why the late Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard referred to the absence of transitional fossils as the "trade secret" of paleontology. (Lots of real scientific theories have "secrets.") Read More
More words that have no basis in reality. Even if it were, I don't think the scientific answer to religious principle is more religion.
Ping, thanks for the ping.
The ToE is simply wishful thinking based on extrapolation of conclusions arrived at from forensic evidence.
It does not meet the criteria for science, has not been observed, cannot be tested, and cannot be repeated, nor does it make any useful predictions.
It’s a philosophical construct, no matter how much darwinists try to disguise it otherwise.
GR:Has nothing to do with evolution.
What did the first living organism evolve from?
Or did it just pop into existence?
What criteria do you use to distinguish and differentiate life from non-life? When did the first living organism become living?
I’ve seen “proof by condescension” often on left vs right boards - always from the left, of course.
What an artful ruse you've concocted for yourself.
On the contrary, the headlines would read something like this.....
Mammal evolution pushed back millions of year, occurred earlier than previously thought.
Rabbit now recognized as a "living fossil"
Darwinists wouldn't let some little glitch like that blow their theory out of the water. They'd find some way to explain it away.
Otherwise, they'd have no explanation left as to how life came to be on this earth that wouldn't bring them face to face with the creator they reject.
They won't let it die because their world view can't afford to let it die.
Don't know. Not a question answered by the theory of evolution.
Yes, an artful ruse that frees you from having to do any real work.
Thanks RonDog and BUMP!
Well, it sort of does actually, under the broader rubric of naturalistic explanations for life and its propagation. If life did not originate naturalistically, then there's much less of a logical reason to assume all of the rest of the naturalistic baggage that comes later.
Mere supposition that doesn't address the extreme discreteness of the fossil record. Like it or not, the reason taxonomic groups exist to help our understanding in the first place is because of the discrete nature of the record (and of living creatures) that naturalistic evolution simply cannot explain on the macroscale.
Not much response here. Time to go to another thread.
Oceander said, “Hooda, yabba, whatsamajiggee? That’s enough empty, pompous verbosity to qualify from some left-wing social-science, deconstruction theory, feminist critique magazine. Perhaps the “Science” section of the New York Times will publish it for you.”
On the contrary, evolution is quite adequate for explaining the vast variety of living creatures on Earth. It is a method to the madness.
You apparently don't understand what it means to say that the fossil record is "discrete."
On the contrary, evolution is quite adequate for explaining the vast variety of living creatures on Earth. It is a method to the madness.
So? "Explanatory power" is not an indicator of factuality.
Are those the magic words you have to chant to get evolution to work?
Any learned follower of Christ knows that trilobite fossils and mammalian fossils are not found together in God’s creation.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium places a huge emphasis on the punctuation part. In fact, it's the whole premise of that theory - that it explains the sudden (punctuated rather than a gradual) emergence of just about every animal phyla found on earth.
The theory may attempt to explain the "effect" of punctuated equilibrium, but advances very little towards the "cause" of it. Especially when considering that paleontological and geological records indicate it apparently happens only about once every 3 billion years.
You don't even have a fundamental understanding of the claims evolution makes, demonstrated by your insistence that the theory of evolution claims to explain the origin of life. So a semantic argument seems rather irrelevant.
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