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Ann Coulter: LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE ("The dog ate our fossils...")
AnnCoulter.com ^ | August 31, 2011 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 08/31/2011 8:16:15 PM PDT by RonDog

 


LIBERALS' VIEW OF DARWIN UNABLE TO EVOLVE

August 31, 2011

Amid 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.")
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To: papertyger
...actively resists critical analysis?

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.

161 posted on 09/01/2011 6:33:45 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: Elsie; GodGunsGuts; Fichori; tpanther; Gordon Greene; Ethan Clive Osgoode; betty boop; ...

Ping, thanks for the ping.


162 posted on 09/01/2011 7:06:53 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, Satan says, "Oh crap. She's UP!")
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To: Carling; GodGunsGuts; Fichori; tpanther; Gordon Greene; Ethan Clive Osgoode; betty boop; ...

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.


163 posted on 09/01/2011 7:10:38 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, Satan says, "Oh crap. She's UP!")
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To: GunRunner; Carling
c:You can’t tell me scientifically how life was originated, either, nor can you replicate it in a lab.

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?

164 posted on 09/01/2011 7:14:24 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, Satan says, "Oh crap. She's UP!")
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To: DennisR; GodGunsGuts; Elsie; Fichori; tpanther; Gordon Greene; Ethan Clive Osgoode; betty boop; ...
This ought to be good.....


165 posted on 09/01/2011 7:18:46 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, Satan says, "Oh crap. She's UP!")
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To: Oceander

I’ve seen “proof by condescension” often on left vs right boards - always from the left, of course.


166 posted on 09/01/2011 7:22:28 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: GunRunner; papertyger
A pre-cambrian rabbit could and would be incorporated into evolutionary thought even easier than the lack of transitionals.

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.

167 posted on 09/01/2011 7:24:32 AM PDT by metmom (Be the kind of woman that when you wake in the morning, Satan says, "Oh crap. She's UP!")
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To: metmom
What criteria do you use to distinguish and differentiate life from non-life? When did the first living organism become living?

Don't know. Not a question answered by the theory of evolution.

168 posted on 09/01/2011 7:33:04 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: metmom

Yes, an artful ruse that frees you from having to do any real work.


169 posted on 09/01/2011 7:33:59 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: RonDog

Thanks RonDog and BUMP!


170 posted on 09/01/2011 7:36:21 AM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: GunRunner
Has nothing to do with evolution.

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.

171 posted on 09/01/2011 8:16:39 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: GunRunner; Olog-hai
Transitional fossils and taxonomic groups are subjective terms that help our understanding of the process. It doesn’t change the fact that evolution is ongoing and constant, hence you and I are the transitional fossil between an early primate and whatever homo-sapien evolves into in several hundred million years.

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.

172 posted on 09/01/2011 8:20:26 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: RonDog; Oceander; Carling; GunRunner; Avid Coug

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.”


173 posted on 09/01/2011 8:40:18 AM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
One would expect the fossil record to be discrete. Fossilization is phenomenon that is extremely rare and reliant on very specific environmental and geologic circumstances.

On the contrary, evolution is quite adequate for explaining the vast variety of living creatures on Earth. It is a method to the madness.

174 posted on 09/01/2011 8:42:49 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: GunRunner
One would expect the fossil record to be discrete. Fossilization is phenomenon that is extremely rare and reliant on very specific environmental and geologic circumstances.

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.

175 posted on 09/01/2011 8:47:28 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: Retain Mike; Oceander
Hooda, yabba, whatsamajiggee

Are those the magic words you have to chant to get evolution to work?

176 posted on 09/01/2011 8:49:11 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
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To: Just mythoughts

Any learned follower of Christ knows that trilobite fossils and mammalian fossils are not found together in God’s creation.


177 posted on 09/01/2011 9:30:41 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Oceander
The emphasis in “punctuated equilibrium” is on the “equilibrium” part, not on the punctuation.

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.

178 posted on 09/01/2011 9:47:45 AM PDT by mtg
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
You apparently don't understand what it means to say that the fossil record is "discrete."

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.

179 posted on 09/01/2011 9:50:52 AM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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bump


180 posted on 09/01/2011 10:40:11 AM PDT by DrewsDad (Environmental Extremism Eventually Endangers Everyone)
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