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To: null and void

It’ll never close the credibility gap.


6 posted on 12/18/2013 10:22:57 AM PST by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
It’ll never close the credibility gap.

Nonsense!

If you find a fossil in the exact middle of a gap, one that perfectly matched the predicted transitional form in that gap, you have NOT filled that gap.

You have merely created two gaps on either side of it.

That's why they call people who believe this "creationists", they create gaps where data fills holes...

9 posted on 12/18/2013 10:37:31 AM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: PapaNew; null and void
"It’ll never close the credibility gap."

You know what they say about using the word, "never". :)

"Without a doubt, the ultimate Black Swan is whatever it was that permitted merely genetic human beings to emerge into full humanness just yesterday (cosmically speaking), some 50,000 years ago.

Prior to this there was existence, but so what? There was life, but who cares? With no one to consciously experience it, what was the point? Without self-conscious observers, the whole cosmos could bang into being and contract into nothingness, and it would be no different than the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it.

.....Most science and religion are unserious, but especially -- one might say intrinsically -- when they exclude each other.

A religion that cannot encompass science is not worthy the name, while a science that cannot be reconciled with religion is not fit for human beings. And I mean this literally, in that it will be a science that applies to a different species, not the one that is made to know love, truth, beauty, existence, and the Absolute. Science must begin and end in this principle -- which is to say, the Principle -- or it is just a diversion. ...."

HERE: Creation Myths of the Tenured

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"...human consciousness is a revolutionary development "which cannot be arrived at by means of either logic or evolution." This revolution is outside and beyond the boundaries of all science and all philosophy, for it represents a radical discontinuity with all that has come before.

Yes, there are continuities, obviously; but in its essence, human consciousness is absolutely unlike anything else in all of creation. Evolution doesn't really have room for true creative novelty, since its apparent novelty is just an illusory result of random accidents, not any conscious intent.

Furthermore, evolution does not, and cannot, confer meaning on existence. Rather, it is only humans who decipher meaning in an evolutionary process that cannot account for it.

.......otherwise we would be like animals, who essentially have only preprogrammed responses to environmental stimuli. ...

Humanly speaking, there can be nothing "higher" than the love of truth. It is not as if we will "evolve" beyond such love; rather, one can only progress backward, as in deconstruction, multiculturalism, leftism, etc. ...."

HERE: Natural Evolution vs. Supernatural Revolution

13 posted on 12/18/2013 10:50:55 AM PST by Matchett-PI (It's a single step from relativism to barbarism, low information to Democrat, ignorance to tenure)
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To: PapaNew

Another run at trying to creat a human out of one bone, where is the rest of this great find. Only the atheists and the marxitsts and the liberal left think this is real science. Like others on here stated looks like the remains of a hot wing. Once again the junk science gets it day in the sun. there will be the mouth breathers that will be foaming at the mouth over this crap.


60 posted on 12/18/2013 12:16:11 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: PapaNew
It’ll never close the credibility gap.

Credibility, or credulity?

93 posted on 12/18/2013 1:25:58 PM PST by tacticalogic
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