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To: Kowdawg
Excellent Post! Defending the theory of evolution requires an ever increasing number of mind-bending assumptions. Isn't this the critisism leveled at Creation Science?

Thanks!

The basic reality is this. You might could at least listen to a theory which required one or even two probabilistic miracles in the whole history of the Earth, but evolution requires an essentially infinite chain of probabilistic miracles. The original requirement of abiogenesis is a probabilistic miracle, and every step to some entirely new kind of complex creature is a probabilistic miracle.

To believe in something like that amounts to the same thing as claiming not to believe in mathematics and probability theory; nobody making such a claim should be taken seriously.

They tried for several decades to produce just one such probabilistic miracle using every possible kind of laboratory device and could not do it. Fruit flies produce new generations every few DAYS, and they conducted experiments involving subjecting fruit flies to everything known to cause mutations and then recombining the mutations, and they did this for decades, and all they ever got was what the breeders told Chuck Darwin was all he'd ever get via any such process, which was sterile freaks and individuals which returned, boomarang-like, to the norm for a fruit fly. All they ever got was fruit flies.

A number of the scientists involved in these studies in the early part of the 20'th century abandoned evolutionism as a result, including the famous case of Goldschmidt who went on to devise his "hopeful monster" theory and claimed he was being subjected to the kind of "two minute hates" mentioned in Orwell's book at scientific meetings.

Ultimately, evolutionists are like the southerners of which Clark Gable says "All they have left is arrogance." That and name-calling talents are basically the only stock in trade of the little evo clique on FR, the talk.origins crew and other evo groups on the net.

154 posted on 12/30/2001 5:20:06 AM PST by medved
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To: medved
You might could at least listen to a theory which required one or even two probabilistic miracles in the whole history of the Earth, but evolution requires an essentially infinite chain of probabilistic miracles. The original requirement of abiogenesis is a probabilistic miracle, and every step to some entirely new kind of complex creature is a probabilistic miracle.

You have a really strange definition of "probabilistic miracle". What constitutes a "probabilistic miracle" in your book? It would seem that by your definition, the random synthesis of most molecules in nature is a "probabilistic miracle". That's a pretty low bar and generally indicates that your definition is semantically null.

210 posted on 12/30/2001 10:45:29 AM PST by tortoise
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