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It isn't. Evolution was never intended to explain the origin of life. It was only ever intended to explain how life changes over time. Darwin himself described evolution as descent with modification by natural selection. Descent necessarily implies from life to life, not from non-life to...

"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival...

The differences between the human and chimps genome are responsible for the physical differences between humans and chimps. If all changes to a genome were deleterious and none were beneficial then there should either be a chimp or a human, not both. One would be riddled with disease while the...

I can hear underwater, which means that my ears have function underwater. Therefore, you don't have to have the whole system come together at once. Some hearing is better than no hearing, so even a human level of hearing underwater will be selected for. Not only that, the ancestors of...

How did they prejudge?

"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival...

We know that ERVs are created by retroviruses inserting themselves into the host genome because we can watch that very thing happen in the wild and in the lab. The ERV evidence is based on their location in the genome, not the rate at which they are fixed. Functional DNA makes up around 10%...

We have the gradual appearance of stone tools over millions of years. We have transitional hominids that span millions of years. Your interpretation is not supported by the evidence.

Then show how that interpretation is supported by evidence.

That's part of the controversy. Should they have been found guilty?

He made his contempt of wrongful shootings well known. That's not the same as contempt for law enforcement. So are most of the things on the nightly news. So you don't think we should be mad when police shoot unarmed people? Is that a christian value?

From the article: Strickland said that he has never seen the country so racially divided, and he blames Obama for “causing trouble” and widening “the gap between the races” by getting involved when black teenagers were shot by white police officers, which Strickland views as rare occurrences...

Reading between the lines, their view of christian values includes: 1. kicking brown people out of the US. 2. kicking people off their health insurance so rich people can get a tax break. 3. talk about christian values, even if you don't follow them. 4. keep your mouth shut if blacks are...

It would be interesting to hear what these folks consider "christian values".

You have never presented this evidence.

A nested hierarchy (i.e. phylogeny) of gene sequences does indicate relatedness through common ancestry since a nested hierarchy is what we should see if genomes are related through common ancestry. It isn't simply similarity that points to shared ancestry. It is the PATTERN of similarity that...

Scientists can DEMONSTRATE that the evidence is consistent with the predictions made by the theory of evolution. Creationists can't come up with any predictions for creationism, much less show that the evidence is consistent with their claims. That's the difference. Science is testable...

What about the differences between the human and chimp genomes in those genes? Are all of those differences deleterious?

Invoke all you want. The bias is still there.

They are still random mutations with respect to fitness. Throwing "cell directed" in front of it is just a semantic game.