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A Pondering of the Peculiar (3)

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And I see you cut out the majority of my post and failed to respond to it.

Yes, but your post was not in respond to what I said. I did point out you have me confused with another poster. Does that happen a lot for you?

And for most of the other animals they were left to go extinct, as observed in the fossil record. Why is that?

Did this super genius also create all of those cool parasites, like parasitic wasps, or the the worms that burrow into children's eyes so that they go blind, or the one that eats the fish's tongue and then takes the place of the tongue, so it can keep eating?

Absurd Creature of the Week: This Parasite Eats a Fish's Tongue — And Takes Its Place - Wired Science



Such a genius. Hypothetically, of course.

In the world of science, gods are of no significance.

Individuals do not evolve, populations evolve. Did you not know that?


Davian... You win. ;)


:wave: I got to get back into my time machine. Thanks you allowing me to gain insight into the ways of my teen years. Its really insightful and helpful to better understand those years when you can see it from an adult's perspective. If I was a kid I would play your games. Not going to do it. You win! :D You clever little thing you!


bye.
 
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Davian... You win. ;)


:wave: I got to get back into my time machine. Thanks you allowing me to gain insight into the ways of my teen years. Its really insightful and helpful to better understand those years when you can see it from an adult's perspective. If I was a kid I would play your games. Not going to do it. You win! :D You clever little thing you!


bye.

Looks like someone is smarting. One would think an advanced age would insulate one from embarrassment when one is spanked on a forum. I know it doesn't bother me very much when a discussion isn't going my way, but then I'm only middle-aged.
 
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I see you avoided the setting and details I gave. I used to have pet chameleons. I read up on them quite a bit.

What I said was not asking about how they have the ability. But that does not deter you from showing off some more meaningless data in regards that it does not pertain to what I actually said.

I gave a hypothetical reason how ... under certain conditions... a chameleon living on a constant background, would have always retained the ability to change, even when it was not made evident because of always being on the same background. Likewise, God built into certain creatures an ability for change. One that will remain latent until placed in an environment that will stimulate this ability into action. After all, God created the chameleon (what a super genius my Lord really is!) It was just as easy for Him to create in other creatures a similar ability to change when the need arises.

Evolutionary biologists do not enter God into the equation. They have not yet evolved far enough to do so.

Actually, chameleons use those color change abilities to startle predators that discover them and show emotion to rivals such as anger. Using it to hide, not so much. Octopi are way better at it anyways.
 
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Davian... You win. ;)


:wave: I got to get back into my time machine. Thanks you allowing me to gain insight into the ways of my teen years. Its really insightful and helpful to better understand those years when you can see it from an adult's perspective. If I was a kid I would play your games. Not going to do it. You win! :D You clever little thing you!


bye.

Fail old man, you did lose, not because of your lack of being able to debate, but because you couldn't be willing to stay in it knowing you would lose.
 
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That proves evolution?

God in his wisdom has certain creatures with latent qualities already built into their DNA. Like a chameleon can change colors to match its background.

Phenotypic plasticity is not the same as new traits caused by mutations. Chimps and humans are different because our genomes have different DNA sequences, not because we are expressing different parts of an identical genome.

If an island only had a green terrain... no bare earth? No wood showing? One would normally think chameleons are green. But, take them out of their normal environment, and place them where we find earth and tree bark? Lo and behold! Evolution!? No...

No, it isn't evolution. Evolution is the change in alleles in a population over several generations. Evolution is not change in a single individual during their lifetime. When you tan in the summer, you are not evolving.

God created an ability to adapt into the finches that Darwin observed.

Evidence, please.

There are animals right now that have the inbuilt ability to adapt and change in order to survive.

No one is disputing that phenotypic plasticity exists. However, this can not explain the difference between species, nor can it explain such things as the appearance of antibiotic resistance in bacteria in experiments such as the Lederbergs' plate replica expeirment.

REPLICA PLATING AND INDIRECT SELECTION OF BACTERIAL MUTANTS

Evolutionists have found ways to distort that truth.

For once, could you at least try to back up one of your claims with something approximating evidence? Or are you going to go on and on with bare assertions and empty accusations?
 
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I see you avoided the setting and details I gave. I used to have pet chameleons. I read up on them quite a bit.

What I said was not asking about how they have the ability. But that does not deter you from showing off some more meaningless data in regards that it does not pertain to what I actually said.

An individual organism changing over the span of an hour or so is not evolution. Do you understand that or not? Evolution occurs at the population level, not the individual level.

Likewise, God built into certain creatures an ability for change.

Still waiting for evidence to back up this claim.
 
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No teacher was leading students to Christ. The vast majority of people at that time were all Christians. It was agreed upon with consent of the people. Religious freedom was one of the things that attracted many to the new world. Christians who were seeking to escape their old government religious tyranny sought passage to the colonies.

They were escaping a government with a state religion, the very thing you are trying to advocate for. You seem fine with schools pushing christianity, but you seem to bristle when other religions would be given fair treatment under the law. Double standard?
 
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They were escaping a government with a state religion, the very thing you are trying to advocate for. You seem fine with schools pushing christianity, but you seem to bristle when other religions would be given fair treatment under the law. Double standard?

We pledge allegiance to the flag... ... One nation, under god, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Cthulhu, Odin... :p
 
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Davian... You win. ;)
What was there to win?

:wave: I got to get back into my time machine.
Really? What century are you going back to? ^_^

Thanks you allowing me to gain insight into the ways of my teen years. Its really insightful and helpful to better understand those years when you can see it from an adult's perspective. If I was a kid I would play your games.
Still with the insults.

Not going to do it.
Is that not what you have been doing for this entire thread? Your game of bluff and bluster, and personal attacks?

You win! :D You clever little thing you!
There is that condescending attitude again. Can you not show more maturity at your age?

Don't leave on my account.
 
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Looks like someone is smarting. One would think an advanced age would insulate one from embarrassment when one is spanked on a forum. I know it doesn't bother me very much when a discussion isn't going my way, but then I'm only middle-aged.


That's the way you see it. Fine..

It was more like having to constantly deal with divert and skirt. Like trying to get a straight answer out of a career politician.

I find those who claim to be godless, they have no inner core to stick to nor can stand firm on. It makes narrowing down things quite difficult when diversion and distraction are the norm. Its not about truth. Its about defending an agenda at all cost. Truth may be mixed with error or presumption... Stirred with personal hatred (which is always denied) .. and then poured into a mold with a middle finger extended, having a cute smiley face imprinted on its end.

I came here to see what the type of atheists who are attracted to this forum have to say. From what I can see, some are going to be in Heaven in spite of what they think they are. Some will not.

After a point, I find it too unpleasant to keep watching someone laughing hysterically while shoot dangerous thoughts into their mental veins. Thinking it will not harm them, nor come to an end.

So, all you can say was...


Looks like someone is smarting. One would think an advanced age would insulate one from embarrassment when one is spanked on a forum. I know it doesn't bother me very much when a discussion isn't going my way, but then I'm only middle-aged.


Again.. a juvenile way of approaching a matter that requires one to become an adult. It causes many to become adults. Death and reality are adult subjects. Not, for minds who treat it like a video game. Stubborn denial can only work up until one's last breath. Then, denial becomes an obsolete option. For, only undeniable reality must follow.

I can not deny that there has to be a God. Because I am not a mattoid who is willing to accept the thought that all the complexities in life and matter that function with perfect precision what we see in creation, could have all come about without circumstance. Nor,deny being manufactured and designed by a mind of such high intelligence that it makes those who are inappropriately proud of their own intellect on this earth, made to feel insignificant and like they are nothings in comparison. So, they must deny it to keep their wrongly placed self image intact.

This world just did not happen by chance. Evolution theory, as to the origin of life, is based upon having mindless chance guiding the outcome.

So, I am to believe? It all just fell into place...matter always existed...and, randomly organized into living breathing organisms? I am not that stupid to believe it could. Evolutionists are always insulting the intelligence of those whom they wish to cleverly deceive. They know by rote their talking points. But, if put into a machine that cuts off the ability to lie to self? They would have to tell you they are unable to explain any thing, and end up with their concept of reality not standing strong.


 
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You are projecting.

I don't think it qualifies as projecting; that is when one places their own secret feelings onto others. I doubt genez thinks he is godless or has no moral foundations, though his grouping of all atheists together and calling all atheists immoral is noted and not appreciated.
 
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I don't think it qualifies as projecting; that is when one places their own secret feelings onto others. I doubt genez thinks he is godless or has no moral foundations, though his grouping of all atheists together and calling all atheists immoral is noted and not appreciated.

My own opinion is that genez would feel that he has no inner core if it weren't for his religious beliefs. That is what he is projecting.
 
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