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Why do you believe in the evolution theory? (2)

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I've responded to this several times now.

You have responded with the same non-answers.

I responded to this in post #296

With the same non-answer.

If they can't come about through random mutations and natural selection, then they can't evolve. You are saying that random mutations can not do it, that it takes an intelligence to purposefully mutate the genome. That is not evolution.

I would falsify the hypothesis.

Yet another non-answer. What observation, if made, would disprove design?
 
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So what, was it direct revelation? Mail order catalog? Visions?

He wrote down all of the observations and arguments that led him to his conclusion. You can read it here:

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin


No it is a word to steal credit from God for creation.

No more so than gravity is a word used to steal credit from God for moving the planets about.

It tells a tall tale that is a lie and it is easy to smash it to bits once someone with kumuffins puts the basis on the table.
It is a foolish demonic slander on God and Scripture that melts in the light of truth.

If you are going to accuse scientists of lying, the least you could do is demonstrate that they are lying with real evidence.
 
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Fantasizing over finches ways that would make it seem God did not create em is not learning. It is communing with devils.

The above disparagement of the science involved in the evidence for evolution was written by a human with a vestigial tail.
 
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He wrote down all of the observations and arguments that led him to his conclusion. You can read it here:

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

You'll find science such as this in the book....

"I think there can be no doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain parts, and disuse diminished them; and that such modifications are inherited. Under free nature, we have no standard of comparison, by which to judge of the effects of long-continued use or disuse, for we know not the parent-forms; but many animals possess structures which can be best explained by the effects of disuse. . . . The ostrich . . . is exposed to danger which it cannot escape by flight, but it can defend itself by kicking its enemies, as efficiently as many quadrupeds. We may believe that the progenitor of the ostrich genus had habits like those of the bustard, and that, as the size and weight of its body were increased during successive generations, its legs were used, and its wings less, until they became incapable of flight. . . . The evidence that accidental mutilations can be inherited is at present not decisive; but the remarkable cases observed by Brown-Séquard in guinea-pigs, of the inherited effects of operations, should make us cautious in denying this tendency."
 
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You'll find science such as this in the book....

"I think there can be no doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain parts, and disuse diminished them; and that such modifications are inherited. Under free nature, we have no standard of comparison, by which to judge of the effects of long-continued use or disuse, for we know not the parent-forms; but many animals possess structures which can be best explained by the effects of disuse. . . . The ostrich . . . is exposed to danger which it cannot escape by flight, but it can defend itself by kicking its enemies, as efficiently as many quadrupeds. We may believe that the progenitor of the ostrich genus had habits like those of the bustard, and that, as the size and weight of its body were increased during successive generations, its legs were used, and its wings less, until they became incapable of flight. . . . The evidence that accidental mutilations can be inherited is at present not decisive; but the remarkable cases observed by Brown-Séquard in guinea-pigs, of the inherited effects of operations, should make us cautious in denying this tendency."

Last I checked, the ostrich and guinea-pig are very real animals.
 
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Why is that?
God didn't form the 'first lifeform' and breathe life into it or make it in His image. He did not die to save said imaginary goo either. I have to tell you this? That sets off a red flag.
 
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The above disparagement of the science involved in the evidence for evolution was written by a human with a vestigial tail.
If man had a tail at some point and rapidly adapted...whoopee do. Hollow as sounding brass.
 
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He wrote down all of the observations and arguments that led him to his conclusion. You can read it here:

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
From your link I read this


"Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are grave enough. All the individuals of the same species, and all the species of the same genus, or even higher group, must have descended from common parents;"

As I said, communing with devils.

Kids watch out evolution is as bad as the occult and dangerous.

No more so than gravity is a word used to steal credit from God for moving the planets about.

Gravity is also used for cosmo whoppers like the 'gravitydunnit' excursions into fantasy. No one cares about gravity now and here.
If you are going to accuse scientists of lying, the least you could do is demonstrate that they are lying with real evidence.
They need evidence to show they are truthin. Otherwise, their juicy tidbits of insanity that oppose reason and God, and must be exorcised.

Like casting out a devil.
 
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Credit for what being MIA, inept, sleeping and a liar?

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Organismic Evolution is a fact.
there is no such thing as macroevolution as such. It is organismic or micro evolution
viewed under a different time scale.
Natural Selection (with genetic drift) is a very very good theory,
never been usurped. It is measured as a straight line on a graph, linear
scale in terminal base pair mutations per million codons per million years.
Evolution thus has a inbuilt molecular clock.
So science can not only tell what came from what but also WHEN.

Cultural evolution is faster (exponential)and involves brains helping to evolve bigger brainsl.

An example of the fact of evolution is the evolution of antibiotic resistant
pathogenic bacteria in a human world where antibiotics are commonplace.
 
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From your link I read this


"Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are grave enough. All the individuals of the same species, and all the species of the same genus, or even higher group, must have descended from common parents;"

As I said, communing with devils.

Kids watch out evolution is as bad as the occult and dangerous.



Gravity is also used for cosmo whoppers like the 'gravitydunnit' excursions into fantasy. No one cares about gravity now and here.
They need evidence to show they are truthin. Otherwise, their juicy tidbits of insanity that oppose reason and God, and must be exorcised.

Like casting out a devil.

the above rant against the science of evolution was written by a human with a coccyx.
 
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Credit for what being MIA, inept, sleeping and a liar?

For creating such a wonderful and amazing universe. You're the one who is accusing Him of being a liar by faking all of the evidence that exists in His creation.
 
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From your link I read this


"Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are grave enough. All the individuals of the same species, and all the species of the same genus, or even higher group, must have descended from common parents;"

As I said, communing with devils.

How is that communing with devils?

Gravity is also used for cosmo whoppers like the 'gravitydunnit' excursions into fantasy. No one cares about gravity now and here.
They need evidence to show they are truthin. Otherwise, their juicy tidbits of insanity that oppose reason and God, and must be exorcised.

Like casting out a devil.

You are not making any sense.
 
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