How to choose between creation and evolution.

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

So here we are. I think it's a "watch" if you can wear it on your wrist and tell time with it. I think that is a perfectly reasonable position. Warden, on the other hand, will only call a thing you wear on your wrist and tell time with a "watch" if it is also man-made. Since we don't have any examples of "watches" which are not man-made that is also a reasonable position, it seems to me. Where does that leave us?

WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR POINT IS!

I'll be honest: I don't think we'll ever really know.

 

[xianghua]

Primates are the ancestor of humans

Synapsids are the ancestors of mammals and the fossils show step by step how that “ reptilian” jaw structure evolved into a mammal jaw and middle ear

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

It's not the same thing!!

 

[Speedwell]

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

No, that's just something you made up which does not even reflect the true history of the development of motor vehicles.

WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Negro? Really?

That's the way it was written.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

When you say that the findings support a untenable and impossible to prove viewpoint while it says the complete opposite, you are definitely guilty of being intellectually dishonest.

You really need to read my posts more carefully.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

But it has no rational bearing or support in facts.

Its just a delusion.

Not really. We look at the same facts but arrive at different conclusions. I don't look in the bible to determine if the human eye was purposefully designed; I look at the human eye. You look at the same eye and determine that it evolved over billions of years but present virtually no details of how this occured. I would indeed be delusional if I accepted your position.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

You really need to read my posts more carefully.

I never said you have to agree with everything a scientist says if you don't want to. But if you were intellectually honest, you wouldn't willingly say that you ignore parts of a scientific study that supports evolution.

 

[rjs330]

As evidence by their DNA, yes.
The same kind of evidence that shows you and your sister, share the same ancestors.



We know it happened, thanks to the genetic evidence.
We understand how it happened because we understand the process of evolution (and can demonstrate every single aspect of that process).




No, my statements are based on facts and actual data.



In case of biology, it also shows kinship.


Google observed speciation.

DNA also shows you are not a chimp, and shows that my ancestor is not your ancestor. You can take my DNA and show that my mom is my mom and you mom is NOT my mom. It cannot be used to show me and a chimp have common ancestry. In fact it shows we dont because DNA can be used to show a blood sample belongs to a human or a chimp.

 

[rjs330]

As evidence by their DNA, yes.
The same kind of evidence that shows you and your sister, share the same ancestors.



We know it happened, thanks to the genetic evidence.
We understand how it happened because we understand the process of evolution (and can demonstrate every single aspect of that process).




No, my statements are based on facts and actual data.



In case of biology, it also shows kinship.


Google observed speciation.

You do not know by genetic evidence. Similarity does not show common ancestry. Genetic evidence actually shows the opposite because it is used to show what something is and what it is specifically related to. That's why we know by genetics that a cow is a cow and not a horse or a spider.

All genetics can show is that there is common design among things. It does not show that all things came from the same thing. Just like we can show you and I did not have the same mother. And it also shows that we are not spiders or horses. Or even chimps.

 

[rjs330]

I didn't say otherwise. They are both animalia.



That might actually be possible. Although the concensus in the community concerning the data seems to be that all life likely evolved from a single population.




Cats are far younger then spiders in any case.



Surprise, I can't show you a process that takes 100s of millions of years to unfold, in real time in a lab.

Well you could start. Science has had a long time to start an experiment, but so far they haven't been able to show such a process is even possible. So, they assume it is.

 

[pitabread]

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

That's not an evolutionary progression. That's just three vehicles of different sizes.

 

[DogmaHunter]

I know what it means, but isn't it a rather confusing term?

Okay.

But going by the post in which you mentioned it, it doesn't seem that you actually do understand it.

 

[DogmaHunter]

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

There's no progression there. Just 3 manufactured mechanical devices ordered from small to big.

 

[DogmaHunter]

DNA also shows you are not a chimp,

No poo, sherlock.
It also shows that I'm me and not my sister.

and shows that my ancestor is not your ancestor.

Your direct ancestor indeed is not my ancestor. But we do share ancestors.

You can take my DNA and show that my mom is my mom and you mom is NOT my mom.

And we can also show that my grand, grand, grand,...., grand mom IS yours as well.

It cannot be used to show me and a chimp have common ancestry.

It can.

In fact it shows we dont because DNA can be used to show a blood sample belongs to a human or a chimp.

huh?
That didn't even make any sense. Not that the rest made sense, but that one was especially terrible.

 

[DogmaHunter]

Well you could start. Science has had a long time to start an experiment, but so far they haven't been able to show such a process is even possible. So, they assume it is.

google observed speciation.

 

[Brightmoon]

DNA also shows you are not a chimp, and shows that my ancestor is not your ancestor. You can take my DNA and show that my mom is my mom and you mom is NOT my mom. It cannot be used to show me and a chimp have common ancestry. In fact it shows we dont because DNA can be used to show a blood sample belongs to a human or a chimp.

Actually you have the same ABO blood types as a chimp and the Rh factor was named for the animal they first found it in- the RHesus monkey. They actually use human blood for chimps if they have to operate on them

 

[Brightmoon]

God and crew are literally from heavens -- celestial beings from a much more advanced civilization far far away.

That is how evolution and creation can both be true.

Creation is the belief that life was created by a deity . Evolution is the fact of descent with modification in living organisms and we can also see where this happened in the past . Religious beliefs or atheism don’t have anything to do with science. I happen to be a Christian. I also accept evolution

 

[Brightmoon]

like this progression?;

(image from The Difference Between Personal and Commercial Auto Insurance)

No! Those are just random vehicles you’ve lined up in size order. The nested hierarchy is based on each small group also belonging to a larger group . Humans also belong to the larger group-mammals . Mammals belong to the larger group synapsids which means that humans are also synapsids. Humans also belong to deuterostomes along with echinoderms and bilaterians along with fish, “worms”, arthropods, mollusks, and annelids.

 

[USincognito]

DNA also shows you are not a chimp,

Yeah. So what?

and shows that my ancestor is not your ancestor.

This is vague, but It's not accurate. People who have shared ancestors will share more DNA. I took an Ancestry test as did my 1c 1x and she showed up as a cousin in my Ancestry results. A whole bunch of cousins in my dad's side took tests and they show up as well - all because we have a shared common ancestor.

It cannot be used to show me and a chimp have common ancestry.

This simply is false. All DNA can be used to show common ancestry within and between species.

In fact it shows we dont because DNA can be used to show a blood sample belongs to a human or a chimp.

This makes zero sense.