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To go back to the very basics, a graph is made up of "nodes" and "edges". If you want to draw a graph on a piece of paper, a node would be a dot or a circle. An edge would be a line connecting two nodes. These pictures are all graphs. Notice, they're all just dots connected by lines...

I have a naturalistic explanation for those passages. Men wrote them.

The Pi "Problem" isn't a problem at all for King James literalists. It doesn't actually say that the lake is circular. It just says it is round.

There are a couple different ways to respond to this. 1. You've only shown that it's not possible for humans to know absolute truth. 2. I can represent pi with absolute precision very easily.

But the problem is, you don't actually have a proper understanding of the theory to even say this. I'm not saying this as an insult, but it is very apparent from some of the statements you've made. Based on some of your statements, like mutations always destroy "information", I would bet much...

But the only difference between micro-evolution and macro-evolution is scale. Let me ask you this. What is the difference between a long walk and a short walk? The answer is the distance traveled. Whether you walk from your house to the corner store, or from one side of the state to the...

You're not wrong at all. It never stops being a worm. It just becomes a worm with eyes. Then a worm with eyes and fins. Then a worm with eyes, fins and teeth. Then a worm with... Does that make sense? Aron Ra, who posts here from time to time, made an excellent video about exactly this...

It's not a cop out, it's just the way things work. New traits can only be introduced when new individuals are born. Because of this, the rate of evolution for a given species depends entirely on the age of sexual maturity for that species. In terms of human evolution, a single researcher can...

In the strictest sense, science cannot prove things true. A scientific theory or hypothesis is either supported or falsified by evidence. By this system, proof is relegated to fields like mathematics and philosophy. However, that's the formal construct around which scientists work. In lay...

That's not really at issue here. This is a thread about evolution, which is irrelevant to the existence or non-existence of God.

Are you aware that there are people alive today that believe the Earth is flat? I'm not making this up. Like you say, the round Earth is a demonstrable fact, yet there are people out there who won't accept it. Evolution is equally demonstrable, yet here you are. I will admit, evolution is...

But that's not how DNA works at all. I mean, not even close. A database is a very rigid, structured thing. It is made up of discrete fields that hold disparate types of information (integers, strings, dates, etc.). DNA is much simpler in structure. It is more like a text file with an...

The problem is that so far in this thread you've used the term Adaptation to refer to two different concepts, micro-evolution and natural selection. Natural selection is a mechanism by which micro-evolution can occur, but the two need not go together. There are other mechanisms by which...

Okay, now you're combining multiple concepts into a single term. Let's try to clarify this. What you're describing above is referred to as natural selection. Those individuals poorly suited to their environment are less likely to survive and reproduce. I'm going to take this as your...