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Recent content by sfs

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    Evolution conflict and division

    No, let's first deal with the claim you made: "Macro Evolution is not something we discovered...we made it up - and then looked for evidence to support it." That's a positive claim, and for you to make it implies that you're familiar with possible evidence for macroevolution and have reasons to...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    I'm having difficulty thinking of a statement that would be further from the truth. Which of the many lines of evidence for common descent have you studied in the most depth? Endogenous retroviruses? Pseudogenes? Biogeography? Transition-to-transversion ratios? Might I ask what your expertise...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    I was aiming for irony there.
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    Evolution conflict and division

    One could argue that all ideas are made up, of course -- it's just that some made-up ideas turn out to accurate descriptions of reality. Evolution turns out to be one of them.
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    A Brilliant Perspective of Creation vs Evolution

    Hi ronlion, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, lots of thing are generally known that turn out not to be true. Presumably, if the widespread belief is correct, it should be based on some available evidence. I can't find anything in Ian Hutchinson's piece that supports the idea that Maxwell...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    A much better definition, and one that suggests no problem with evolution. Living things are imperfect replicators. Imperfect replicators change from generation to generation. Imperfect replicators that are subject to natural selection can become better at replicating. That's the essence of...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    Okay, let's start there. First issue: that doesn't appear to be a standard statement of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which basically says that everything has a cause. Second issue: even as normally stated, it's far from self-evident, as can be seen from the many arguments about it and...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    I mean I don't know about any other created universes -- what they might be like. A variety of first principles have been proposed in different threads. Please state a first principle that you think prevents evolution of higher forms of life (whatever exactly they might be).
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    Icons of Evolution

    It is if you wish to promote his ideas on a discussion forum. Present an argument.
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    Icons of Evolution

    Well, someone who presumes to accuse health officials of criminal conduct without basis is presumptuous, yes. I'm pretty sure that in the conversation here, only one person studies infectious diseases for a living -- and it isn't you.
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    Sure. I'm not even sure what that means, how we could know the power required, or what units such a measurement would be made in. Again, sure. Maybe he did -- all we know is this universe. I don't consider myself in a position to tell God how he has to will things. Nor do I know what...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    As a Christian, I believe in God the creator, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. That is not a belief that I will provide evidence for. As a scientist, I have concluded that, at a minimum, all animal life on Earth descends from a single common ancestral population and...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    I don't understand this as a response. I wasn't making a logical argument, so there's no logic to follow -- I was making a claim about the evidence. To back up a bit: your argument was that a consistent definition of 'species' was a necessary premise for evolutionary theory. That doesn't follow...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    The division into particular named groups is a human invention. That cows are different from kumquats is observation about reality. Whether we gave them names or not, the would still be related by descent from a common ancestor -- that's what the evidence says, and that has nothing to do with...
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    Would the promotion of the First Absolute Law of Logic help establish the concept of God?

    That's not even remotely true. Evolutionary theory would do just fine if we had no definition of species at all. The evidence would still be overwhelming that living things have changed over time and that the change has occurred through random mutation filtered through natural selection.
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