Originally Posted by
Papias
Are you seriously disagreeing with the fact that evolution supporters publish more actual research in biology than creationist do? You can look at any of the dozens of major biology journals and see papers in support of evolution (just do a search for the word "evolution", and you'll find literally thousands). Here is one such real scientific journal.
International Journal of Biological Sciences Now, where are the thousands of creationist papers descibing real research that you seem to think exist?
Tell me you know the faith, denomination, and personal beliefs of even ONE of those authors.
Please don't try to move the goalposts. I never claimed anything about denomination, faith, or such - only that they support evolution or creationism. Evolution support can be seen from the papers themselves, which show evolution, as well as the fact that practically all biologists support evolution.
You may be able to find a handful who have publicly declared their faith in writing.
Until you do, you have an unscientific claim and a plain old fashioned rant.
Why do you think I'd buy into your made up requirement that I provide information on faith? If you care about that, then feel free to go and look for it.
Check out
the director of the human genome project. He never mentions evolution here.
That's odd. You'd think they'd hire someone smart enough to give "evolution" all the credit.
Huh....go figure.
Um, Dr. Francis Collins speaks out often in support of evolution from a Christian standpoint. You picked one of the most vocal evolution supporters (among everyone, Christian or not), and try to deny that he supports evolution? Were you joking, or were you really completely unaware of his constant and proliferate evolution support?
Here he is again defending evolution, which is a major topic of his recent book, "The Language of God"
Francis Collins - The Colbert Report - 2006-07-12 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Just because you are ignorant of medical history doesn't change the facts. Many sources document that anesthesia was opposed on Christian grounds in the 1800s. Here's another - this one a whole book that was written by doctors at the time to try to convince Christians that the use of anesthesia wasn't a sin. Answer to the religious objections advanced against the employment of anaesthetic agents in midwifery and surgery : Simpson, James Young,Sir,1811-1870 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Your intent to prove your point by hiding it in history, as most Evo's attempt to do, is overshadowed by the current fear. You need to link the fear, which clearly exists in 30% of the population, with their religious beliefs...
today. Actually you should be able to to that. But there is no point in hiding your data in historical opinion pieces to make your point.
Hiding? How am I hiding anything when I give you a link to a whole book on it? If those beliefs are still prevalent today, then fine, that only proves my point more. Thanks for helping to prove my point.
I scanned about half of the references searching on "
archaeology".
Biblical History and Israel's Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History - Megan Bishop Moore, Brad E. Kelle - Google Books
Many were supportive of the literal interpretation, most were neutral, one was opposed.
Well, DUH. Of course you'll find plenty in support of a literal view by doing a search - that turns up books, which are written to make money, often by laypeople who are clueless about actual archeology. The experts in archeology know quite well that a literal reading of the Bible is not supported (indeed contradicted) by archeology. I've provided two references by top researchers in archeology. If you prefer to go by jim-bob down the street, well, that's up to you.
You still seem to be completely misunderstanding both your claim and mine. Of course we don't understand all of what all DNA does. All of your references only show that in multiple cases, we have found some function for some small part of the genome, the vast majority of which still appears to have no function.
Amazing how you think
your opinion trumps the authors opinions.
Yes, you could be right, and people who publish their work could be wrong. It happens all the time.
.......
I COULD go on , but I'm simply
going through the list top down
showing your conclusions to be opposite of the goal of the articles.
At least
admit they have not reached
your conclusions.
You still don't get it. I'm not contradicting them, we are both saying the same thing. I don't disagree with the experts on this or anything else - you are simply not understanding either of us, and so you think we disagree with each other, when in fact we both disagree with you.
Let me illustrate this with numbers.
Imagine a genome of 100 chunks of DNA. Say that we know what 18 of them do (code for proteins), and we have names for much of them (say another 62 which are STRs, ERVs, pseudogenes, and so on - but we don't know that they have any function.
Now imagine that from that 62, we find that 9 play a role in gene expression.
We could state that from the intial 82 stretches of "junk" DNA, we now can say that those 9 aren't "junk", in that they serve some purpose. We could say that the amount of "junk" DNA is being reduced as we find it is used in some way. We could further say that it is likely that other uses will be found for some of the remaining stretches for which we don't know the use.
That's all fine, and that's consistent with what both I and the experts are saying.
No expert is saying that we know that every piece of DNA is useful, as you seem to be picking up from them somehow.
You still don't seem to understand the paramecia point. If you don't, just ask me to repeat it. If you do, could you please state it, so I can see that you understand it? Thanks-
Papias