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A Question for Creationists

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No, we share a common ancestor and we can show that.

There is no valid excuse for your claim of common design. That only works with an incompetent designer. Are you claiming that your god is incompetent? We know evolution is not perfect and we expect to find certain imperfections from it. Can you give a valid excuse for those imperfections showing up using a "designer"?
 
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Sounds like evolutionists would make terrible trackers. They'd be too accepting that one footprint and the next, even though they are made by two different foots, were associated because of the gap between them.

Didn't David Attenborough cover that last month, different animals that travel in pairs, while hopping on opposite feet from its companion. Amazing stuff.

You tell 'em, AV.

 
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No, thanks -- before I do that, I'll just pull rank and say: GOD DID IT, as did Jacob.

Genesis 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Exactly.....when all else fails, invoke some magic.......a NOTHING solution to anything.....!

I'll repeat what I said at the outset.....you keep your cheap parlour tricks from antiquity. I'll take the hard work and application of reason which supplies us with the real 'miracles' of the natural world.....
 
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Oh really...?

Then please explain why your god placed those markers for ancient ERV insertions in exactly the same locations in the genomes of both humans and chimps, humans and orangutans, humans and monkeys and humans and gorillas? Why did your god present the overwhelming impression of common ancestry if this were not the case...?
 
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Leet me sdhow you the error of your way. Going from the hippo to pakicetus only shows one fossil and to evolve into a different species take at least 10 intermediates.

Whales didn't evolve from hippos. They evolved from a cetartiodactyl common ancestor and hippos are the closest living relatives to whales. And how did you arrive at that precise number?


You keep mentioning drawings, but there was 5 photos of fossil skeletons in that post. Are you just pretending they don't exist?


Exactly. And if he'd actually look at the skulls represented in the cladegram, he'd notice the blowhole migrating on pakicetus, rodhocetus, dorudon and the dolphin.
 
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It is amusing but complely false. Show me one intemediate fossil. What it was before it was an intemediate and what it became. Please add the biology that makes it possible.

Wow! Just wow. That's some amaing chutzpah there dude. You claim that Shermer's statement is false and then go on to write exactly what he was talking about! Let me walk you through it:

- Here's a transitional fossil. (gap filled)
- Oh yeah, well what's before it and after it? (now two gaps)

 
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You need to stop; calling someone dishonest unless your can prove they are

I did. And I would gladly discuss your further comments but you butchered the VBB tags so badly that I can't tell what's what in this post. If you clean it up (you can edit forever here) I'll respond to the rest of it.
 
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It is amusing but complely false. Show me one intemediate fossil. What it was before it was an intemediate and what it became. Please add the biology that makes it possible.

I show you one intermediate and then you'll say that there are now two gaps to fill.
 
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I show you one intermediate and then you'll say that there are now two gaps to fill.
Indoctrination will not allow creationists to accept any evidence no matter what. They are set in their ways. Unlike people who accept science and are willing to change what they accept; creationists remain in a static limbo. They are not here to debate but to proselytise and preach. It is like trying to warn a moth that the light is a flame!
 
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I'll take the hard work and application of reason which supplies us with the real 'miracles' of the natural world.....
And what does "hard work and application of reason" tell you, as to how Jacob was able to predict his flocks ahead of time?

You're thinking like Laban thought.

"Huh! Go ahead, Jacob, let's see you take my species of cattle and make a new one!"
 
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That only works with an incompetent designer.
What evidence do you have that the God who created the universe is "incompetent"?

Isaiah 40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? KJV
 
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We are not saying that they are ancestral. We are saying that they are transitional. Transitional means that a fossil has a mixture of features from two divergent taxa.

That description is meaningless. Many different species have features of other specis that even you wuld not say are related,

It does not require that the fossil be directly ancestral to any living species.

It certainly does. Where di you et such an idea?

ven Darwin spoke of using fossils of "collateral descendants", or side branches that are not directly ancestral to living species.

Darwin was wrong about a lot of things. He acknowledged the fossil record was a problem but he wsais the intermediate fossil would be found in time. He was wrong.


All of thatg is the usual evo rehtoric. Until you can show, biologically of course. how an offsprng can acquire a trait for which the parents did not the gene for You are wandering in the dark, just making up stuff you hope will sound scientific.


 
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You have yet to show two species that do not belong to the same kind.

Are dogs and cats the same kind?

For example, genetic evidence demonstrates that humans and other apes belong to the same kind.

It seems you evos are always reluctiant to produce the evidence for wht you say. Makes me wonder why. What genetic evidence do you have that apes and humans belong to t he same kind??

DNA, which is evol worst enemy, will show they ar not the same kind. Not being able to mate and reproduce will confirm what DNA has verified.
 
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While the DNA between human and chimps are similar how the DNA is read makes the bigger differences. How the DNA is read is what makes a brain cell different from a skin cell. IIRC we share only 35% of the same proteins of chimps.
 
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That description is meaningless. Many different species have features of other specis that even you wuld not say are related,

Perhaps, but we're not just talking about features between species here, but features between entirely different clades. For instance, you'll never find a fish with a neck or a tetrapod with gills, but titaalik has these, and features that show a mixture of amphibian and fish traits, like its ear region. It's exactly what we would expect to find if amphibians evolved from fish - a creature with traits from both, as well as traits that show a mixture of both.
 
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