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A question I don't think creationists will answer.

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Excellent analogy.
 
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I was talking to a certain individual in particular who hasn't presented any evidence.
 
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There's not even a molehill of evidence for the creationist view that all of life is the result of natural mechanisms acting on a single life form from long long ago.

As I said, in blue, in the very post you responded to:
Bolded for emphasis, though I doubt that will make a difference.
 
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The fact that you keep couching your request in terms that allow you to wriggle out of acknowledging the evidences as such demonstrates that you are not interested in an honest discussion.
 
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Ok, as long as your "mountain of evidence" isn't based on guesses and suppositions, might be's, could be's, possibly's and maybe's. That's all the 'evidence' I've seen from Darwinist creationists.

More dishonesty and yet another example of him couching his phrasing so that he has an escape clause when presented with the evidence. A very dishonest tactic, but one sadly typical of Creationists... see Kent Hovind's bazillion dollar challenge.
 
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What are you talking about? The first definition refers to the changes in genetic prevalence within a particular population. That is, in a population, mutations will cause one type of gene to be found more frequently over time within that population. The second definition refers to the changes in genetic prevalence in different populations. That is, as mutations build up within populations (micro) we will observe greater difference and differentiation of characteristics between populations (macro).

How the heck are those definitions supposed to oppose each other when they're perfectly complimentary?
 
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Bold for emphasis: Evolution doesn't occur through hybridization! Evolution occurs when just the opposite happens - when populations are separated long enough to build up enough mutations that they no longer can interbreed.
 
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Speculations on the fossil records given in an evolutionary viewpoint under the assumption that they are transitional are hardly tons of evidence.

Using magic words like "speculations" and "assumption" doesn't make the fossil evidence go away.


This sentence is gibberish. Genomic size has nothing to do with "complexity". Complexity (and I prefer not to use that word, I use the more correct "derived" {as opposed to "basal"}) is determined by phenotype, not genotype.

From Bing Dictionary:

If you wish to be taken seriously, I'd avoid using dictionary definitions and use scientific ones instead.

So Darwinian creationism does exist...

Only in the minds of Creationists.


More gibberish.
 
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Lie. Typical dishonesty on your part. SZ never agreed to your straw man "requirements".
 
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You're posing very good points.

As it is on God to cause the increase, I am glad you see them, brother, however, it should be pointed out how even athiestic evolutionists can oppose themselves and do not even know it. Example below.


To a T he says. What is quoted next from him disproves macro evolution.


And yet somehow, after a series of microevolution, at some point in time, which is not observed nor proven, macroevolution occurs, but the law of Clade which is not all that different from the law of biogenesis says no macroevolution is even possible.


And so as you see, my brother, justlookinla, our opposer, Subduction Zone, proved macroevolution is impossible all by himself. I cannot see how he can compromise the two contrary quotes he has made, and more than likely, he will not see them as contrary at all. It really is on God to open their eyes to the truth. but if they are not seeking it with their minds made up, then they will not be able to discern the hypocrisies in evolution.
 
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Oh my!! Breaking the Ninth Commandment. You do realize that you just lied about me, don't you? Or perhaps even worse you are committing the sin of arguing a topic that you do not understand. I did not make any contrary quotes.
 
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You do realize that all of life forms a single clade, don't you? Nothing he said in any way suggests that macroevolution can't occur.

What on earth are you talking about?
 
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What in the name of all that is good and righteous is the 'law of clade'?

It's Tellastory's misapprehension of what Subduction Zone was referring to - that beings are members of X clade because they share a common ancestor with other members of X clade, the same for Y clade, Z clade, etc. I've never heard of The Law of Clades before, but SZ did qualify his comment by noting this concept is sometimes referred to as such.
 
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I believe that Aron Ra has mentioned the "Law of Clades". It is not a widely used term, but it describes something that is fairly obvious to any biologist. Once a species can be defined as being in a clade all of its progeny will belong in the same clade. Also species cannot evolve from one clade to another. In other words dogs cannot evolve to be cats and vice versa. The offspring of a dog will always be a dog. And that is why we know that humans, snakes, and salamanders all belong to the clade of bony fishes.
 
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In other words the theory of evolution supports the idea of a kind only giving rise to other animals of the same kind. The biological definition of kind or clade is works. I have yet to see a creationist come up with a working definition of "kind". They cannot mention any tests to see if two species are of the same kind or not that is consistent. The biological definition of clade is consistent.
 
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Well, there are all kinds of dogs. Maybe they mean breed.
 
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