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From your link - "Patients with this deformity lack motor function at the affected vertebral level and sensory functions below the affected level." Doesn't sound vestigial at all to me. The key words that gave it away were "deformity", lacking "motor function", and "sensory functions". Just in case you don't understand the term vestigial, I quote it below:
"Vestigial (of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution."
Oops. Darwin's disciples get it wrong again. It hardly seems fair to call them scientists.
Repeating a falsehood won't make it true. Further, there many Christians on CF who accept evolution and saying they are not Christians, but instead "evolutionismists" is a violation of forum rules.
Rodhocetus wasn't a hoax, peppered moths weren't a hoax, four-winged or any other mutationally deformed fruit fly wan't a hoax and Haeckel's drawings would be fraudulent, not a hoax although Professor Robert Richards makes an excellent case that they aren't as fraudulent as claimed.
Appealing to conspiracy theory is a favored Creationist tactic. There's zero evidence for it, but I guess it helps them to sleep at night.
Heh. I'm not going to waste and hour listening to a malarkey merchant taking advantage of the ignorance of his audience. Let's take a few snapshots though...
Two minutes - There are several Ediacaran fossils that are thought to be animals so his firm statement that there are no animals is wrong.
Ten minutes - Long winded attempt to make it seem that rapid burial is the only way for fossils to form. We know they form in anaerobic environments and in environments that were dry like eolian deposits.
Twenty minutes - Variation on habitation zone PRATT where animals are running away from the Flood. I guess that explains why speedy sloths are found higher up than slow velociraptors and sprinting oak trees outdistanced lumbering dimetradons.
Twenty-seven minutes - Stasis in the fossil record?
Forty minutes - Floating Forest "Theory"?
One hour - C-14 in coal. Oh brother. I'm glad didn't watch that PRATT fall in it's entirety.
Creationists are seemingly programmed to deny the very existence of vestigial structures, and engage in all manner of intellectual gymnastics to prop up their case. They will do this even to the point of embarrassing themselves in their zeal to deny that, darn it, the coccyx is vestigial.
Cool! A Google search, copy and paste. Shame you didn't actually read any of them.
>> THIS IS A DIRECTORY PAGE. Britannica does not currently have an article on this topic. <<
Modern use by creationists[edit] In modern times, the term evolution is widely used, but the terms evolutionism and evolutionist are seldom used in the scientific community to refer to evolutionary biology, since the term is considered both redundant and anachronistic.
However, the term has been used by creationists in discussing the creation-evolution controversy.[7] For example, the Institute for Creation Research, in order to imply placement of evolution in the category of 'religions', including atheism, fascism, humanism and occultism, commonly uses the words evolutionism and evolutionist to describe the consensus of mainstream science and the scientists subscribing to it, thus implying through language that the issue is a matter of religious belief. <<
Did you not even notice this was an evangelical blog?
>> Many people refer to us as “Christians,” but we consider ourselves followers of Jesus. Like Jesus, we reject many of the issues found in “organized religion” (man-made attempts to reach God through rules and rituals). Actually, we believe religion has kept more people from the truth than anything in history. Although we reject man-made religion, we consider the personal pursuit of God as paramount in each of our personal life journeys. <<
I guess snark doesn't convey through the written word as well as in film. I was expressing "shock" at your unwillingness to address the content of the linked essay just as Renault was shocked- shocked- to find that gambling is going on in here! in Casablanca. Having cleared that up, no matter how many genetic fallacies are tossed at it, anyone who mistakenly references scientific proof or claims that science proves things will see that article again.
There is no correlation though. "Races" in Origin didn't refer to human races but to subspecies, breeds or varieties. It's not even tortured logic to try and connect that word in the title with racism. It's simply asinine to try and do so.
And as far as "overuse" of negro (by the way, what word should he have used?) I did a little fact checking.
This claim is false. The word negro is used 36 times. European is used 34 times. Indian 24. Fuegian 12. Aborigine 10. Hindoo 8. Where is the supposed "overuse"?
The problem lies with the sneering way the term is generally used, as in the phrase, "Evolutionists believe..." where you can pretty much bet the ranch that what follows will be a fib.I read them. Is there something in particular you think I missed?
The title is "Evolutionism".
I am still not certain what your point is, other than you do not like the term "evolutionism". Get used to it. It is a common term among creation scientists. Dr. David Mention has a good article on the term:
Evolutionism—Is There Such a Word?
Dan
-_- pretty sure that the bible explicitly states that the first human was made from dust, and that the second was made from the rib of the first human.False, since Humans were not made first of flesh, but instead, of fire. We became flesh after Adam sinned. We became identical to the sons of God (prehistoric people) who descended from the common ancestor of Apes. They had a coccyx. We will regain our image as our maker, at the Rapture without a coccyx. Amen?
-_- pretty sure that the bible explicitly states that the first human was made from dust, and that the second was made from the rib of the first human.
-_- that implies that you think that Adam and Eve started out as just their souls. I'm pretty sure this is what people interpret souls/denizens of heaven to look like.Amen, but they were not made of flesh since they were made in the likeness of YHWH/Jesus. Here is His appearance in the O.T.
Eze 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of His loins even upward, and from the appearance of His loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of One that spake.
After His resurrection, Jesus blinded Saul on the road to Damascus with His glory/brightness Act 22:6 at noon. At the Rapture, Christians will know Jesus because we will be like Him.
1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.
Jesus is the Light of the first Day. Gen 1:3
To which I have to question why a soul would have to eat from the tree of life to continue onward if souls are inherently eternal? Furthermore, the fiery appearance doesn't mean they are literally made of fire.
Furthermore, the fiery appearance doesn't mean they are literally made of fire.
Have you ever read this by Dr. David N. Mention (PhD Biology, Brown University)?
From your link - "Patients with this deformity lack motor function at the affected vertebral level and sensory functions below the affected level." Doesn't sound vestigial at all to me. The key words that gave it away were "deformity", lacking "motor function", and "sensory functions". Just in case you don't understand the term vestigial, I quote it below:
"Vestigial (of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution."
Oops. Darwin's disciples get it wrong again. It hardly seems fair to call them scientists.
Where is the conspiracy? It is a fact that evolutionists have a cronyistic relationship with government that prevents other theories from being recognized or funded. Are you denying that?
Where is the conspiracy? It is a fact that evolutionists have a cronyistic relationship with government that prevents other theories from being recognized or funded. Are you denying that?
That flat out sounds exactly like a conspiracy.
I'd like to know what other theories he has in mind. Biblical creationism has been off the table for 200 years.That flat out sounds exactly like a conspiracy.
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