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Darwin Doubted

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Darwin doubted his own theory as stated on page 280 of On the Origins of Species “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology surely does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” (note that the origin of this quote is page 226 of the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics)

The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation. The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.

Consider the pictures of a fish, then an amphibian, then a reptile and then a mammal. They put arrow between these and state their theory like it was a PROVEN fact. There is no evidence for any form of life that is part way between fish and amphibian. There are zero missing links alive today or in the fossil record. These huge jumps are just a popular GUESS. The guess is based on their REASONING and WISHFUL thinking.

Where are the millions of fossils that are the evidence of thousands of times all over the globe that mutations were BETWEEN the previous and next kind? Where are thousands of dead end evolutionary trails that did not make the macro jump?

The textbooks and magazine articles have PAINTINGS that SEEM realistic. When I was a child the ARTISTS painted the dinosaurs very dull gray and green colors. In recent years the ARTISTS have been adding all kinds of vivid colors. I doubt that there is hard evidence for colorful or dull colored dinosaurs. I suggest that most of the popular concepts of evolution are not rooted in solid scientific evidence.
 

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Apparently you also THINK that CAPITALISING words at RANDOM in some way IMPROVES your post.

Of course, your Darwin quote is grossly out of context. Here's the full text: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/darwin/darwin_IX.htm

Now, if you actually read the whole thing, you'll find that Darwin is presenting a possible objection to his theory, and providing an explanation to counter it. Far from being an expression of doubt in his work, it's a defence of it.

As to the rest of your post, all I can suggest is that you learn more about evolution. Try picking up a simple textbook, or something. Learn before you criticize.
 
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Wow you have just cracked the code. Evolution is a lie, somebody needs to tell all those scientists that have spent all their professional lives studying in the field!

How can we get the word out? Or do they all know that it is a lie, and it's just an atheist conspiracy?

How do you think things came to be? God did it? Is that enough?
 
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Darwin doubted his own theory as stated on page 280 of On the Origins of Species “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology surely does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” (note that the origin of this quote is page 226 of the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics)

It's always good to doubt your theories, especially if they are new and different.

The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation. The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.

Here we go again. This is getting old.

Consider the pictures of a fish, then an amphibian, then a reptile and then a mammal. They put arrow between these and state their theory like it was a PROVEN fact. There is no evidence for any form of life that is part way between fish and amphibian. There are zero missing links alive today or in the fossil record. These huge jumps are just a popular GUESS. The guess is based on their REASONING and WISHFUL thinking.

Sigh. I'll leave the fossils to the others. Paleontology is not my specialty.

Where are the millions of fossils that are the evidence of thousands of times all over the globe that mutations were BETWEEN the previous and next kind? Where are thousands of dead end evolutionary trails that did not make the macro jump?

The textbooks and magazine articles have PAINTINGS that SEEM realistic. When I was a child the ARTISTS painted the dinosaurs very dull gray and green colors. In recent years the ARTISTS have been adding all kinds of vivid colors. I doubt that there is hard evidence for colorful or dull colored dinosaurs. I suggest that most of the popular concepts of evolution are not rooted in solid scientific evidence.

That's right, they just sat around and thought up a really clever excuse for not believing in God. And then they spread the lies to convert everyone to atheism.
 
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TruthTeller2005 said:
Darwin doubted his own theory as stated on page 280 of On the Origins of Species “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology surely does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” (note that the origin of this quote is page 226 of the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics)

Its a shame that since 1859 a great many more fossils have been found. All are considered to be transitional forms.
The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation.

In science 'theory' is about as well supported as things get.

The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.
Uh..Yes they do. Why else would our understanding of evolution be creating advances in medicine and biology? Does understanding of creationism reveal the same?

Consider the pictures of a fish, then an amphibian, then a reptile and then a mammal. They put arrow between these and state their theory like it was a PROVEN fact.

Do you even know what scientists DO? If what you've posted so far, you might not.

There is no evidence for any form of life that is part way between fish and amphibian.

Uhhhh......Lungfish?

There are zero missing links alive today or in the fossil record. These huge jumps are just a popular GUESS. The guess is based on their REASONING and WISHFUL thinking.

Yes, because EVERY fossil and creature alive is a 'missing link'.

Where are the millions of fossils that are the evidence of thousands of times all over the globe that mutations were BETWEEN the previous and next kind?
EVERY fossil is an example of 'between'.
Where are thousands of dead end evolutionary trails that did not make the macro jump?
Dead?


The textbooks and magazine articles have PAINTINGS that SEEM realistic. When I was a child the ARTISTS painted the dinosaurs very dull gray and green colors. In recent years the ARTISTS have been adding all kinds of vivid colors. I doubt that there is hard evidence for colorful or dull colored dinosaurs. I suggest that most of the popular concepts of evolution are not rooted in solid scientific evidence.

What do artists impressions of dinosaurs have to do with the scientists who study evolution?
Its like saying the bible is wrong because of editions that had erotic and 'dirty' engravings.
 
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TruthTeller2005 said:
Darwin doubted his own theory as stated on page 280 of On the Origins of Species “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology surely does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” (note that the origin of this quote is page 226 of the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics)

Creationist hint: When quote mining, try to be as vague as possible so that your deception is hard to reveal.
You took a quote from Darwin from a chapter when THE WHOLE CHAPTER is about answering the very problem you claim to have raised. One of the worst quote mines I've seen in a long time.

TruthTeller2005 said:
The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation. The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.

Consider the pictures of a fish, then an amphibian, then a reptile and then a mammal. They put arrow between these and state their theory like it was a PROVEN fact. There is no evidence for any form of life that is part way between fish and amphibian. There are zero missing links alive today or in the fossil record. These huge jumps are just a popular GUESS. The guess is based on their REASONING and WISHFUL thinking.

Of course there are no missing links. Once we find them they are found links. Creationists keep screaming about missing links. Look up Xeno's Paradox.

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Where are the millions of fossils that are the evidence of thousands of times all over the globe that mutations were BETWEEN the previous and next kind? Where are thousands of dead end evolutionary trails that did not make the macro jump?

A good explanation for this appears in the chapter YOU JUST LINKED!

TruthTeller2005 said:
The textbooks and magazine articles have PAINTINGS that SEEM realistic. When I was a child the ARTISTS painted the dinosaurs very dull gray and green colors. In recent years the ARTISTS have been adding all kinds of vivid colors. I doubt that there is hard evidence for colorful or dull colored dinosaurs. I suggest that most of the popular concepts of evolution are not rooted in solid scientific evidence.

Dinosaur skin colour doesn't survive fossilization. Colours are based on similarities between modern lizards. Some modern lizards are dull coloured, some are bright.

I suggest you learn the meaning of 'evolution' 'science' and 'evidence' before you start shooting down what you don't understand.
 
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Which of these are humans and which of these are apes, TruthTeller?

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TruthTeller2005 said:
Darwin doubted his own theory as stated on page 280 of On the Origins of Species “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology surely does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” (note that the origin of this quote is page 226 of the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics)

The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation. The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.

Consider the pictures of a fish, then an amphibian, then a reptile and then a mammal. They put arrow between these and state their theory like it was a PROVEN fact. There is no evidence for any form of life that is part way between fish and amphibian. There are zero missing links alive today or in the fossil record. These huge jumps are just a popular GUESS. The guess is based on their REASONING and WISHFUL thinking.

Where are the millions of fossils that are the evidence of thousands of times all over the globe that mutations were BETWEEN the previous and next kind? Where are thousands of dead end evolutionary trails that did not make the macro jump?

The textbooks and magazine articles have PAINTINGS that SEEM realistic. When I was a child the ARTISTS painted the dinosaurs very dull gray and green colors. In recent years the ARTISTS have been adding all kinds of vivid colors. I doubt that there is hard evidence for colorful or dull colored dinosaurs. I suggest that most of the popular concepts of evolution are not rooted in solid scientific evidence.


It's like there's some sort of creationist factory which spits out another one of these types of posters every few weeks.
 
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TruthTeller2005 said:
The THEORY of evolution is based on imaginative speculation. The evolutionists do not have tangible evidence to back up their fancy ideas.
Yes yes, you cracked the code, we're all talking out of our behinds here. I would be delighted to give you evidence for evolution and against Yec, but out of all the threads you started you haven't responded to none. You're not going to listen to me, and I'm not going to take you seriously either.
 
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Tomk80 said:
I don't get. The first thought I have when I see a title like "darwin doubted" my first thought is that apparantly Darwin was a very wise man. I don't get it. What is this creationist obsession that doubt is such a bad thing?

Because many of them are under the hilariously wrong impression that evolution is a religion with Charles Darwin as its central figure. Therefore they believe that discrediting, rumour milling, slandering etc Darwin will somehow by extension falsify evolution.
 
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Because many of them are under the hilariously wrong impression that evolution is a religion with Charles Darwin as its central figure. Therefore they believe that discrediting, rumour milling, slandering etc Darwin will somehow by extension falsify evolution.

I have a feeling if Darwin did not put forward his theories, the theory of evolution would still be proposed by the time DNA is discovered, or at the latest about 5 years after that.
 
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Kripost said:
I have a feeling if Darwin did not put forward his theories, the theory of evolution would still be proposed by the time DNA is discovered, or at the latest about 5 years after that.

Usually is the way with Science; a collective effort with individual glory as its prize.
 
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I have a feeling if Darwin did not put forward his theories, the theory of evolution would still be proposed by the time DNA is discovered, or at the latest about 5 years after that.

actually, alfred wallace was formulating a theory of natural selection at the same time as darwin. darwin just published first. my guess is if it wasn't for darwin, the same theory would have been proposed by wallace within 10 years of when darwin published.
 
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What about the Java man???:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :scratch: And by the way Darwin had a degree in theology not in science. and he read a book of charles Lyle who didnt have a scientific degree too.

What about Java man.

How many years did Darwin spend on the HMS Beagle? How many years did he devote his life studying natural science?

Do you even know who Charles Lyle is, and what his contributions to science were?
 
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