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Evolution's Brick Wall: Part II

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But that’s not what he told you he believes. He didn’t say Kind was an inside out genus, but equaled it. I disagree with him but how you equate same to mean different is beyond me..... how can you claim to understand what a genus is but can’t understand what Kind means (according to him) is what is not understandable.

Where did I say they were different? I never used that word.

If I say x = y, then why are you having so much trouble understanding what the value of x is if you already understand what the value of y is? Or is it you just don’t want to understand the value of x as equaling y?

The concept is fine. But when the idea of two things being equal raises contradictions, there's a problem.

For example, if we said that X was defined by God and has never changed, whereas Y was invented by Humans and has changed several times, can we still say they are identical?
 
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And yet you were opposed to classifying apes with apes......

That rubbish is from your end, you are seeing your own reflection...

No, I am opposed to your weird notion that all apes should be in the Gibbon family.

Does that mean that I think "apes are humans and humans are apes...."? To anyone who can actually understand English the answer would be no.
 
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Dogma, you are trying to prove fossil arrangement by use of 4 fossils to prove the complete evolution of mammals morphing from land to marine mammals.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

I'm saying that here we have a theory, called Evolution, and the evolutionary history of wales coming from land mammals.

And here we have fossils depicting the exact morphology that we would expect if that theory is accurate. Not just the specific anatomy of those fossils, but also the place, the rock, they were found in, but also the dating of thing makes perfect sense in context of evolution theory.

You apparantly disagree that these fossils support the predictions of evolution theory.

I'm asking why. I'm asking why this fossil sequence can't be called transitionals.
What is the problem? Why do you disagree that these fossils support the predictions of theory. Which predictions don't they support and explain whow they don't.

Use of 4 fossils is a clear stretch-claim one evolved into the other and show land to marine evolution occurred.

How do these fossils not support the idea that wales evolved from land animals?
Are these kinds of fossils exactly the kinds of fossils one would expect to find, if a land animal species gradually evolved into the wale species?

You state "the theory predicts." Showing 4 fossils with such a statement is not evidence.

That's actually the very definition of evidence.

If a land animal species with 4 limbs gradually evolves into sea animal species with flippers over millions of years, then we expect to find fossils over the course of those millions of years of limbs that show morphological change from "feet-like" to "flipper-like".

The younger, the more "flipper-like".
The older, the more "feet-like".

How do these fossils not match those predictions in both locality as well as feature set?

Isolated creatures of different environments arranged by evolutionists to claim land to marine evolution does not fly.

Ignoring the very fossils in front of your nose and/or handwaving them away nonensical one-liners, does not fly.

How do the fossils in the picture not match the predictions of evolution theory concerning wale evolution from land ancestors?

The creatures in their environments were isolated.

This makes no sense as an objection.


One needs fossils of one changing into the other to confirm the claim.

How does the sequence in the picture not show exactly that?

It needs to be faced: the fossils that show one fossil changing into the next fossil are missing.

How is it missing? It is right there in the picture.
How do those fossils not exhibit change from old to young?

Evolution lacks the detailed fossil record supportive evidence

I just showed you exactly such fossils and I also explained how they are supportive evidence.

Your response so far, can be summarized as "na-ah!!!".


They are wild claims to state/claim/or try to prove the anatomy of each of the 4 fossils are morphologically similar in a sequential order that shows evolution happened.

How do the fossils not show exactly the progression that evolution expects there to be?

That would be called a Macro-evolution claim.
Macro-evolution claims do not fly; that is not proof of evolution ocurred.

I don't care what you call it.

Calling it differently, won't make it go away.
How do the fossils in the picture not match the predictions of evolution theory concerning wale evolution?

Only claims from 4 distinctly different fossils that one evolved from the other, even if time sequence is determined, does not fly. They are words used to state a claim. The real evidence, fossils, are missing.

I just explained to you how these 4 are supportive of the theory.... the theory predicts their existance and lo and behold, there they are.

So, how don't they match the predictions of the theory?

You are missing fossil evidence and are trying to Macro claim your way to state evolution happened. You are following the path of other over-promoters before you.
The only thing that I am claiming, is that these fossils are completely within the expectations of the theory.

The theory makes predictions about what type of fossils we should be finding in what time periods, and the fossils in the picture are exactly those kinds of fossils.

That makes them supportive evidence of the theory.
You disagree. Why?

What predictions of the theory don't they match?

Science is based on factual evidence. Where are the fossils between the macro-assemblages representatives? They do not exist.

They do exist. They are shown in the picture.
The ones in the middle are the fossils between the "macro-assemblages representatives" the the left and right.

So, how do these fossils not match the predictions of the theory?

If the fossils are not found between the 4 listed creatures then any claim such fossils did occur between one of the 4 creatures is mere claims without due evidence.

Haaaaaa, there we go....
You want "in between" fossils of the "in betweens" shown in the picture.
And when you get those, you'll ask for "in betweens" of the "in betweens" and repeat the same nonsense statements as always.
And when you get those, you'll ask for "in betweens" of the "in betweens" of the "in betweens".

And so it will continue.

Exacly like I said in my previous post.
Each time a newly discovered fossil fills a gap, you'll complain about 2 new "gaps".


Meanwhile..... the fossils under discussion here, are the 4 fossils shown in the pciture.
Meanwhile.... those 4 fossils are exactly what is expect in both age and morphology, if evolution theory and wale origins is accurate.
Meanwhile.... those 4 fossils are 100% consistent with an evolutionary history of a land mammal evolving into modern wales.

I'll just state it once more, since you also don't seem to get that part:
Making a fossil is hard. There's no guarantee of any species ever fossilizing at all. We are lucky to have as many fossils as we do. And the fossils that we have are completely consistent with the predictions of evolution theory.

Just like these 4.
You are welcome to still try and point out how these 4 do not match the predictions of evolution.


But I will not be holding my breath. You have once again demonstrated the sheer dishonesty by which you are approaching this subject. It is pathetic and embarassing.

If evolution occurred, then there would be a complete string sequence between the 4 fossils,

Why? As explained multiple times already, there is no guarantee of fossilization at all.
There's also still quite a few fossils out there waiting to be discovered off course.

We can only work with the fossils that we DO have.
And all those fossils, bar none, all match the predictions of evolution. As it should be.
You disagree apparantly. The question is why.

The 4 shown in the picture, how don't they match the predictions of the theory?

showing one evolved into the other: no mere words needed. It would be shown by fossils.

Like the ones in the picture....

You cannot by reason or conclusion statements produce evidence.

It's a good thing that we don't then.
We produce evidence by testable predictions.
Evolution of wales predicts fossils of land limbs progressing into flippers over time.
And that's exactly what the fossils in the picture show. The younger, the more flipper-like. The older, the more leg-like. With "intermediate" stages where it has characteristics of both feel and flippers.

So, again, what's the problem?



I've completely lost count about how many times I asked you by now to actually address the fossils shown in the picture.

Are you gonna?
 
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Nor by those insisting we accept imaginary missing common ancestor for every single claimed split on every single tree.
You have studiously avoided every question I have posed to you regarding this mantra-like slogan of yours.

Why do you think that a specific 'missing common ancestor' is necessary to demonstrate a linkage?

I'm betting that you have no idea who your great great great great grandfather was, does that mean that you have no 5th cousins? And can I dismiss such relations unless you can produce the corpse of that great great great great grandfather?

What you seem to believe is some sort of 'gotcha' is really just an admission of naivete.

I know it’s hard to admit the fossils for every creature remain the same across millions of years and the only way they are linked is imaginations of the mind.

And you believe in Yahweh, right? And that Yahweh breathed into dust and a fully formed adult human male emerged, right?

And that after a woman was made from his side, they mated and after a few generations we had Asians and Africans and Inuuit and Nordic folk and Polynesians and so on - all with no mutation, right?

Please do not lecture others about "imaginations of the mind."
 
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And apes are apes and humans are humans and don’t even share the same family.
The imaginations of your mind are the only thing that says this.
The evidence says otherwise.
But then that’s why you have to insert that missing common ancestor to link two separate creatures together.
No such thing has ever occurred. The evidence indicates relationships, whether a specific ancestor can be found in the fossil record or not.

Speaking of missing common ancestors, I notice that you cannot produce the common ancestor of Asians and Africans. I mean other than from the imaginations of your mind.
Lesser apes, lol.

Hylobatidae is a genus, LOL!
See, can’t even bring yourself to admit a lesser or greater ape is still an ape....

See, you can't even bring yourself to admit to trivial errors of ignorance....
 
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It needs to be faced: the fossils that show one fossil changing into the next fossil are missing.
That you are 100% ignorant of development is a given, but what on earth do you even think you mean with that question?
"One fossil changing into the next fossil"???
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You are out of your depth, I am afraid.
 
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You have studiously avoided every question I have posed to you regarding this mantra-like slogan of yours.

Why do you think that a specific 'missing common ancestor' is necessary to demonstrate a linkage?

I'm betting that you have no idea who your great great great great grandfather was, does that mean that you have no 5th cousins? And can I dismiss such relations unless you can produce the corpse of that great great great great grandfather?

What you seem to believe is some sort of 'gotcha' is really just an admission of naivete.

I'm not the one claiming my great great great great grandfather was anything other than human just as we see today......


And you believe in Yahweh, right? And that Yahweh breathed into dust and a fully formed adult human male emerged, right?
And what have you got? Experiments that lasted a few hours then dissolved away into nothing. null result after null result. Not showing it's possibility, but in fact it's impossibility..... Despite evolutionary PR hype to the contrary. We all know what null results mean.... At least in real life.

And that after a woman was made from his side, they mated and after a few generations we had Asians and Africans and Inuuit and Nordic folk and Polynesians and so on - all with no mutation, right?

Please do not lecture others about "imaginations of the mind."

Lets see, we mated wolves, and after a few generations we had Husky, Mastiff, poodle, Irish Sitter and Blood Hound and Pugs and Dobermans and on and on and on.... What's your problem with reality?????? And even if there were a few mutations, they are still all dogs...................... I know, now comes the magic words "over millions of years"............ but sadly for you mutations have never created anything new. It simply rewrites in a new order what already exists as a possibility within the genome....... so dogs remain dogs...... bacteria remain bacteria...... fruit flies remain fruit flies....... and on and on and on.......

But then I am not the one claiming they were anything but humans. You are, so prove it or stop with the imaginations of the mind.......

I know, that's because you keep ignoring that breeding is two to three orders of magnitude greater at producing new genetic variation that mutations. We have already discussed your unwillingness to face reality....
 
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I'm not the one claiming my great great great great grandfather was anything other than human just as we see today......
No, you are the one crying about DNA ancestry kits and such.

Why do you think that a specific 'missing common ancestor' is necessary to demonstrate a linkage?

I'm betting that you have no idea who your great great great great grandfather was, does that mean that you have no 5th cousins? And can I dismiss such relations unless you can produce the corpse of that great great great great grandfather?

What you seem to believe is some sort of 'gotcha' is really just an admission of naivete.


And what have you got? Experiments that lasted a few hours then dissolved away into nothing. null result after null result. Not showing it's possibility, but in fact it's impossibility..... Despite evolutionary PR hype to the contrary. We all know what null results mean.... At least in real life.
I have no idea what any of that is supposed to be referring to, and I suspect you don't, either.

After all, it was not me that wrote:

"And yet a C inserted where a T was is exactly single-nucleotide polymorphism, which we have already found in another thread is caused by random changes during development, or as the Grants discovered, was caused by interactions during interbreeding..."

Lets see, we mated wolves, and after a few generations we had Husky, Mastiff, poodle, Irish Sitter and Blood Hound and Pugs and Dobermans and on and on and on.... What's your problem with reality??????
And that was possible via a mechanism that you insist, with zero justification, does not happen.
And even if there were a few mutations, they are still all dogs...................... I know, now comes the magic words "over millions of years"............ but sadly for you mutations have never created anything new.
Well, except for those Husky, Mastiff, poodle, Irish Sitter and Blood Hound and Pugs and Dobermans and on and on and on.
It simply rewrites in a new order what already exists as a possibility within the genome.
What do you mean "rewrites"? What do you mean "in a new order"?
...... so dogs remain dogs...... bacteria remain bacteria...... fruit flies remain fruit flies....... and on and on and on.......

But then I am not the one claiming they were anything but humans. You are, so prove it or stop with the imaginations of the mind......

I know, that's because you keep ignoring that breeding is two to three orders of magnitude greater at producing new genetic variation that mutations. We have already discussed your unwillingness to face reality....
No, I have already exposed your inability to understand the very things you link to and quote. The 'new' alleles that had that greater impact on phenotype were themselves the product of mutation, as you very own quote indicates:



"We may add one more difference between a mutated allele and one introduced by hybridization. The mutated allele has been altered randomly, whereas the one introduced by hybridization has been shaped by natural selection, albeit in a differentiated genome (deleterious mutations have been purged and any beneficial mutations gone to fixation by selection)."



That you ignore/dismiss/can't understand that is a given - a common creationist design flaw.

But you believe in Yahweh, right? And that Yahweh breathed into dust and a fully formed adult human male emerged, right?

And that after a woman was made from his side, they mated and after a few generations we had Asians and Africans and Inuuit and Nordic folk and Polynesians and so on - all with no mutation, right?

Please do not lecture others about "imaginations of the mind."
 
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The concept is fine. But when the idea of two things being equal raises contradictions, there's a problem.

For example, if we said that X was defined by God and has never changed, whereas Y was invented by Humans and has changed several times, can we still say they are identical?

Except God said Kind after Kind, not man. And finches mating right in front of their noses are still finches... The exact same “Kind” they started out as.

I do agree with you though. Whereas species was invented by humans and has changed with up to 26 definitions, we could never say they are identicle. Just because man can’t get things sorted properly, does not mean there isn’t a proper sorting order.......

I also agree that genus is too broad and does not represent Kind accurately. Several birds are listed a separate Kinds, so all birds are not of one Kind... same with grasshopper and every other you care to name.... although others of similar form but of a different Kind may no longer exist..... for example, all wolves and hence dogs are of one Kind, but this does not mean that all wolf-like appearing animals are of the same Kind as wolves. Just as the Hawk is not the same Kind as the Owl, even though both are Aves.....
 
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And didn't I say that? I never said that there was a 100% accurate clear cut well defined definition of species that always works no matter what.

But the fact that ligers are, on average, not as fertile as lions or tigers is evidence that lions and tigers are evolving away from their common ancestor.
i think that its just evidence for genetic isolation.
 
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i think that its just evidence for genetic isolation.

It's evidence for extinction...... The Liger can not even mate with itself anymore, but only its parents.... So the minute the parents (Lions and Tigers) no longer mate, the Liger goes extinct....... That line has reached the end of it's variability that was possible within the genome. It is at the end of the "Kind" barrier, and hence instead of what evolutionists would expect (a new Kind) we have an extinction event in the making.... because one Kind does not become a new Kind. The Liger has smashed into that "Brick Wall" head on..... Their falsification of evolution is staring them in the face, yet they refuse to "see" it.....

How so? This seems like a rather vague statement.
See above....
 
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It's evidence for extinction...... The Liger can not even mate with itself anymore, but only its parents.... So the minute the parents (Lions and Tigers) no longer mate, the Liger goes extinct....... That line has reached the end of it's variability that was possible within the genome. It is at the end of the "Kind" barrier, and hence instead of what evolutionists would expect (a new Kind) we have an extinction event in the making.... because one Kind does not become a new Kind. The Liger has smashed into that "Brick Wall" head on..... Their falsification of evolution is staring them in the face, yet they refuse to "see" it.....


See above....
No, you have a faulty understanding of the concept of "species". The liger never was a species.
 
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No, you have a faulty understanding of the concept of "species". The liger never was a species.

Says the person with the faulty understanding of species that they list Lions and Tigers as separate species.........

I already know the Liger is the same "species" as both the Lion and Tiger.......

It's you all that have the understanding problem.......

Just as I understand all those finches mating in front of their eyes are the same species......

Here is their Fairy Tale: "The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species."

So which species is it? It can't be both...... "Species: P. leo? × P. tigris?"

Either it is a new species or you admit Tigers and Lions are the same species......
 
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Except God said Kind after Kind, not man. And finches mating right in front of their noses are still finches... The exact same “Kind” they started out as.

I do agree with you though. Whereas species was invented by humans and has changed with up to 26 definitions, we could never say they are identicle. Just because man can’t get things sorted properly, does not mean there isn’t a proper sorting order.......

I also agree that genus is too broad and does not represent Kind accurately. Several birds are listed a separate Kinds, so all birds are not of one Kind... same with grasshopper and every other you care to name.... although others of similar form but of a different Kind may no longer exist..... for example, all wolves and hence dogs are of one Kind, but this does not mean that all wolf-like appearing animals are of the same Kind as wolves. Just as the Hawk is not the same Kind as the Owl, even though both are Aves.....

So then we are left with the same problem. If I see two animals, what test can I do to check if they are the same kind or not?
 
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i think that its just evidence for genetic isolation.

AH! So two populations which are genetically isolated!

Tell me, if we take a single group and divide it into two groups which are genetically isolated, what will happen to them?
 
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So then we are left with the same problem. If I see two animals, what test can I do to check if they are the same kind or not?
1. Look and see if they are the same genus.

2. See if they can produce fertile offspring, which can produce fertile offspring.
 
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