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"Life and its building blocks are way too complicated to have evolved." [moved]

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Roughly speaking....110 generations to 400 generations.
 
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Roughly speaking....110 generations to 400 generations.
Okay, so if you had 400 generations of ancestors, . . . Let's just take the low frequency mutations, since they couldn't have been present in Adam and Eve, and ignore the really rare ones, since they could have occurred after the population got large. Let's say those that are between 1% and 10% in the modern population. You're carrying roughly half a million genetic variants in that frequency range. Now remember, these had to occur while the population was still really small -- less than a few hundred, and that certainly wasn't true at any time in recorded history, say for the last 4500 years (180 generations). That leave 220 generations, meaning your ancestors were accumulating ~2000 mutations per generation. That's about 40 times higher than the actual human mutation rate, and would undoubtedly be lethal. So no, that doesn't seem very likely. (In reality, the bulk of higher frequency variants would also have to be the result of mutations, meaning the actual mutation would have to have been more like 5000 mutations per generation. And how did the population jump from a few hundred to tens of millions overnight, anyway?)

There's a reason professional creationists avoid ever actually explaining any genetic data.
 
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Plus another genetic bottleneck ~2000 years later.
 
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I admire your faith in evolutionism. You can't prove or demonstrate it....sheer faith.

Wow. Just wow. If you couldn't understand that Radrook does not accept evolution, then no wonder all the science stuff is going over your head.
 
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Clearly shown? By whom and what science? The "theory of evolution" nonsense? Sorry, but complex organisms do not evolve from nothing by themselves, regardless of how much time you allow.

Of course they don't. But since there is no proposition of "nothing" in evolution, your comment doesn't actually address evolution and it little more than a straw man.

Species adapt but do not "evolve" into an entirely new species.

Please give us a hypothetical example of what you mean by "an entirely new species". There are way to many Creationists out there who do not actually understand evolution and think it means something like a horse evolving into a cow or an iguana hatching a clutch of puppies when those things would actually falsify evolution.

By your reasoning, the city of New York that we see today could build itself without any human action, and that's just child's play compared to the complexity of all life on earth and the systems that support it. Please go!

When buildings start reproducing an passing along genetic material with mutations to offspring you might have an analogous comparison. Since they don't, however, your analogy fails.
 
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Dogs are not evolving.

With the exception of the selection pressure being artificial, the process by which dogs came about is not really all that different.

Do you even understand the definition of evolving?

I'm sure TQR does, and I know I do. Do you? Could you provide us with a brief definition in your own words?

Maybe dogs will "evolve" and lose their legs like snakes did, too.

Maybe, but only if there were not a negative selective pressure. Limb loss hasn't only happened in snakes, but in caecilians and the hind legs of whales. The genetic basis for that loss is understood.

Your lack of evidence is very telling.

Your lack of awareness of the evidence for evolution does not mean it does not exist.
(Please note this is Google Scholar, not regular Google.)
Human evolution - 4.1 million hits.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=human+evolution&btnG=&as_sdt=1,31&as_sdtp=
Dog evolution - 730,000 hits.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=dog+evolution&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,31
Snake evolution - 265,000 hits.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=snake+evolution&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,31
Whale evolution - 99,800 hits.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=whale+evolution&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,31
Caecilian evolution - 5,900 hits.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=caecilian+evolution&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,31
 
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Your petty monkey insult was ignored,

No it wasn't, you just did the equivalent of telling me it wasn't. Funny stuff. And it wasn't my intention to insult the monkeys, but I can see how you read it as such.
 
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Survival of a species from a mutation(which you say is random) does not get us from apes to humans.

Humans are apes. And please, do go on. Tell us how mutations do not get us from our common ancestor with our fellow apes to us.

Oh, not the fossils and carbon-dating nonsense again... thought up by a bunch of knuckleheads that want to push the evolution theory. I thought it was common knowledge that carbon-dating is only accurate back to a couple of thousand years?

I don't see where @JonFromMinnesota mentioned radiocarbon dating. Perhaps you could highlight were he did so? That said, the man who developed radiocarbon dating did so to assist anthropology and paleontology, not evolution. He also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for doing so and worked on the Manhattan Project.

What are your credentials that put you in a postion to refer to him as a "knucklehead"?
 
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I assume you have received medical care from a doctor before. Have you ever asked them, if they agree with evolution and what role it has played in modern medicine?

He didn't ask you to find a doctor who did not accept evolution. He asked you if you asked your doctor. Why do Creationists have such a hard time answering a simple question?
 
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I see a lot of yap flapping, but very little addressing of evidence. Here, let's try this. Is this skull "fully ape" or "fully human" and why do you conclude as you do?
 
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Wow, great argument bro. Mt St Helens provided us with proof for that.

Yes, Mount Saint Helens did provide "proof" that a Flood cannot turn sea shells and other things into rock in a single year.
 
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What does this hearsay and rumor mongering have to do with the fact that evolution plays an important role in biomedical studies?
 
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You know what wouldn't expect to find? Wait, why am I asking.. of course you don't.

Feel free to explain, in your own words, why we find the following in the supposed "Flood strata".
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How does a Flood explain subaerial igneous intrusions?
How does a Flood address all the heat that would be produced by the formation of limestone?
How does the Flood explain trace fossils?
How does the Flood explain faunal succession?
How does the Flood explain 60,000 varve layers in Lake Suigetsu and hundreds of thousands of layers in ice cores?
How does the Flood explain glacial erosion and deposits?
How does Flood explain eolian deposits and paleosols?
How does the Flood explain meanders like Horseshoe bend?
How does the Flood explain the different states of erosion exhibited by different mountain ranges?
How does the Flood explain batholiths?
How does the Flood explain 23,0000 years worth of Helium3 buildup on rocks in the Atacama desert?
Why did RATE admit there was 500,000,000 years worth of radioactive decay in the geological record?
 
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This is really not a reasonable response. Perhaps because there were no seashells there?

And yet you claimed that Mount Saint Helens provided "proof" that seashells could be turned into stone in a year.
Wow, great argument bro. Mt St Helens provided us with proof for that.

By the way, seashells are made of calcium- something, which is already 'stone'.I'm not responsible for your ignorance.

 
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I can post a picture of a fossilized hat. Now I don't think it happened in a year. But it could of.

No you can't. That hat isn't fossilized. It's encased. Do you even understand what fossilization is?
 
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The purpose was to remind readers that you have a track record of refusing to address evidence and admitting that you don't understand said evidence, it seems your participation in these threads is purely to derail and obfuscate. That quote was from a thread specifically created to provide you with evidence which you consequently hand waved away or ignored, preferring instead to fall back on your vacuous rhetoric. If you want evidence for evolution please go back to that thread.
 
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There were man-made objects found embedded in solid lumps of coal, so either mankind is hundreds of millions of years old(not!), or we do not have a very clear picture of how these things were formed and the specific environment involved.

They aren't. What you are describing is referred to as Forteana and nearly every example has a poor chain of custody. Further most of the claims are from the 1800s into the early 1900s.

A great example of this is the so-called Coso artifact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact
 
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