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It's mathematically based of course.
Math, in the form of 'odds against' is excluded from the discussion.
I mean intuition. Even before I 'got religion' I couldn't see how evolution was true.
Intuition is beyond worthless in science, though.
I'd hate to imagine that Charles Darwin didn't have a wee drop of it. In fact, I'm pretty sure he had a whole ocean of it, as he sailed in his wee boat.
It's not a bad way to reach the starting point, but if you actually want to draw conclusions, you need actual evidence. Intuition must constantly be checked by experience and evidence, lest we fall into numerous traps with it. It is intuitive that you could not evolve something as complex as the bacterial flagellum, and yet we have a strong evidence base pointing out how it could have happened. It is intuitive that light shot through two slits should leave two slits of light on the wall, but instead we see an interference pattern. It is intuitive that everything must have a cause, and yet quantum physics shows us that this kind of breaks down at the micro level. Intuition is worthless if not backed up by actual evidence.
'.... It is intuitive that everything must have a cause, ....'
'....Intuition is worthless if not backed up by actual evidence.
We know.Tomorrows evidence which relates to Evolution will change what we think now --
Yes, the word of God.
I don't what you mean there.
It is mathematical in the sense that any genetic trait that confers a reproductive advantage will eventually dominate a population.
So before you 'got religion' you felt (intuited) it was untrue, but now you've consider all the lines of evidence which relate to Evolution and you think God did it that way. Correct?
I meant the odds against a simple organism changing into a complex one.
I believe that God created these organisms as they appear in the fossil record. The more complex they are seen to be the less likely it is that they evolved in a haphazard, purposeless manner.
You are still talking about an accumulation of small changes. The progress of those changes is a mathematical function, plain and simple.
Yes, the word of God.
Despite what modern translators might think.
No pictures?'For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.'
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