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Loggerhead Turtles Defy Evolutionary Explanation

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Organisms exhibit the same type of limited adaptability found in ceiling fans when reproduction is taken into consideration.

Why are you using the word adaptability? Do you not know what the word means?
 
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The genetic code is changing just like the speed setting is changing. But they are limited.
The genetic code very rarely changes.

Pet hate of mine, this is. Everyone keeps using that word, but it doesn't mean what they think it means.
 
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The genetic code very rarely changes.

Pet hate of mine, this is. Everyone keeps using that word, but it doesn't mean what they think it means.

"I do not think that word means what you think it means..."

I will no longer use that word. Thanks.
 
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But how did those DNA-creating enzymes come about? It is impossibly circular for the evolutionist, since those enzymes require the existence of DNA to code for their formation. Explain that!
 
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But how did those DNA-creating enzymes come about? It is impossibly circular for the evolutionist, since those enzymes require the existence of DNA to code for their formation. Explain that!
No, they don't require DNA. RNA is perfectly fine, so long as there's a genetic code to translate it. Presumably, DNA polymerases came from RNA polymerases, which replaced RNA polymerases that were made of RNA themselves. (You didn't watch the video, did you? The whole thing is precisely about that - how proteins encoded by a genome might have come about in an RNA world.)

The solution for the DNA/enzyme chicken/egg problem (that RNA can play both roles) was proposed decades ago, so it's about time to stop pretending it doesn't exist.
 
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And there are some things creationists can't explain...yet. So, you see, both positions require faith.

Since when? I have yet to see a creationist say they couldn't explain anything.

So far it's all goddidit.
 
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And there are some things creationists can't explain...yet. So, you see, both positions require faith.
this tired old argument? only one side requires faith (the creationists). The other side only makes claims when it has the evidence.

so you see, your wrong.
 
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And there are some things creationists can't explain...yet. So, you see, both positions require faith.

Actually, there isn't anything creationists can explain... yet or ever. You never progress in understanding anything, once you accept Goddidit.
 
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this tired old argument? only one side requires faith (the creationists). The other side only makes claims when it has the evidence.

so you see, your wrong.
The claim of the evolutionist is that the vertebrate eye would be better fitted to life if it were created by an intelligent source. Since I suppose you would consider yourself intelligent (as opposed to the brute force of natural selection), please support this claim with evidence that there is a better design to be found that man would be capable of creating.
 
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I'll admit I may have been wrong in asserting that the origin of DNA is "impossibly circular". But what about the origin of DNA repair enzymes? They require DNA information to exist, yet they repair errors in DNA which would then rely on the repair enzyme. So this, I believe it would be safe to say, is at least almost impossibly circular. And this is only beginning to get into the problems of the origin of the first living cell, something not required of evolution, per se, but of the atheistic evolutionist nonetheless.

Yes. God did do it. But that doesn't make genetic research and engineering uninteresting or unnecessary to a creationist.
 
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there are two things wrong with your question. FIRST you say vetebrate eye when you should be talking about the human eye. You must already know human eyes suck and are unwilling to defend it. And second showing that humans can make a better eye does nothing to show evolution. Just like when scientists made a compound with the conditions required for new life, creationtists rebutted with "see its designed", indicating that the scientist set up the conditions ignoring the fact the conditions easily can come about through nature.

but to answer your question, contacts and glasses, night vision goggles.

but what are earth do you mean by brute force of evolution?
 
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