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Do they have a secret agenda too?

You mean does an Atheists have a secret agenda to disprove God?

Are you really asking me to answer that, that which is no secret at all.

It is really not anyone's duty to give you evidence on a silver platter.

I've heard that cop out before..."It's true but not my job to explain it"

Anyone who can't see through that one didn't evolve fully.
 
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They do! Then why did you not say 'yes' to the rest of my post and instead decide to ignore it. They are logical conclusions after all. Have your eyes not evolved fully or did you read my post by putting part of it in your blind spot (see, I can do it too)?
Well, it isn't my job. But it is a teacher's job. And if you've been on this forums a long time, you must have seen link to stuff like
An introduction to evolution
I've seen this at least 10 times from people who gave it on a silver platter. But you know, they didn't feed you, I guess.
 
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They do! Then why did you not say 'yes' to the rest of my post and instead decide to ignore it.

Huh?

You seem confused, first you act as if there is no agenda, then you answer "they do" have one.

And what that had to do with my answering the rest of your post is beyond me. One thing at a time.

I tried a few links early on but they never convinced me so I refused to waste any more time with them and now ask that others put their proof here on the table.

Can you prove evolution?
 
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Note to self: Don't use sarcasm on the internet
There are evolutionary biologists who belong to a religion. Do they have a secret agenda too? Is there a meeting to tell them to join the secret agenda when they pursue research in evolution?
This is the part I was talking about. Because your claim seems like a conspiracy theory.
Well, technically speaking, I can't prove it, only verify it. But if I were to explain it, it wouldn't be possible on text. You need a teacher. Which is why I suggest you do the free course on genetics and evolution by coursera. Or get another teacher.
 
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1. If nothing explodes it doesn't create everything.
Explosions don't create, they destroy.
Nothing can't even explode.
Moreover if there were laws before there was anything, who gave the laws?

2. Life can not come from non life.

3. If fish were to mass suicide on water and birds would grow limbs without flight. That completely defies evolution.
Birds with half as limbs would put themselves in a disadvantage running from predators, so the species would die.

4. A complex structure like a rainforest can't come into existence throughout evolution. If you would remove a few herbivores/carnivores the structure would collapse. Certain species/plants would run rampant. Destroying it. Hence everything must've come into existence at the same time.

From https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-world-is-losing-its-large-predators-and-thats-a-1498088101


No doubt, these predators, often considered a headache, provide essential services to both ecologies and the environment. The loss of certain large carnivores, including African lions, leopards, Eurasian lynx, cougars, gray wolves, sea otters and dingoes, is resulting in widespread "trophic cascades."

Owing to a decline in cougars and wolves, for example, researchers have seen a dramatic increase in herbivores like deer and elk, causing disruptions to vegetation, birds, and small mammals, along with changes to other parts of the ecosystem. In environments experiencing vegetation loss, for example, researchers have observed increased soil erosion.



See? Simple. Evolution is a fairytale.
 
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Science can't abandon the ToE; it's "their baby". Besides they paid good money to study it. To not believe it would make a mockery of their education.

Oh please, i paid good money for an education, and get paid a ton more as a scientist doing work that isn't dependent upon it. But i still support it because common sense has settled the debate.
 
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After being in such an environment for months one evening while laying on my bed reading Nikki Cruises "Run Baby Run"
I took this book down to the county jail and the boys absolutely loved it, As did I. Awesome testimony and Nikki has reached many with his ministry.
 
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Plate tectonics actually is a pretty good analogous concept. Many creationists still reject plate tectonics to this day, in the sense that continents have been slowly drifting for millions of years. And in the past, many rejected it because it was occurring so slowly, that laymen weren't aware that it was occurring.

It is truly the same thing with evolution.
 
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1. If nothing explodes it doesn't create everything.
Explosions don't create, they destroy.
Nothing can't even explode.
Moreover if there were laws before there was anything, who gave the laws?

The Big Bang is not evolution so you are already off the rails. Second it was not an explosion. If you want to argue against something you really should try to understand it. Arguing against something that you do not understand will only result in embarrassment at best. By the way, why assume that there was a "someone" to write the laws in the first place?

2. Life can not come from non life.

Really? This has never been proven at all. Please don't bring up the work of Pasteur, that will only demonstrate that you do not understand what his experiments proved.

3. If fish were to mass suicide on water and birds would grow limbs without flight. That completely defies evolution.
Birds with half as limbs would put themselves in a disadvantage running from predators, so the species would die.

And you can't refute a species with a strawman. Examples of dinosaurs with "half a wing" have been found. There are other uses to feathered limbs than flight only. Oviraptor is such an example. Its feathered arms assist in brooding. A larger number of offspring hatching at once is a positive trait that aids in survival. There are other examples as well. But if you can't accept one clear one then the problem is not with the theory.


Another unsupported claim. Sorry but all variations of irreducible complexity have been refuted. This one is simple. Losing a species now could be disastrous. But that is because of an interlocking dependency that has evolved over time. When the forest first grew the dependencies of today did not exist. The evolved along with the forests.

No, your strawman version is a fairy tale. Do you really think that you can refute a theory based upon your mischaracterizations of it? Could a Muslim refute Christianity by misrepresenting what and who Jesus was? In the same sense you can't refute science by misstating how life works.
 
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Hey! Evolution can be really slow! What do you expect a crocoduck!
 
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*snip list of PRATTs*

See? Simple. Evolution is a fairytale.

Yeah, you already seem a bit in over your head.

In fact, everything you wrote can be addressed first by understanding what the Theory of Evolution is (and also what it isn't), as well as just getting a better conceptual understanding how evolution works.

I'd recommend starting here: Welcome to Evolution 101!

And here: An Index to Creationist Claims
 
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Ahahahahaha
 
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I'm sure in another ten years things in here will be exactly the same. People will still be making unfounded claims, still be creating strawmen and still be ignorant of facts on so many levels.

Even worse.... not only will they still be making unfounded claims, they will be making the same unfounded claims that they are making right now, which have been corrected and explained time and time again.

I can't even count the amount of times that a particular strawman has been addressed on one page, only to see the same strawman pop up again by the same poster a couple pages further in the thread.
 
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Science can't abandon the ToE; it's "their baby". Besides they paid good money to study it. To not believe it would make a mockery of their education.

That's another one of those ridiculous assertions that keeps coming up: the claim of a massive conspiracy among thousands, if not millions, of scientists around the world.
 
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