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The problem is that life forms a nested hierarchy, human inventions don't. With a lawn mower, you could actually use certain parts on other machines. Human inventions can have interchangeable parts. You can take things out of future models or put new things in whenever you want.

With a nested heirarchy, that's not possible.
 
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Well, that works for the things that aren't flawed. But what about the common flaws? Take, for example, the broken vitamin c gene we still have but doesn't work any more, and that broken gene is shared among the primates.

No common designer would recopy a bad gene that doesn't do anything over and over. Common descent, however, explains that among the primates.

Take, for example, the ear wiggling muscles, ubiquitous among the mammals. You see your dog use them every day. You have them and cannot use them. Common descent explains this. Intelligent designer keeping up a common function with common design does not explain this.
 
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Some people can use those muscles a little bit, but yeah, that activity is not useful besides for some short lived entertainment in our species.
 
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Oh, don't forget the other, more specific details about the end of the world in the bible. It says a bunch of stuff will happen before the world is finally destroyed too.
No the worlds not destroyed. Luckily Jesus comes back before that one.
 
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Not really again. If its the same gene made in both then it will be bad in both because its bad.

Take, for example, the ear wiggling muscles, ubiquitous among the mammals. You see your dog use them every day. You have them and cannot use them. Common descent explains this. Intelligent designer keeping up a common function with common design does not explain this.[/quote]
The trouble is you keep finding the things that suit that theory. There are a lot that dont. So your a Chritian so you dont believe in Adam and Eve then. What about Jesus.
 
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Some people can use those muscles a little bit, but yeah, that activity is not useful besides for some short lived entertainment in our species.

You can use the exact same argument with crying tears. Broken genes doesn't disprove design no more a broken computer does. Would you claim a broken computer automatically means it wasn't designed?
 
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Except that it's not a case of someone who said, "Hey, that worked well on those animals, I might use them on Humans as well." It is a case where the best explanation is that there was an ancestral species that had these features before splitting into two groups and then evolving. The gene that gives Humans type O blood is more closely related to the gene that gives Chimps type O blood than it is to the gene that gives Humans Type A blood.

Common designer is not able to answer questions like these.


You don't actually understand how it works, do you?

Do you think that all human skeletons look alike?


Do you understand WHY they were given different species names? Because they had different features. If all you had was the imprint of a shape of a caterpillar and of a butterfly, wouldn't you also conclude that they were different?

And yet, I find it curious that you discount the scientific explanation and claim that science has it wrong, and yet you are happy to use scientific information when it suits you to.
 
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The trouble is you keep finding the things that suit that theory. There are a lot that dont. So your a Chritian so you dont believe in Adam and Eve then. What about Jesus.

If humans didn't have the vitamin c pseudogene do you think this would falsify evolution? If humans couldn't wiggle their ears would this falsify evolution?
When evolution make a prediction which happens to be true is it evidence for evolution but when it prediction turns out false it's evidence for co-evolution.

It's "heads we win and tails you lose" theory.
 
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What would falsify evolution is something that evolution says is impossible.

Can you show me that such a thing has happened?
 
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We look the way we look because God made us that way and primates look the way they look because God made them that way.
 
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Typical. No actual response, so you start suggesting that perhaps I think a process can speak.

You know what I meant, now address the point and stop playing games.

And there is the problem. It's evolution says and not evolutionist says. It's still "Heads we win and tails you lose".
 
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And there is the problem. It's evolution says and not evolutionist says. It's still "Heads we win and tails you lose".

Are you really going to insist on playing childish games?

Fine, be that way.

What would falsify evolution is something is impossible with the processes of evolution.

Now, show me something which is impossible with the processes of evolution and stop playing silly word games.
 
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Are you really going to insist on playing childish games?

Fine, be that way.
What make you think I'm playing a game?
What would falsify evolution is something is impossible with the processes of evolution.

Now, show me something which is impossible with the processes of evolution and stop playing silly word games.
Since we are a long way of fully understanding the developmental biology no one knows what those "processes of evolution" could be.
As of now we don't have anything to falsify.
Whenever they find anything that is not predicted by evolution they simply slap the "co-evolution" title on it.

Since evolution explains both similarities and differences at the same time so there is nothing to falsify it. It's still "heads we win and tails you lose".
 
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What make you think I'm playing a game?

The fact you are twisting my words. Or are you doing that in all seriousness?

Since we are a long way of fully understanding the developmental biology no one knows what those "processes of evolution" could be.

Yes we do. https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sou...ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what causes evolution

As of now we don't have anything to falsify.

Rubbish. If evolution was true, then we could not find a fossil rabbit in the precambrian. If we found a rabbit there, it would falsify evolution.

You apparently don't understand what "falisfy" means.

Whenever they find anything that is not predicted by evolution they simply slap the "co-evolution" title on it.

And you don't understand evolution either. How would "co-evolution" explain a fossil rabbit in the precambrian?

Since evolution explains both similarities and differences at the same time so there is nothing to falsify it. It's still "heads we win and tails you lose".

If you think evolution explains everything we could conceivably see, then you really have no idea what evolution is. Why do you argue against a thing when you don't even know what that thing is?
 
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When Adam & Eve fell, the whole world became cursed, that includes animals plants and humans, and that brought disease and imperfections into humans and animals. Any flaws are a result of the curse or fall, plus humans and primates are not the only species that have that broken vitamin C gene so that doesn't prove any link between humans and primates at all.

And did God also make us to look like we had evolved?

No, you convinced yourself of that when you chose not to believe what God told us when He said He created Adam & Eve from the ground. When you choose not to believe God, then you have to find another source of where we came from and force it to fit into your reasoning. That's not God's doing.
 
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