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It always points to similarities.
No, it's not "similarities". It's patterns. Specifically patterns we would expect to observe if life has changed via an evolutionary process and shared common ancestry.
It's similarities. Because you believe in evolution you see it as patterns showing evolution.
It actually shows common design.
There are patterns or similarities in all designs in order to make the thing function for best performance. That's exactly what God did in creation.
I'm not talking "respectful." I'm not talking about chatroom banter. I'm talking about real world bulling and harassment. I'm talking about things like setting dogs on JW canvassers resulting in injuries that the sheriff won't take a report about because it is his pastor who is encouraging it.Sometimes you just got to call snakes and vipers what they are when they come into your house selling their garbage.
But apparently you don’t see any reason evolutionists need to be respectful considering you might find 10 posts by them in this entire thread where they didn’t insult someone, to which you don’t seem to object to.
Sometimes you just got to call snakes and vipers what they are when they come into your house selling their garbage.
But apparently you don’t see any reason evolutionists need to be respectful considering you might find 10 posts by them in this entire thread where they didn’t insult someone, to which you don’t seem to object to.
The sentence before that:
"One 1987 estimate found that "700 scientists ... (out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists) ... give credence to creation-science..."
That is about 0.14% of 'U.S. earth and life scientists'.
However, nothing in the Theory of Evolution, or any science, denies that G-d did it. In fact, nothing in science denies the existence of G-d."Goddidit" is not an explanation for the diversity of life any more than it's an explanation for the weather.
Can your "common design" explain any of this?
For example, dolphins have olfactory genes yet completely lack an olfactory system.
if i will show an explanation without a common descent, you will agree that this isnt evidence for a common desent?
so you predict that any dolphin\whale cant smell?
You can't and you won't.
No, that is not what I am predicting. I'm not even sure why you would suggest that based on what I wrote.
What did I make up?One of the most distinctive characteristics of creationists is the tendency to make things up about what other people believe. With people like you it's merely amusing. Unfortunately, it is also the basis of much meanness and hostility in others.
Whereas, if we remove evolution, God becomes one option out of dozens...
You mean Odin, right?
Christians who deny Odin can hardly blame the schools, educational programs, scientific articles, etc., for their "ignorance."
Nor can you, for that matter.
I've been saying the exact same thing. Evolution is the ONLY real option if God is removed. The piles of "evidence" really are nothing more than man trying to figure out how all that is came to be without God.
who said?
you said it here:
"dolphins have olfactory genes yet completely lack an olfactory system."
so a whale\dolphin can smell or not?
I think you raise a key point. All I understand about evolution is the basic two-pronged framework: random mutations and (non-random) natural selection.So why did God create dolphins with olfactory genes but lacking an olfactory system? Why would God create dolphins to be completely aquatic yet lack the ability to breath underwater, but fish have that ability? Why would God create dolphins to start developing hindlimbs as embryos only to have the same development turn off and the hindlimbs re-absorbed?
Can your "common design" explain any of this?
Thank you for making my point. Well done.
I think it's not quite this simple. To the extent that people believe in a God who created the world 6000 years ago, or who heals you if you pray, I think the findings of science do indeed challenge this particular model of God. I do not foreclose the possiblity that God does heal, but clearly the frequency with which this happens is violently out of whack with the claims (not to mention the demonstrated chicanery of some so-called healers).When the religious try to disprove science using religion or when scientists (you listening Dawkins?) try to deny the existence of G-d using science, both are wrong.
since whale and dolphin shared a common descent according to evolution both should not be able to smell.
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