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Scientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken

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No, science does not "prove" the theory of evolution. Science doesn't prove theories, it merely confirms them. It may also falsify them. Science confirms the theory of evolution, so far. It may falsify the theory someday, who knows? But I think what's bugging you is that science has already falsified creationism. Falsifying the theory of evolution won't bring it back.
 
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Yes. Real science is just that, real science, but calling an opinion of what real science points to, actual science as happens here way too much, is not real science.

This absolute mish-mash of a sentence conveys no meaning whatsoever. Explain your terms - what do "real" and "actual" mean? How does one distinguish between them? What are you trying to say, other than "I don't like evolution"?

Like the term, "Science proves evolution" when it does not, the opinions of what real science points to is claimed to prove evolution.

Who uses that term? Who has claimed that science "proves" anything?

You do not know what you are talking about.



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Excuse for what they (some scientists/some of you) wrongly derive.
What makes you think it's wrongly derived?
IOW calling it science excuses it being wrong and just opinion of what the real science actually points to.
Could you kindly point us to the "real science" and inform us of what you think it points to?
 
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Yes. Real science is just that, real science, but calling an opinion of what real science points to, actual science as happens here way too much, is not real science.

I seriously doubt if you know what "real science " is.

Like the term, "Science proves evolution" when it does not, the opinions of what real science points to is claimed to prove evolution.

This is a poor misinterpretation on your part of what others say. Scientists have confirmed the theory of evolution millions of times. Theories can be tested. The theory of evolution has been tested millions of times. It has passed major tests and minor tests often result in the theory being changed a bit here and a bit there so that it better describes what happened in the past.

But if you accept it when Maury Povich (spelling?) shouts "You are the father" then you should accept it when the same evidence shows that you are related to chimpanzees. It is the exact same "science".

Meanwhile I don't know of any claims by creationists that have not been refuted. That is why creationists don't even try to explain creationism today. Instead they run on the false dichotomy that if they can refute evolution that that "proves" creationism. It of course does nothing of the sort. The burden of proof is still upon creationists and they do not seem to have one iota.
 
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The question comes down to.....
where and when did intelligence begin?

Could intelligence and the ability to affect energy and invent matter.....
have began in fundamental or nearly fundamental energy that is assumed by
Stephen Hawking Ph. D. to have existed for something like infinite time in the past....

based on his statements in chapter 13 of his book, Stephen Hawking's Universe.

The title of that chapter is.... The Anthropic Principle.

Dr. Hawking postulates a variation of the Cyclic Model of the Universe in that chapter.
An Atheistic version of it.... .a much more Theistic or Agnostic version is quite possible
as well.


Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?

Poll: Where did Intelligence begin, in matter or fundamental energy?
 
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You need to define what you mean by "intelligence" .
 
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And here we go again with this old chestnut....

Asking where intelligence 'came from' is akin to asking where 'distance' came from. It isn't an entity....it's a metric; in this case, a metric for the level of cerebral capacity of an organism.

Your more correct question would be 'where do brains come from?'



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You need to define what you mean by "intelligence" .

Think in terms of Artificial Intelligence!

Watch a few movie such as the one that Johnny Depp was recently in.........

So far as we know....... intelligence is somewhat like electricity moving around in a circuit.....

Fundamental energy should have been able to move around much more efficiently than
electricity.......

and perhaps what we term electricity... is an invention???

Should not a more fundamental form of energy be able to
move around in whatever type of circuitry existed.....
in Quantum Vacuum...... more efficiently than electricity.....
in the computers we are using?

www.CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/

 
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Exactly!

And could we... carbon based life forms....
have a natural bias against non- carbon based life / intelligence?

Thus the title of my blog.... CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/
 
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Exactly!

And could we... carbon based life forms....
have a natural bias against non- carbon based life / intelligence?

Thus the title of my blog.... CarbonBias.blogspot.ca/

And where exactly is your evidence for this "non-carbon based life"?


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And where exactly is your evidence for this "non-carbon based life"?


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Near death experience accounts are, in my opinion, an impressive form of
anecdotal evidence for this.

The correlation between what former Atheist Mellen Benedict reports being shown,
with chapter 13 of Stephen Hawking's Universe, (The Anthropic Principle), is simply
too great for me to regard this as mere coincidence.

near-death
.com/reincarnation/experiences/mellen-thomas-benedict.html#a05

 
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Cool story, but that's all that can be said about it. NDEs cannot be used as evidence as of anything.
 
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Ummm .... no. Just no.
 
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"Real" science...??
You know -- the stuff that isn't performed by professional scientists, isn't done in scientific labs, isn't funded by science funding agencies and isn't described in the scientific literature. Real science.
 
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You know -- the stuff that isn't performed by professional scientists, isn't done in scientific labs, isn't funded by science funding agencies and isn't described in the scientific literature. Real science.

Otherwise known as; "comforting science".
 
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Wrong.

Micro/macro evolution are not "different" processes in evolution.
The only difference is the reference generation.

Evolution works by the gradual accumulation of small changes in the genome every generation.

Generation 1 is thus slightly different from generation 0.
Generation 2 is slightly different from generation 1.
Generation 3 is slightly different from generation 2.
Generation 4 is slightly different from generation 3.
Generation 5 is slightly different from generation 4.
Generation 6 is slightly different from generation 5.
...
Generation 1000 is slightly different from generation 999.

If we would then compare generation 1000 to generation 0, we'ld find that generation 1000 is vastly different from generation 0.

And that's what "macro" evolution is.

Consider walking a mile. The "micro-walk" would be taking a single step.
Every step gets you just a couple of feet further. After just one step, you'll find yourself in as-good-as the same place as you were before that single step.

After taking many hundreds of single steps, you'll have walked a mile. And you'll find yourself in a vastly different place as compared to the place where you started out with your first step.

That is the inevitable nature of accumulation of small changes.
 
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No and neither do you, that is my point. You believe what happens but you cant test it

Except that we CAN test it, off course, in multiple ways. The easiest is by far through DNA.

observe it so you take it by faith

No faith required, when you have testable and independently verifiable evidence.
 
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The burden of proof isn't on Christians its on atheists to demonstrate how this ordered and intelligent world functions with no apparent purpose or design behind it

The burden of proof is on the side that makes the positive claim.

In this case, that would be the side that positively claims that there is "design and purpose".


How it came from nothing

Ex-nihilo is a thing that is claimed by creationists....

The graph you posed is a nontestable theory
No, it's not. It's very testable using genetics and comparative anatomy, among others.
 
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