I will leave some comments on the Dover trial, then forgive me but I won't look back, be back. Debates on evolution vs. creation go on endlessly and I don't have time for that right now. Either people will see what I have said, below, or they will not. Up to them.
Before mentioning the trial, let's look at the man who supposedly crushed intelligent design there, cell biologist Ken Miller.
I have seen a clip of Ken Miller, on the Colbert show, where he says that as a Roman Catholic he believes "Jesus Christ is the Creator of all that is, seen and unseen." In this exact same time period he was running around the country giving lectures on the so called collapse of intelligent design. So...his Deity is dumb and design free, yet created all this is seen and unseen? Wow. What a miracle!
In the same show Colbert talked about the primal pond as if it is gawd's truth scientific fact. There was a teachable moment. Miller could have told the audience that there is not a shred of evidence for any such thing, that life has never been observed to come from inorganic matter, even with intelligent design and high tech labs, and that it always and only comes from life and life of the same kind. But he only sat there in silent assent.
Now onto the trial itself.
If you want to settle science questions, guess where you go? Not to a courtroom with a politically correct, politically appointed, non science trained judge or any other judge. You go to the lab or to the field. The Dover Trial had zero impact on the creation movement. We saw how Kenneth Miller used the strawman logical fallacy to make his points against Michael Behe. That is, he first misrepresented Behe's points, then attacked the misrepresentations.
As for the chromosome 2 argument that cell biologist Ken Miller seemed so impressed by in his Dover court statements...
The whole chromosome 2 "evidence" for common ancestry, from some ape type creature, is actually a beautiful little example of how evolutionary defense is always based on logical fallacies. Most people - including myself in the past - couldn't tell logical fallacies from a hole in the ground. Thus they are easily confused.
Okay, so if you fuse those two of our chromosomes together you could say there is a superficial match - in number only - with the 48 chromosomes of apes. Uh, tobacco, potatoes and other life forms have 48 chromosomes, too. Ever heard of the Correlation Does Not Imply Causation logical fallacy?
Also, other chromosome fusions do occur which are not being mentioned. For example 1 in 1,000 people, who function like others, have an additional fusion, the Robertsonian Translocation. However, no one is claiming it comes from some ape type creature. Cows and some other animals have fusions but no one says that shows they evolved from something else. Ever heard of the Cherry Picking logical fallacy?
Also, the Chromosome 2 fusion is human in every way. There is no ape type info in it. In fact, apes have chromosomes that are larger in size than those of homo sapiens. Ever heard of the Incomplete Comparison logical fallacy?
We have exactly zero data - you know, what real science uses, unlike evolutionism which always presents theories as gawd's truth facts - to show when or how that fusion got there. Yet we are being told as scientific truth that we do know! Is there even a fragment of a toe bone from that murky, mythical, hairy creature that supposedly gave us a fusion? No, there is absolutely zero evidence any such life form ever existed. But you aren't being told maybe it existed. You are being told it DID exist and that it DID give us our chromosome 2 fusion. Ever hear of the Presuming Omniscience logical fallacy?
Every bit of evolutionism is based on logical fallacies, theories presented as evidence, data ignored or spun, and lots and lots of...faith...all stirred well with sophistry. If you truly learn your logical fallacies, and take them seriously - which most evolutionism defenders refuse to do - you will see that they under gird every evolutionary peer review.
In addition to the logical fallacies, we have a claim about Chromosome 2 which I have found no verification for. We were told the Chromosome 2 fusion was predicted before it was found, thus showing evotuionism is based on reality. I have asked quite a few people to cite any science publication that demonstrates the fusion was predicted before a science publication that shows it was found. They never get back to me. Can you find any such confirmation?
As for the touted so called 2% difference between chimps and people, that is a perfect example of skewing the data. Get a female chimp. Have a hair stylist work on her. Put her in a long, slinky dress. Teach her to wear high heels. Add some makeup and perfume. Then bring her to the Prom. See how many guys ask her to dance. Or... try getting her a blind date. Tell the prospective guy that you can't say much about her, but that she is only 2% different from all the hot chicks he knows. If he is dumb or desperate enough to still go on the date, see how he reacts when he sees her.
Take an ape or chimp to a preschool. Will it perform only 2% differently from the children there in terms of learning the alphabet, standing in line to go potty, drawing, coloring, singing, speaking? Will it have social skills that are only 2% below theirs? And will the children only be 2% different from the beast in terms of strength, hairiness, dentition - well, the list just goes on and on.
Evolutionism teaches you to drop your common sense on the floor as soon as they give you a "science" fact.
Anyone: You are not part ape. You are made in the image and likeness of your Creator, Who loves you and wants you to love Him, too, and to know Him for Who He is, the Father of Mercies. I know because, as a former atheist, He showed so much mercy to me.
Blessings and, again, bye!
