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The human brain disproves evolution

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When I first started looking into evolution, I KNEW it could not possibly be true because it violates everything about the human body. Everything. It violates the very miraculousness of our own existence. There are tons of examples, but I recently ran across one that is particulary obvious:

Evidently in the human brain, several pathways for vision are present. Inactivation of one will be compensated for by the activation of another one. In cases of vision loss due to structural damage, the brain is actually able to build new pathways to enable vision.

I would like you evolutionits to explain to me how in the world this is possible without having intelligence in the genome. Has this ability evolved without directed guidance or intelligence? Has this ability evolved through random mutation via selection? Would the brain have built this new pathway RANDOMLY? Is this really a selectable trait?...A survival characteristic????

Actually, this is impossible for evolutionists to explain. The miraculousness of the human brain is unexplainable. Consciousness is unexplainable. Life itself is unexplainable.


http://www.neurologyreviews.com/jan0...nrestored.html
 

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Yes

A being with multiple pathways, has a higher likelihood of surviving, than a being with just one

(thats the one q/n I am qualified to answer, the rest will by more clever/educated people)
right...well wings would be a survival characteristics for human who lived in africa near lions -- yet we don't have any. Can you explain to me the process of how this might accidentally evolve one dumb genetic mistake at a time?
 
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Yes??? The human brain needed to be able to have this characteristic: develop new visual pathways in case of blindness. Right. I bet there were just millions of blinded people in the past....this, of course, meant that all of those who did not happen to have this ability to perished....leaving the one lucky dude to pro-create and spread this lucky mutation. Of course, there are a million other selectable traits as well....this lucky dude may have had a crummy kidney, so he would have been unslected for that...or maybe he was slow so a lion caught him -- so he may have been unslected for that. This would have been unfortunate because he was the first lucky dude of millions who had this incredible ability to build new pathways to restore his blindness. To bad he had to waste it in the stomach of a lion. :(
 
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right...well wings would be a survival characteristics for human who lived in africa near lions -- yet we don't have any. Can you explain to me the process of how this might accidentally evolve one dumb genetic mistake at a time?
Why would anyone bother to explain it to you, when it's been done countless times before and you continue to make the same spurious posts, hoisting the same strawmen, and showing the same lack of interest in the facts about evolutionary theory?
 
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well wings would be a survival characteristics for human who lived in africa near lions -- yet we don't have any. Can you explain to me the process of how this might accidentally evolve one dumb genetic mistake at a time?

Let me see,


A species of ape is in Africa

Slowly, evolving

Now what is a faster, more helpful, easier to evolve trait, for an ape

wings

or abstract thinking

The later, fits all the 3 criteria, and the ape, evolves abstract thinking, a trait, that is not only helpful against lions, but also, helps this species to achieve complete dominance over the entire planet
 
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right...well wings would be a survival characteristics for human who lived in africa near lions -- yet we don't have any. Can you explain to me the process of how this might accidentally evolve one dumb genetic mistake at a time?
For about the same reason that pigs don't fly. A wee bit too big and not exactly a whole lot of disposition towards the types of structures that are needed for flight, nor really a very good adaptation compared to other avenues that humans have taken against predators.
 
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Ok then 'sport, since you seem to think that the brain couldn't exist without some creator/designer making it then here's one for you.

I'm dyslexic, it's a pain in the [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] and causes me issues when communication with others via the written form, there are also knock on effect with my organisation and other things. I have a visual form of dyslexia which is why i have coloured lenses on my glasses to read through, to 'counteract' the distortion i see when reading black text off of a white back ground. This and all the other minor things are related to my brain structure, my brain ain't 'normal'. If the brain disproves evolution as you say then what sort of ejit creator would let someone go around with a poorly constructed organ, an essential one at that.

Oh wait i forgot, it's cos of the fall isn#'t it, silly me that must be my memory issues with being dyslexic kicking in......
 
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I noticed no one is able to actually make a valid argument.

That's because as has been said more than once, you ignore everyone elses arguments.

Seriously, it's more productive to debate a wall.
 
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And a tiny Scottish engineer.
We'll see who beams you up next time that you anger a Klingon.


I noticed no one is able to actually make a valid argument.
That includes you supersport. Why did your creator give flatworms such a primitive brain anyways BTW?
 
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I noticed no one is able to actually make a valid argument.
The human brain evolved because God, in transforming the energy of God into the Universe, set up the laws governing the interaction of all things -- quarks bundled into electrons, protons, and neutrons; the strong and weak nuclear forces holding atomic nuclei together and electrons circling those nuclei at tiny fixed distances at the speed of light, to form atoms; atoms trading elections to form simple molecules; simple molecules grouping together into complex molecules; complex molecules forming strings of complex molecules (some inorganic like crystalline structures in clay, others organic like simple lipids in the primeval soup); strings of complex molecules forming superstrings of hundreds of complex molecules, often in many layers (of which DNA is an example); superstrings of complex molecules which capture other stray molecules and create duplicates of themselves, or create other organic materials; interwoven collections of such superstrings which form organelles and other cell particles, such as cell walls; the collection of these organelles and particles into actual cells (including, at bottom, the simplest single-cell life forms such as viruses and amoeba, and note that similar sized collection of molecules form into inorganic structures, such as grains of dirt, dust, or sand); the collection of cells into multi-cellular structures (including the most basic multi-cellular life forms such as mold and fungi); more complex multi-cellular arrangements, up to and including humans!!

Remember, in terms of the kinds of cells and molecules we're made of a human is no more complicated than a tiny lizard or a giant whale.... you won't find any molecular arrangements in a human that aren't in most any other animal on the planet, what makes us different is the arrangement of those structures, and in fact, lizards and hummingbirds and elephants all have skeletons, stomachs, livers, etc., just like we do -- their brains are even made of pretty much the same molecules as ours, again, ours have just come to be arranged differently....

Now, there are two things to remember underlying all this....

First, I started talking about quarks, but what are quarks made of? Well, if you strip them down, there are probable subquarks, and subparticles of the subquarks, but when you get down to the bottom layer, there is nothing but pure energy, nothing but a force, and that force is God!!

Second, God is smarter than you or I.... one thing we've learned about the Universe is that the smarter a structure seems to be, the more efficient and less wasteful it turns out to be -- so God would likely be completely efficient? Now, what's the most efficient way to create man? Is it efficient to individually create every quark, put them in atoms, put the atoms in molecules, the molecules in strings and superstrings and even more complex structures, all the way up the chain until you've actually built a human being, with trillions of cells, many more times as many molecules, uncountable numbers of electrons and protons and neutrons and so forth? And mind you, it takes 100 times as much effort to make an elephant and 1000 times as much to make a whale....

The answer is that the more intelligent way to do it, the most efficient way, the Godly way, is to create all the raw materials in a single easy to manipulate form, and setting rules for them to follow which inevitably lead to the formation of the successively more and more complex structures we see today.... it's why you don't see God making people and plopping them on the planet every day -- instead, people are formed by a process where they begin as a single male cell and a single female cell, following the rules which govern how matter can move!! Why would God start with the inefficient task of making everything in the Universe piecemeal (including a whole human), when God could much more easily start with the very efficient task of setting down the rules and throwing out a universe's worth of material which would make itself into everything in the Universe including (after the appropriate time) humans!!

If you doubt me, I challenge you to make a human out of raw materials, by which I mean a pile of mostly hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and a couple ounces of various trace elements.... I'm even saving you the trouble of weaving quarks into sub-atomic particles and binding those together in atoms -- I think you'll find God's way will save you a lot of effort!!

//// Pacific PanDeist
 
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