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SackLunch said:Technically of course evolution is a theory. But I do personally believe it is on the level of a hypothesis, the same way you say Creationism is a hypothesis. It is my personal opinion that both are systems of belief, and both take faith to believe. Personally, due to what I believe is the lack of evidence (transitional forms, lack of explanation for complexity, lack of explanation for intelligence, lack of explanation of origins), it is far more logical to me to believe in the literal creation of the earth and mankind as recorded in Genesis. By God. Directly.
Well all of that is very interesting. The E. Coli are friendly bacteria.random_guy said:Well, smell is caused by the bateria's waste product eating stuff from the sweat glands. Since this is a perfect world, we'll assume that the bateria didn't eat/reproduce/defecate. Now, how to solve the problem with the missing E. Coli. in the gut of Adam and Eve...
Mysostatin blocking mutation in human beingsmbucks said:can a person observe evolution today. please expound on some examples.
Many people within Islam, Judiasm, Hinduism, Buddhism, and many other world religions believe that human beings were created by God. I'm sorry if I cannot convince you of this, but perhaps you could do your own research.Talcos Stormweaver said:No, no it is not. You seem to be confusing your vocal minority for half of the world.
Oh dearSackLunch said:Many people within...Buddhism believe that human beings were created by God
SackLunch said:Well all of that is very interesting. The E. Coli are friendly bacteria.
I use one of those crystal rock things for deodorant. It really does work. And sometimes I can really stink if I don't use it.
SackLunch said:The skunk is a rather stinky animal when he wants to be. The skunk has a gland that, when activated through fear or defense, emits a foul odor over a several-mile area. If you've smelled skunk before, you know what I mean. But why does this skunk not stink all the time? How did the skunk gain the intelligence and the physiological means to use this gland at the proper time? Why isn't that stinky gland located in the skunk's kindney, or on his tongue?
Now look at the trunk of the elephant. Elephants use their long, muscular trunks for a number of tasks. Not only do they use their trunks for gathering food, but they also use them to move (and remove) objects. I was amazed that after the recent Tsunamis in Indonesia, elephants were called in to help clean up the rubble and search for people. Elephants can even uproot trees with those trunks! It truly is a specialized wonder of complexity.
I am just amazed with all the complexity in nature. Even just one organ, let's say, the eye - is extremely complex. But add in the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, blood, nervous system, heart - and what a marvel life becomes. How amazing that all of these complex systems have come together to form one human or one animal.
What are the odds that these complex systems formed randomly from random mutations? Where did the intelligence to operate all these independent systems in perfect harmony and cooperation originate? And how is it that all these systems not only complement each other, but the whole could not function properly without them?
I say it could only be explained by an intelligent designer, namely, God, who fashioned life from His own hand.
SackLunch said:Technically of course evolution is a theory. But I do personally believe it is on the level of a hypothesis, the same way you say Creationism is a hypothesis. It is my personal opinion that both are systems of belief, and both take faith to believe. Personally, due to what I believe is the lack of evidence (transitional forms, lack of explanation for complexity, lack of explanation for intelligence, lack of explanation of origins), it is far more logical to me to believe in the literal creation of the earth and mankind as recorded in Genesis. By God. Directly.
You are Richard Dawkins on a massive wind up and I claim my 5 biomorphs.John16:2 said:Yea, it's too perfect in nature; I think of the fish that evolved the ability to hide on the sea floor, with two eyes on the up side: intelligent nature facilitating the perceived need by the fish.
Now THAT is food for thought, John. Thanks for posting.John16:2 said:Yea, it's too perfect in nature; I think of the fish that evolved the ability to hide on the sea floor, with two eyes on the up side: intelligent nature facilitating the perceived need by the fish.
Heard on the radio last night that bees have no predecessors they evolved from, and are quite unlike other insects on earth. Just a rumor, take it or leave it, planted by intelligence implied.
The new discovery of black holes occasionally emitting jet streams of nebulaic matter means the galaxies can self perpetuate and regenerate anew, along with supernova nebula. It's as if the multiverse is also alive. Quasars are now thought to be precursers to galaxies, and far more common than previously thought, especially far in the past with Hubble. If there was a bang, it shot quasars.
Yamialpha has a link to the science.com article in the thread about black holes in Physical & Life Sciences category, that info is based on.
Orderly is the relative structure of the visible universe, fairly uniform in all directions, with no stops to infinity.
www.electric-universe.info has a new view.
It's too intelligently ordered to not be alive itself, in some fashion.
www.bigbangneverhappened.org
www.metaresearch.org
Super gut! That's funny.random_guy said:Well, E. Coli. is friendly until you accidently get it out of your gut and into your body. It becomes an illness, then. This means that E. Coli. either didn't exist (causing who knows what digestive problems) or Adam and Eve had a super gut, one that nothing could penetrate.
While you're digesting that food for thought, realize that the third course is evidence for a universe billions of years old.SackLunch said:Now THAT is food for thought, John. Thanks for posting.
What is your response to the OP?notto said:Doesn't this OP belong in the 'What would an ID class be like' thread?
If this is what passes for intellectual pursuit in the ID and creationists circle, its A's all around.
SackLunch said:What is your response to the OP?
But how DO you account for all the complexity around you? How DO you account for complex structures all forming together randomly to form a perfect living organism as complex as the human body?notto said:That its a set of silly statements by somebody who doesn't seem to have done even a cursory investigation into what evolution actually says and how it works.
SackLunch said:But how DO you account for all the complexity around you? How DO you account for complex structures all forming together randomly to form a perfect living organism as complex as the human body?
Go to your local library and check out The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins.SackLunch said:But how DO you account for all the complexity around you? How DO you account for complex structures all forming together randomly to form a perfect living organism as complex as the human body?
SackLunch said:But how DO you account for all the complexity around you?
SackLunch said:How DO you account for complex structures all forming together randomly to form a perfect living organism as complex as the human body?
SackLunch said:How do you account for human emotion?
SackLunch said:Where did that come from?
SackLunch said:And why?
SackLunch said:How do you account for human intelligence?
SackLunch said:Where did it come from originally?
SackLunch said:Or did that occur randomly as well?
SackLunch said:Why are humans distinct in that we are forward-thinking, planning for events in the future?
SackLunch said:So many questions, so little time...
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