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" evolution has never made sense to me"A standard and pathetic response from the pro evolution camp. Professor Tour is one of the most intelligent people on earth. He is well able to understand more than one subject. He's chair of several departments at Rice University. He is fundamentally a synthetic organic chemist, also a bio chemist, also involved in nanomachinery research, graphene and several other fields. You seriously imagine that evolutionary theory is beyond his comprehension? How many research papers have you published? How many patents awarded? How many businesses have licensed your designs? Me neither. However, I can read and I can hear. I have looked at both evolution and the arguments against. I am not stupid. Evolution has never made sense to me. The more I find out, the less plausible it becomes.
Still, I would like to have a link to the case. Plenty of people speak out against the theory of evolution without being hauled into court. What was distinctive about the Tour case?
Are you an evolutionary biologist?What legal case? You cut out the part where James Tour talks about this case and you mention nothing about it.
James Tour is a specialist in nanotechnology. He's no more qualified to talk about evolution being wrong than you are. Yes, you can both SAY it's wrong, but since evolutionary biology is neither of your fields, your words about it mean squat.
Are you an evolutionary biologist?
Oh. It seemed like you were saying only an evolutionary biologist could have a valid argument for or against evolutionNo, more an amateur historian.
Doesn't mean what I am saying is incorrect.
Oh. It seemed like you were saying only an evolutionary biologist could have a valid argument for or against evolution
Argument from authority, nothing more. So he's, to you, one of the most intelligent men on the planet. That doesn't mean squat about the theory of evolution unless he actually talks ABOUT the theory of evolution. And just saying it's wrong, doesn't mean that it is wrong.
Your make the same argument over and over again, that you don't understand anything about evolution, ergo, it must be false to you. Your entire argument is an argument from incredulity, which is THE single most worthless argument that can be made.
Unless James Tour actually releases a paper showing that evolution is false as a theory, then he and you have no leg to stand on.
Also: still not a single shred of evidence for you saying that James Tour was brought to court over not accepting evolution.
Anyone can have a valid argument, but an argument from authority can only be credibly made by an expert in the field and even then such an argument must be validated.Oh. It seemed like you were saying only an evolutionary biologist could have a valid argument for or against evolution
Only a person citing actual dara.Oh. It seemed like you were saying only an evolutionary biologist could have a valid argument for or against evolution
If you care tovcompete on that sorry level you
could trot out an endless succession of quotes from christians
with advanced degrees who fully support the ToE
I wonder how many people on this forum are experts in the fieldAnyone can have a valid argument, but an argument from authority can only be credibly made by an expert in the field and even then such an argument must be validated.
I wonder how many people on this forum are experts in the field
Actually there are several. But there is nothing about forming a working understanding of the theory which requires one be an expert in the field. Any layman of ordinary intelligence with a basic education in math and the sciences shoud be able to grasp the fundamental principles.I wonder how many people on this forum are experts in the field
Someone can grasp the fundamental principles and still disagree.Actually there are several. But there is nothing about forming a working understanding of the theory which requires one be an expert in the field. Any layman of ordinary intelligence with a basic education in math and the sciences shoud be able to grasp the fundamental principles.
Someone can grasp the fundamental principles and still disagree.
Someone can grasp the fundamental principles and still disagree.
I'm not trying to argue it.I just said some of the theory is hard for me to accept or believe and elements are being presented as facts that are part of the theory. I have actually learned a lot from these discussions aside from what some do. Most people make informed intelligent argumentsOf course they can. No-one said otherwise. It's when you try and argue it, that's when you need a bit more than a fundamental understanding and need to actively and actually defend your position.
I'm not trying to argue it.I just said some of the theory is hard for me to accept or believe and elements are being presented as facts that are part of the theory. I have actually learned a lot from these discussions aside from what some do. Most people make informed intelligent arguments
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