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Three Ways that Plants Defy Darwin’s Mechanism

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Another great article from the usual suspects:
Why was it 'great'?

Do you find it odd that this creationist organization NEVER posts essays about some great new creation science finding that supports IDcreation claims or hypotheses?

Why do you suppose they ONLY ever write about how silly evilution is?
The DI has a multi-million dollar budget. They created a 'lab' for Axe and Gauger to do 'research' in - and to date, they have churned out... primarily evolution-bashing essays.

Why do you suppose Jeff Tomkins refuses to test his "DNA sequence identity" routine on, say, animal pairs that creationists claim belong to the same Kind? Why do you suppose the ONLY 'scientific research' ANY creation scientist does is to try to poke holes in evolution?
It is all about 'debunking' evolution, yet their claimed 'debunkings' are all nonsense.

Creationists have no evidence, at all, that their tall tales have any merit whatsoever.
 
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The articles from Evolution News (Discovery Institute) are free to share, and are interesting for anybody who wishes to follow the ID argument.
So there is no plagiarism on my part.

LOL!

So, I guess, among everything else, you do not understand what plagiarism is.
Further more the content is relevant to the discussion taking place here and is only recieved by recipients who choose to subscribe to alerts of new content on the forum. So spam is not an issue either.
It is when you look at the forum rules.
I have debated this stuff in the past and no doubt will do so in the future but for now, for the most part, I am happy to observe the discussion that these articles inspire on this forum.
Not sure how spamming ENV essays by crackpots and assuming their content is 100% true counts as "debate."
The attacks against the content observed, on every posting I have made, are so very typical of the circles that the evolutionary crowd run around in are hardly worthy of chasing at the moment. Please forgive me.

Not as typical as the content of your "debate" points - hackneyed reiterations/plagiarism of angry nonsense that has generally already been refuted from people that are paid to try to prop up the religious beliefs of folks like you.
 
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Well sure, but, since Dougie Axe and David Klinghoffer declare otherwise, ID is REAL!
 
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So where are you going with all this? You put a lot of work into pushing ID. What do you expect to get out of it? Suppose you could convince us that the must have been a "designer" of some kind? What would be next?
 
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So where are you going with all this? You put a lot of work into pushing ID. What do you expect to get out of it? Suppose you could convince us that the must have been a "designer" of some kind? What would be next?

a praying circle?
 
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It's really only plagiarism if one is posting for personal gain.
A chat forum is a more casual conversation and not usually
used for building a professional reputation. Especially since
few people identify themselves.
 
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Noticing that you havn't modified your view on plant reproduction either.
Plants do not clone themselves.


This is a coleus . To clone a coleus you just break a stem off and stick it in the dirt or in water .Of course they break off by themselves too. That purple plant in the background Purple Heart ( Setcreasea purpurea) also clones easily . Maybe you should read and think about what you write before you post it .
 
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it's more enjoyable to set a program to make things for you so your surprised by the outcome.
Naa. Having planned success is better. And any programmer or Olympic athlete.
 
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A slight twist if definition and shazam! We can equivocate 2 different types of function, and supply evidence for our argument.
Now where have I seen that before?
 
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Plants do not clone themselves.
As it happens, large number of plant species do clone themselves - it's a form of asexual reproduction called 'apomixis' or, more specifically, 'agamospermy'.

Some common examples are dandelions, crab apples, citrus, blackberries, and grass.
 
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As it happens, large number of plant species do clone themselves - it's a form of asexual reproduction called 'apomixis' or, more specifically, 'agamospermy'.

Some common examples are dandelions, crab apples, citrus, blackberries, and grass.
They are capable of "cloning" due to all cells retaining stem cell capability, enabling regrowth when damaged. I put a leaf of a mustard green plant in my garden the other day and it has become a complete plant.
The normal form of reproduction is not cloning however, which was my point.
To say that these plants clone themselves as a matter of course is like suggesting that they also marry because they are capable of grafting.
 
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Still doesn't mean plants 'defy' evolution.
Any living thing containing DNA information defies the proposition that living things originated and developed without the presence of an information producing mechanism.
The only "mechanism" available in the universe capable of producing the sort of specifically functional information observed in biological systems is intelligence.
 
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For that to be true, you first have to provide evidence that information came from somewhere, that that intelligent source is an actual thing.
Just saying it's so does not make it so.
 
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weasel words, yes new 'information' is in DNA YOU have new information in your dna that wasn't there from your parents, around 50 new bits of information, so yes it can appear in there.
 
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