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What creationists need to do to win against evolution.

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Yep. Creationism is a belief system based on the Biblical record, just the same as Evolution is a belief system based on what Darwin's Origin of the Species started.

I refer you to my previous answer.
 
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But the development of many forms of CAT from an original feline *IS* evolution. Just like the development of various dogs (wolves, etc) from an original species of canine is evolution. And each of those originals developed from a common carnivore ancestor, and so on and so forth.
 
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I thought they showed wild animals like deer and bears. Examples please.
Same difference. There would be cave drawings showing wild animals - depending on where the cave drawings are. But the deer and bears haven't evolved into anything different either. They are still the same deer and bears we see today.
 
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No proof that the development of cats and dogs are anything but genetic variations caused by mutations where genetic information has be deleted from one generation to another. No proof of a common carnivore ancestor either, and if there was, we would be seeing evidence of development in intermediate animal variations leading to separate cats and dogs.
 
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Oh? So it doesn't totally involve time and chance? Wouldn't that scupper the theory about apes evolving into humans through time and chance over millions of years?

Huh? I'm talking about mechanisms of evolution.

Evolution is the process by which biological organisms change over time. That process includes reproduction and genetic mutations.

Do you understand reproduction and genetic mutations entails in the context of a population of organisms?
 
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Well, the diagram that shows the development from ape to human is a principal one to show how the biological change over time occurred from ape to human. It is unclear how this change can occur because we can't replicate it by genetic engineering. It could not have been through reproduction, because that can't be replicated either, because there is no actual data that shoes that humans and apes can mate to produce either ape or human offspring.

And genetic theory states that genetic information cannot be added to produce higher organisms, and this would be essential for apes to develop into humans. Genetic mutation involves deletion of genetic information not the addition of it.

So, the theoretical transformation from ape to human cannot occur through reproduction and mutation. So, we are then at the fall-back position of evolution - time and chance - that by some magical process an ape-man appeared, and genetic information was added to slowly replace the ape genes with human genes over time.

Actually, it is more believable that an infinite, all powerful God got a bit of clay, formed a man, breathed life into it, and it became a living human being.
 
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And genetic theory states that genetic information cannot be added to produce higher organisms, and this would be essential for apes to develop into humans. Genetic mutation involves deletion of genetic information not the addition of it.
[citation required]
 
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Same difference. There would be cave drawings showing wild animals - depending on where the cave drawings are. But the deer and bears haven't evolved into anything different either. They are still the same deer and bears we see today.

Same difference? Same Difference! SAME DIFFERENCE! What you have said is that domestic animals and wild animals are the same. How is that so?
 
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Creationists do not get to redefine what science is just because they are wrong.

You have tipped your hand. You are getting your nonsense from a site that cannot be used in a scientific debate. To even work at AiG one must swear not to follow the scientific method. What they do is not science.
 
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Yep. Creationism is a belief system based on the Biblical record, just the same as Evolution is a belief system based on what Darwin's Origin of the Species started.
Now that is a falsehood, and this has been explained to you once already. What excuse do you have for this not being a lie?

Creationism is a belief system that is based upon pseudoscience. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory that is evidence based. It is not a belief system.

In fact Ken Ham proved the above in the moment when he lost the debate to Bill Nye.
 
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Same difference. There would be cave drawings showing wild animals - depending on where the cave drawings are. But the deer and bears haven't evolved into anything different either. They are still the same deer and bears we see today.
That was because it was only ten or twenty thousand years ago. Evolution takes a bit longer than that.
 
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Same difference? Same Difference! SAME DIFFERENCE! What you have said is that domestic animals and wild animals are the same. How is that so?
It doesn't matter. None have evolved into anything different than what the were, and there is no evidence of any developmental stages. Evolution should work the same for all animals, not just some.

Instead of just trying to shoot down what I am saying, how about contributing some substantive data to prove your case?
 
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They respond to the question, but don't actually explain why mutations don't add information. And most importantly they don't define an objective measure or unit of information. (This is the biggest problem that intelligent design fans appear to have).

I'll give an example of why their response is false.

cat
catcat
fatcat
fatcatcat
fatcathat

There you go. Little changes to existing content that lead to a statement with more information.
 
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Yep, they just assert. There is no substance. I have claimed many times that AiG is a lying site. The very first sentence in that article is a lie:

"Can duplication and mutations cause new information to “arise” in the genome? Dr. Georgia Purdom accepts this challenge posted to creationists."

In the sciences when one takes on a challenge one does not publish on a pseudoscience site. One publishes in a well respected professional journal if one is a scientist. Where did she publish this in a well respected professional journal?
 
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Reading it even further it is amazing how much she got wrong. She claimed that scientists have not shown that new information can arise this way when it has been show with at least one example that I know of. The evolutionary development of venom in snakes has been shown to arise from gene duplication of genes that produce saliva. Google search time.

EDIT: It is late so I cheated and went to Wikipedia:

Evolution of snake venom - Wikipedia

EDIT 2: And looking back since this is a complex problem, it was not just gene duplication, Wikipedia may be a better source since it gives an overview of many articles while individual articles can only touch on a point or two at a time.

For example this one which argues specifically what genes were duplicated and other processes that accompanied it:

Restriction and Recruitment—Gene Duplication and the Origin and Evolution of Snake Venom Toxins
 
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AIG. Give me a break! No professional liars, please.
Instead of just shooting down the source, why don't you just read the article from a fully recognised scientist. This is what I am saying - you will only accept articles by evolutionists who are biased toward their unproven theories, but will not read anything else that might show a different side to it. Would this show a closed mind that wants just to see one side of the story. This would lead me to believe that it won't matter what I might say, or use as a supporting citation, you would find an excuse to shoot it own every time. So I don't see any point in continuing this discussion because it is too one sided for me. I have provided intelligent, informative posts, and all you have done is to shoot each one down. So, have a good life.
 
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