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When did evolution begin?

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I'm flabbergasted by that assertion but cannot say it's in error. Can you provide a source that I can look into? I have never heard of RNA outside of cellular entities.
Right? I am quite interested myself as I have not heard a peep of this either.
 
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Birds before land animals is the exact order in which we find fossil evidence?
 
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Now if someone wishes to claim there is another reason other than design it is incumbent upon them to provide evidence that shows it is an illusion.

Your mate Francis Collins claims that he's seen evidence of evolution, so any illusion of design must be just that, an illusion. Although I think delusion would be a more accurate word.

"evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things."
 
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Let me get this straight. You are claiming that because many viruses are RNA based they were present before cellular life? Source?
RNA world may be "mainstream" but it is far from being confirmed. In fact "mainstream" scientists have a problem or two about it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22793875
 
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Go back and read what I actually said.
 
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Your mate Francis Collins claims that he's seen evidence of evolution, so any illusion of design must be just that, an illusion. Although I think delusion would be a more accurate word.
Evidence for evolution and evidence for a claim that evolution produces some specific system are two separate things unless of course you would like to go with the common evolution is true so everything in the world is explained by evolution or the evolution of the gaps scenario. You too are under the false conclusion that if evolution then no God or No God then evolution mindset. Collins goes a step back further from biological life being designed (God interjecting into in some way) to the universe being designed for life. He believes that God made life possible in the universe and is not needed for any particular part of the evolution of life. Michael Behe accepts evolution and common descent but he doesn't accept that evolution alone can explain the design seen in living things and no evidence has been provided to show that this design is an illusion.
 
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Birds before land animals is the exact order in which we find fossil evidence?
I said almost exact order. Fossil evidence is only as good as we have fossil to show for it. Bird evolution keeps getting pushed back farther and farther.

http://www.labnews.co.uk/news/new-finding-challenges-belief-dinosaurs-evolved-from-birds-17-07-2014/

Using advanced 3D microscopy, high resolution photography and low angle lighting, the researchers revealed an absence of fundamental dinosaurian characteristics. The scientists believe the research shows dinosaurs are not the primitive ancestors of birds. Instead, the Scansoriopteryx should be seen as an early bird whose ancestors are to be found among tree-climbing archosaurs that lived long before the dinosaurs.
 
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Go back and read what I actually said.

You took issue with me saying that virtually all academics working in the field of biology accepted evolution as a fact and then used Francis Collins as an example of someone who doesn't as far as I remember. I apologise if I'm mistaken.

You too are under the false conclusion that if evolution then no God or No God then evolution mindset.

I'm actually fairly ambivalent about the existence of a God (although my faith says atheist I suppose I'm more agnostic), all that we've discovered and can observe in the world about us, however, obviously points to evolution and common descent - God or not.
 
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Do you know that NASA is doing right now. Can each of us really read inbetween the lines and see with our spiritual eyes what's going on around us. Tell you the truth I don't have any spiritual eyes right now. I am not doing enough in this world as far as helping others to open them up. Maybe somebody tell me why NASA searching for life all over the galaxy? What are they looking for?
 
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Maybe somebody tell me why NASA searching for life all over the galaxy?

If we did find intelligent life out there who were close enough to contactable it would be very interesting to say the least. Having evidence that we are not alone would be a miles stone in human history.
 
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You took issue with me saying that virtually all academics working in the field of biology accepted evolution as a fact and then used Francis Collins as an example of someone who doesn't as far as I remember. I apologise if I'm mistaken.
You were mistaken. Apology accepted.



Which doesn't exclude God from the mix.
 
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So NASA is looking for other life forms, What else why would they spend millions upon millions to go up in space where that money can be spent here to help the people from arcoss the world. It just can't be looking for other galaxy for life forms or other worlds so that they can take it over. They are looking for something up more then just life to neglict the needs of the people down here.
 
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If you don't care enough to point to the one you are referring to I am not going to take anymore time with it.

You: The evidence is design.

Me: Do you think repeating the same refuted argument over and over will suddenly make it true? It has been explained to you OVER AND OVER that design is the claim, not the evidence.

Is there something that is unclear? We have shown time after time that design is the claim, not the evidence. Do you think repeating it over and over until everyone tires of pointing out the obvious error counts as a valid argument?

The claim is Dawkins.

YOU ARE THE ONE CLAIMING THAT LIFE IS DESIGNED.
 
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As one atheists said earlier I am not going to do your homework for you especially when you should know the answer.

You are the one claiming that atheists disagree with one another over the age of the Earth. It is your claim. If you are unwilling to back it with evidence, then please retract the claim.
 
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  1. Thermodynamics is a branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It defines macroscopic variables, such as internal energy, entropy, and pressure, that partly describe a body of matter or radiation.

So how does that apply to biology? If energy is added to a system, can entropy decrease?
 
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Amen which is WHY Genesis is empirical evidence that God authored Genesis since NO man of the time could have possibly known the scientific Truth written there. Amen?

Yet when shown that the science doesn't match up to the Bible, you claim that the science is wrong. You have shot yourself in the foot for this claim.
 
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