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Why is there a correlation between understanding evolution and accepting it as valid science?

Brightmoon

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Good example. Show me their eyes come back when removed from dark. I guess this could be tested in the lab.
They have functioning make-an-eye genes but they are turned off
 
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You do realize that the cardiac plexus is near the base of the heart so curving around either the aorta or the subclavian isnt great design . It’s a Rube Goldberg construction based on where arteries were during fetal development and these arteries evolved from the gill arches
 
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you never heard of Ken Miller ?!?!?! At the Dover trial, he basically shot Micheal Behe out of the water! He wrote Finding Darwin’s God about why some scientists are theists and accept evolution and the old earth

Eh, I only know about Michael Behe because of this site. I don't follow the Intelligent Design controversy too closely.
 
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Renders it impossible,

Since evolution only takes place in extant life on an extant planet (earth in this case) nothing in the first quote has anything to do with evolution, much less rendering it impossible.

promoted by deluded charlatans.

The irony of someone who clearly understands nothing about evolution calling science advocates deluded charlatans is not lost on any of us.
 
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(Also, something from nothing isn't a part of the Big Bang Theory).

This from stardate.org ;
Scientists pretty much agree that our universe — everything that we can see and touch — evolved from a single moment of creation, known as the Big Bang. It happened 13.8 billion years ago, and it created not just matter and energy, but space and time as well.

But there’s absolutely no agreement about what came before the Big Bang. Some say that there was nothing at all. It’s an idea supported by Stephen Hawking, who has said that the universe wasn’t created, it just is.

Impossible, ridiculous and untrue.
It's much easier to believe in intelligent design, and I LOVE the Intelligent Designer.
He is my Redeemer and my King!
 
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Lets revisit this in 100 years.
By then, there will be no doubt who is a deluded charlatan.
 
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So........ better give it up and become a believer That's what the TOE claims started it all. ( Big bang, presto, something from nothing)

You keep being corrected that evolution has nothing to do with the Big Bang Theory and that there's no proposal in the Big Bang Theory for "something from nothing". Why do you so obstinately insist on repeating falsehoods after you have been admonished?

One can try to divorce the TOE from the origins of the universe, but the 2 are intricately tied together. Without the first, the second falls.

This is, to be quite frank, an asinine assertion. Evolution only takes place when there is extant life on an extant earth. How that life and that earth came to be had zero effect on evolution.

Let's not forget, the TOE is only a theory, never been observed or demonstrated.

Evolution has been observed for the last 150 years. You also need to learn what a scientific theory is.


Everything in this is wrong and that's not surprising since you copy and pasted it from The Daily Fail.

The bar code analysis was on a single gene and suggests that most modern animal species have evolved in the last 200,000 years. Those species would have been from populations that existed before them. Again, populations, not individuals.

Also.
No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago
 
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You source is a popular science page, not a scholarly publication. But I notice the important text of "But there’s absolutely no agreement about what came before the Big Bang." showing that the Big Bang theory does not in fact address where the initial conditions came from.

I understand that you find it easier to believe in an Intelligent Designer... but you'll need evidence to convince anyone else.

Can you actually present evidence that the Big Bang theory is in fact "impossible, ridiculous and untrue"?
 
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Lets revisit this in 100 years.
By then, there will be no doubt who is a deluded charlatan.

Why? The data are in now and it's clear that evolution has happened. There are literally millions of potential observations we could have made that would falsify evolution, but we have made none of them. What makes you think that something will happen in the next 100 years that will change the pattern we've been observing for the last 150 years?

Or are you just trying to avoid discussing the evidence we have now?
 
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Yep, something from nothing is an impossibility that cannot be demonstrated or observed.
And I remain firmly convinced, as to the intelligence of..................... (Psalms 14:1)
 
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I am not trying to give a rigorous definition to "human", and my goal is only to tell "human" from non-human, which I collectively call it "animal". This line of argument can easily defeat the shameless claim made by many evolutionists that human is only another animal. Indeed, only judged by genetics and morphology, it could be a very reasonable claim. And that is the most serious problem to me about evolution.

And the caviar is: The Bible has answered the hardest part of this unanswered scientific problem right in the Genesis 2. Like it or not, this is simply miraculous.
 
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Eh, I only know about Michael Behe because of this site. I don't follow the Intelligent Design controversy too closely.
. The Dover trial transcripts were online ... fascinating reading . I’m not sure if they still are . If you can find them you’ll be fascinated
 
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. The Dover trial transcripts were online ... fascinating reading . I’m not sure if they still are . If you can find them you’ll be fascinated
. They still are at ncse- National Center for Science Education. That’s a screenshot not a link
 
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What has been used as proof of the TOE is every creature's ability to adapt to it's environment.
You have been corrected repeatedly on this. Why do you keep repeating it?
Repetition is a good teacher?
 
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Yep, something from nothing is an impossibility that cannot be demonstrated or observed.
And I remain firmly convinced, as to the intelligence of..................... (Psalms 14:1)

I agree, it has never been demonstrated or observed.

It is also a lie to say that the Big Bang theory states that it is possible.

Personally I've never seen evidence that nothing can actually exist. Everything in the universe seems to come from other things... how space, matter and time can actually start is a total mystery.

I've actually never been presented with evidence that "nothing" is even possible or ever existed.
 
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