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| Subject: | | Re: Evolution |
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wisker
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Sat, Oct 6 2007, 3:33am
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I never stated that i believed in this theory of evolution. You are correct that it resembles somthing out of a 5th grade text book. I wrote it very simply so that anyone even the younger members who frequent this site can read and understand as well as the adults.If you read the following post in which one mentions sickle cell anemia and its corelation to malaria you will find that some mutations do benifit the species.
in response to your last statement: Is it possible that an omnipitent being created life so that it could evolve not stating i believe this, but could that be possible. |
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| Subject: | | Re: Evolution |
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labete
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Thu, Dec 27 2007, 6:09am
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Four interesting things about evolution.
1. It is not observable or repeatable in a lab or in the natural world - our lives are too short (sadly) to truely examine it!
2. It flies in the face of the second law of thermo-dynamics which states that all things are going from a state of organization to chaos.
3. There are far too many gaps in the fossil record that need filling for the theroy to truely be the ultimate answer (hopefully someday these will be filled, but since Darwins time (150yrs) our technology has not been able to help us as Darwin thought it would).
4. The irriducible complexity of single celled organisims have yet to be disproven. i.e. we cannot present a theory or experiment that will account for the basic building block of life being formed from a "primordial ooze" let lone the DNA that is needed as the blueprint to start life. A cingle cell can contain enough data to fill a small library if it was all printed on 15# paper with a size 10 font.
Evolution is an answer to a humanistic world view where we look for answers in "natural (what we can observe)" ways. We must have faith that all things happen naturally and that there are no other possibilities. "Intelligent designers" do the same thing by using a supernatural means to spark life rather than a natural one. I am a numerical taxonomist, trained in evolutionary biology at a major university in oklahoma. I just wanted to put forth my thoughts as I am struggling with a theory that I have cherished for years. I always look at what is missing before I look at what I already have... |
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