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  1. David M

    PROBABILITY OR POSSIBILITY OR JUST IMPOSSSIBLE

    If it takes millions of years then why do we see speciation occurring in much shorter timescales (such as a few human lifetimes). In fact specation can occur in a single generation, we know this because we have seen it.
  2. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    The proof is the words of the people who found those "collagen fragments", it was fragments that were found, not collagen itself. No, you need to provide the evidence because you are the one making the claim, and its fairly important to your argument. For instance Osteocalcin can last 100...
  3. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    No it wasn't. This is not true. I've asked you for evidence of these so-called "studies" already, until you produce them I will say that this is a lie put forward on some creationist websites. Wrong. It can be tested accurately to over 60,000 years. Wrong. Nothing in your post is correct...
  4. David M

    PROBABILITY OR POSSIBILITY OR JUST IMPOSSSIBLE

    I see a whole pile of bogus maths. The truth is that DNA is an imperfect replicator and individuals compete for resources and that competition affects reproductive success. Therefore Evolution is a mathmatic certainty. Its inevitable that evolution will occur.
  5. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Where is your evidence for this claim? Supply the peer-reviewed research that established that figure. And no, "we didn't think it could last that long so we didn't bother looking" is not peer-reviewed research.
  6. David M

    Black people, stop embarrassing yourselves!

    It started as protesting. And I did not say that violence was admirable, I said that protest was admirable. The US is still a racist society, its not surprising that its minorities react with anger to violence against them, its wrong to loot and riot but slightly understandable when long held...
  7. David M

    Black people, stop embarrassing yourselves!

    Black people protest and some of them riot because a member of their community was killed by the police. Some white people riot because their sports team lost. Which is more despicable? Violence is rarely the answer but protesting against racism and injustice is admirable.
  8. David M

    God Recreated the Earth 6,000 Years Ago!

    "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics" would kill all life, even if it were possible in the first place. The energy released by plates slamming in to each other at such speeds and the accompanying release of magma as they move apart would boil the waters of all the oceans.
  9. David M

    The Evidence for Evolution in the Fossil Record

    Dawkins did not say that about the Cambrian Fossil record, he said that specifically about the phyla Platyhelminthes (flatworms) whose earliest know members appear in the Eocene (but whose distant ancestors are present in the Cambrian). To imply that he was talking about the Cambrian is...
  10. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Carbon dating is one type of radiometric dating, of which there are over a dozen. But Carbon Dating isn't used on fossils and does not extand back more than 100,000 years (as a maximum, its more normally 60-70,000 years). Those dozen or more dating methods are in agreement for samples for which...
  11. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    According to you it is. You started with the appeals to authority, I just showed that invoking that fallacy really does you no good whatsoever. Some of us do put in the time and effort to read scientific papers you know, I am sure that there are others here who do know what they are talking...
  12. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Just to continue the appeal to authority route here just 2 people who have debunked Meyers work: Paul Myers (note that the qualifications are in relevant fields). Associate Professor Ph.D Biology., University of Oregon B.S. Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle University of Minnesota...
  13. David M

    So you say I don't understand Evolution. Really?

    Er, no. Without mutations the 23 chromosome pairs would not show such massive variation between us and there would not be a virtually unique pattern. our DNA would be remarkably similar just as is seen in species that have undergone a recent genetic bottleneck. If you want to be truly accurate...
  14. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    And you again confirm that you nothing about evolution. The overwhelming majority (about 90%) of mutations are neutral. Of the harmful mutatiuons a lot get weeded out of the gene pool prior to birth, one of the reasons for nonviable fertilised embryos is detrimental mutations, and a lot of...
  15. David M

    So you say I don't understand Evolution. Really?

    Latest research places the figure at an average of 60 mutations at fertilisation that are not possesed by our parents.
  16. David M

    Challenges to Creationism

    Hierarchies yes, but not nested Hierarchies as you can for living creatures. There are far too many instances of identical characteristics cropping up in different nested groups (which is what you would expect from things that are designed) and subjective definition of which characteristics to...
  17. David M

    Challenges to Creationism

    No it can't. In fact automobiles are a very good example of something that cannot be organised into nested heirarchies in the way that living creatures can, and are, organised.
  18. David M

    Challenges to Creationism

    Because God. That is the answer, it has no explanatory or predictive power because anything can be explained by that principle.
  19. David M

    Evolution is illogical and non sense

    You do realise that there are still people who claim the sun revolves around the earth?
  20. David M

    Evolution is illogical and non sense

    We did evolve from apes. just not any extant apes. Every species in our ancestral lineage back to when the apes split from the old world monkeys was an Ape. In the same way you can take a point further back and it is primates all the way from us back to the start of the order.
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