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  1. David M

    Free will, how does it work again?

    Wrong, as you have repeatedly been whenever you bring up this subject. Firstly I will point out that Religion heavily denies subjectivity, by defining some things as good or evil it makes both good and evil objective facts and it classes things as objectively falling in one of those 2...
  2. David M

    Origin of life

    My sources are Muslims and Islamic Scholars.
  3. David M

    An oversight

    Would have been amusing to watch, considering that a "day" is not really exactly 24 hours and that the numbers all revolve around which definitions of Day and Year are being used.
  4. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Welcome to the growing club of people whose counter-arguments and facts poor old FearGod cannot refute.
  5. David M

    Origin of life

    No. There are multiple versions because the written differences change, add or remove words which, in some cases, alters the meaning. Islamic Scholars admit the differences and some claim that the fact that there are multiple versions is an improvement and not contrary to 5:19. Are all the...
  6. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    If they had in either of those cases than that would be support for creation and evidence against evolution. Nowhere doe evolution predict that a creature will give birth to a radically different creature, its a process of relatively small changes adding up over time to make a large difference...
  7. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    Its quiet an interesting story, it was mainly the British scientific establishment that was so supportive of the status of the Piltdown Man and that was because it was a good fit with the political and cultural narrative of the British Empire. Scientists from abroad questioned its status from...
  8. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    That is an image of the structure of a whale fin (Do whales have bones and other whale questions - Dr. Galapagos tells us about whales. The fins of a Whale Shark do not have any bones but are supported by internal rays called ceratotrichia (and they do grow big, I saw a 10m+ Whale Shark during...
  9. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Facts. People of the period did know what a developing fetus looked like because they saw them.
  10. David M

    Origin of life

    No I mean that there are slightly different Arabic versions of the Quran itself in existence today. Its all to do with the Readers and Transmitters but an Arabic Quran widely used in parts of North Africa (the Imam Warsh version) has differences when compared to the Imam Hafs version which is...
  11. David M

    Origin of life

    No. Diversity and complexity are emergent properties of an imperfectly replicating system. It is the environment that affects whether that diversity and complexity continues, which was the point that I was making. So no, specific molds and instructions are not needed to overcome entropy or to...
  12. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    Which is nothing more than knowledge easily ascertained from miscarriages and stillbirths (unfortunately common at the time) and was generally known by many civilisations prior to the period when Islam started.
  13. David M

    Harsh Truth: If Intelligent Design is Untestable . . .

    And yet one creature evolving into another (speciation) is an observed fact. The evolution of new physical structures is an observed fact. But your argument is basically that because one cannot travel a mile in a single step then you cannot travel a mile by making many small steps.
  14. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    Some scientists questioned the authenticity of the find from the start, but Dawson refused to let the specimen be closely examined.
  15. David M

    Origin of life

    Firstly all the life on earth falls under, at most, only a couple of templates (depending on whether you consider viruses or prions to be a form of life), DNA/RNA is the single template that dominates this world's life. The world consists of a multitude of different environments with a variety...
  16. David M

    Origin of life

    If that is the case then why are there slightly different versions of the Quran today? About 10 different versions that are considered "authentic" and a number more that are not considered "authentic" because the chain of narration is considered weak.
  17. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    Add away, it won't stop my commenting on the many inaccuracies in your posts.
  18. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    fossil noun the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. Technically the amber itself is a fossil but the animal or plant inside is not. So any backup for the claim that DNA testing has been used to prove transitional species to...
  19. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    True. Wrong. Creatures encased in amber are not fossils. Fossils are creatures whose remains have been mineralised. Tiktalik for example is not encased in amber and is definitely a transitional species. Firstly they are not fossils, secondly they are not that old and lastly I am unaware of...
  20. David M

    Which evolved first --- FRUIT BEARING TREES or FRUIT EATING CREATURES?

    How about the claim that DNA testing has been used to prove that transitional fossils were fake? Still waiting for an answer on how DNA testing was used on things with no DNA. This one here:
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