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  1. David M

    The Creationist and Muslim deceptions

    Calling them liars is against the rules of the forums. Pointing out that their arguments are not even wrong is ok.
  2. David M

    Scientific Evidence That Islam is the true religion

    Except that they are not miraculous signs, they are descriptions of things that were common knowledge at the time. During that period miscarriages and stillbirths were much more common than they are today and people had to deal with such things by themselves. And of course there are the things...
  3. David M

    Proof Against Evolution

    Or perhaps more importantly that belief is contradicted by the mountain of facts that underpin the Theory of Evolution and the complete absence of any facts that contradict it. DNA is an imperfect replicator, the ability of individuals of a species to achieve reproductive success is affected...
  4. David M

    Creationism under fire ... from creationists.

    Except that "Creationism" doesn't refer to that. Christian Creationism has long been split into Young and Old Earth Creationism (and OEC also has its differing interpretations). In the past decades there has also been a rise in Islamic Creationism (e.g. Harun Yahya).
  5. David M

    Jesus doesn't believe in evolution

    There is still a huge number of species that reproduce asexually, so no male and female for them. But in any case Mark 5-6 is specifically about mosaic law relating to human marriage and divorce, nothing to do with any other species. So it has no relevance to evolution in any whatsoever.
  6. David M

    Evolution Disproves religion NOT a creator. God exists and nobody can prove he doesn't

    Methinks you did not mean to write liberalism. But yes, evolution only discredits some ways of interpreting religious writings.
  7. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    No, I'm saying that for the 30k years that H. neandertalis and H. sapiens coexisted in Europe and Asia until Neandertals became extinct they could not interbreed. That inablity to interbreed may date from as far back as 50-60k years or even further. The evidence is that Neandertals and H...
  8. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    That implies that Neandertals could interbreed with H. sapiens only for a limited period of time after the divergence from the common ancestor (which is not surprising) but that for 30,000 years or so that humans and Neandertals coexisted before Neandertals went extinct that they definitely...
  9. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    And yet that is exactly how it looks. But what we find is that animals that look closely related due to the pattern of all the similarities and differences use very similar methods for finger development for example. We would be talking about multiple speciations of mammals taking place in a...
  10. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    The limited gene flow and the commonality between modern humans from outside africa shows that the interbreeding happened a long time ago, very soon after humans moved out of africa. There is nothing that supports a long period of interbreeding until Neandertals became extinct about 30,000...
  11. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    That view would be out of date, now that we have Neandertal DNA it has been shown that they are a different species. The genetic differences between a black and white person are truly minimal.
  12. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    The rickets argument made by creationists is a lie, while rickets can affect the shape of some bones it does not, for example, change the shape of the skull or affect the shape of the ribcage to any degree even remotely like that found in these fossils.
  13. David M

    Creationists DO believe in Natural Selection and Speciation

    Why would he need to stick with it? Why would he use that model in a way that makes every single species look like it evolved through common descent? Is God intentionally deceiving people? You do realise that this argument requires hyper evolution at a rate never seen? Multiple species of big...
  14. David M

    Adam and Eve as a Myth

    Read up on the Dover trial, pay special attention to the evidence concerning Of Pandas and People, a book that was turned from a creationism school text book to an ID one by, in part, doing a search and replace to swap "creationist" to "design proponent". Then look at the part where, under...
  15. David M

    Adam and Eve as a Myth

    And blood is pretty hard and resistant to decay? because scientists have recovered blood proteins from inside insects preserved in amber. The notion that proteins cannot survive for millions of years under the right conditions is not based on science.
  16. David M

    Discovery Institute's rebuttal of PBS's Judgement Day: Intelligent Design

    The Wedge Strategy, which was written by the DI, demonstrates that its purpose is the promotion of certain religious viewpoints. That makes it a religious organisation. What they tout themselves as is just another example of the DI lying to people (especially as the people in charge have been...
  17. David M

    Adam and Eve as a Myth

    The scientist who made those discoveries (a Christian) refutes that article and has complained about her work being misrepresented by creationists. And the claim that tissues cannot be preserved for 65 million years is garbage, there are insects preserved in amber that are nearly 4 times as...
  18. David M

    Adam and Eve as a Myth

    Your "quick reading" obviously skipped the end of the second paragraph which clearly states that he is a Roman Catholic. He has been quoted as saying that he thinks evolution is "guided by God" (Michael Behe(2000): "Intelligent Design Is Not Creationism", letter to Science magazine, 7 july...
  19. David M

    Adam and Eve as a Myth

    What is funny is that you can read the exact same words and interpret it as being a local flood because the word you take as meaning the whole world can also just mean a large geographic area (e.g. The Land of Israel).
  20. David M

    There is no contradiction in Religion and Science

    What Serpent? There is no serpent on the royal coat of arms. A unicorn, lions and a harp yes, a serpent no.
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