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  1. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Whatever gorillas and chimpanzees evolve into, they will still be apes and primates and mammals. In particular, gorillas and chimpanzees will never evolve into humans. That is not how evolution works.
  2. Astrophile

    Evolution My ToE

  3. Astrophile

    Evolution My ToE

    Do you accept that modern herrings, cod, halibut, swordfish, catfish, tuna, sunfish, etc. evolved from the very different species of fish that lived during the Devonian period, or do you think that they were separately created?
  4. Astrophile

    Evolution My ToE

    I might believe in God if he could read my heart and tell me when it is going to stop beating.
  5. Astrophile

    Evolution My ToE

    There is a simpler explanation for a young unmarried woman's becoming pregnant than either magic or miracles. Most people, even most Christians, would accept this simpler explanation if it happened to a woman they knew. It is only when we read the story in an old book that we are willing to...
  6. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Who is the earliest ancestor that you can remember? A grandparent or a great-grandparent? Do you understand that this earliest ancestor was once a baby, born from parents who died before you were born? These parents, in turn, were once babies, born from an even earlier generation of ancestors...
  7. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Humans remain apes, and primates, and mammals, and vertebrates.
  8. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Quite right. Would you like another example? Australopithecines (such as 'Lucy') were apes. Humans are descended from australopithecines. Therefore humans are apes. We have not evolved into animals that are not apes. QED. Immediately, from the collapse of the dense core of an interstellar...
  9. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    What conclusion do you infer from your supposed facts?
  10. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    I think that you see what I am driving at, and also I see what you are driving at. If you accept that the 4000 species (or varieties) of fruit flies descended (or evolved) from a common ancestral species without becoming anything but fruit flies, you have no reason to deny that the 6400 extant...
  11. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    And a primate, and a mammal, and a vertebrate, and an animal.
  12. Astrophile

    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    I think it is extremely improbable, and that the idea is bordering on pseudoscience. As I have said before, the logical difficulty with all such hypotheses is that the extra-terrestrial visitors themselves must have evolved from simpler forms of life. Either this simpler life got started somehow...
  13. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    I think that I must have misunderstood you. You said that fruit flies have not become anything but fruit flies, from which I inferred (wrongly, as it now seems) that you were saying that this fact meant that fruit flies had not evolved, and that they would have to change into something...
  14. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    There are about 4000 species in the family Drosophilidae, or 'small fruit flies' - Drosophilidae - Wikipedia . These species are all descended from a common ancestor. However, since none of them have changed into anything but 'small fruit flies', this diversity of species is not evolution...
  15. Astrophile

    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    Yes. Many scientific hypotheses have been conclusively disproved and consequently abandoned by scientists.
  16. Astrophile

    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    The fact that nothing can be proven scientifically does not mean that all hypotheses are equally probable or that they are all supported by the same amount of evidence. The scientific consensus depends on the weight of the evidence for the different hypotheses.
  17. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Let's examine the two stories point by point. Matthew doesn't say anything about Zechariah and Elizabeth or the birth of John the Baptist. He doesn't say anything about the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Mary, or about Mary's visit to Elizabeth and Zechariah. He doesn't say anything about...
  18. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    The birth stories of Jesus in Matthew and Luke are so different as to be irreconcilable. There is no reason to believe that either is true. It seems to me to be unreasonable to base a belief in the virgin birth of Jesus on two stories that differ on almost every other point. Haven't you ever...
  19. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    It may have been Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel, who published a seminal paper entitled 'Directed Panspermia' in 1973. The logical difficulty with all hypotheses of this kind is that either life had to get started on the planet that the extra-terrestrials came from, which merely puts the origin...
  20. Astrophile

    On Evolution & Creation

    Why do you think that Tiktaalik is not transitional between fish and tetrapods? What is there about Tiktaalik that convinces you that it was not descended from Early Devonian sarcopterygian fish and that it cannot be ancestral to Late Devonian tetrapods? Do you think that Tiktaalik came into...
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