Autodidact:
Kettlewell an eminent scientist ?...DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH.!..He was a fraud...pure and simple...He purposefully ' staged' his moth photos ( using pins and glue )...Wilfully MISREPRESENTING ' DEAD ' speciments as 'LIVE' ones ...and later admitting to this !
Kettlewell's...
Hela :
DreGod07 :
I was responding to Camanintx smug and condescending assertions that I obviously ' WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND' Douglas Adam's arguments against/ objections to the notion that the cosmos appears ‘ fine tuned’ Camanintx was clearly baiting/ acting condescendingly /...
Autodidact:
What other universes ? We know of none...and we have evidence for none. The odds against our Anthropic universe appearing ' spontaneously/ purely by chance '...have been calculated by considering mathematically the effect on cosmological ' evolution' of tweaking any one of the...
Camanintx:
NONSENSE...IF any ONE of the universal constants were even slightly different than they are...NO LIFE...I repeat NO LIFE of any kind would be possible...nor even would any galaxies be possible...nor even would any atoms heavier than hydrogen or helium be possible !
Camanintx...
I believe I said that they ' appear' fine tuned...Quite a number of renown physicists have said that there is NO logical reason, the universal constants had to take ' the specific' values that they did ( leastways not if the birth and subsequent ' evolution' of the cosmos was a blind/...
No it was reported in Richard Lewontin's book ' It ain't necessarily so '
Yeah that's what they said about ' Austalopithecines' being a bonafide human ancestors, based on its physiology/ the shape of its bones etc....Now many of those same Anthropologists are furiously backtracking...
WOW...Have the police been called ? :) You will find many similar errors in many renown books by famous scientists ...Shyte happens...
I'd have to look back ...cause I can't even recall that guy's name off the top of my head...BUT ...I know which quote your talking about...If I erroneously...
...his data WAS reportedly doctored...much like his photographs were staged...You can't sift through your data to make it fit your preconceptions ...reportedly, that's what Kettlewell DID...
Also the fact that his photos were ' faked' and that he initially tried to pass them off as ' natural'...
Mistakes often get reproduced in textbooks ad nauseam...Have you forgotten about Haeckel's Bogus theory of ' embryonic recapitulation' already ? That was misrepresented as ' indisputable' science fact, in literally hundreds of science text books, by renown ' experts' for more than a century ...
Camanintx :
No whatever isn't bracketed by quotation marks, or emboldened in green...as a quotation...I wrote
Might be paraphrased/ summarized from a variety of diverse sources ...BUT I wrote it...
Camanintx :
About the same time that you provide references that PROVE it's transitional ...
There is NO evidence that it's a ' transitional species' between fish and four footed land creatures/ vertebrates NONE !
talk about Tiktaalik being a ' transitonal' speces is just cheap talk / pure...
Autodidact :
I'm saying we can't find any ' transitional' part-ape/ part something else...in the fossil record...and I believe this is what Lyall Watson is saying too...
Camanintx :
What conclusions ? That Kettlewell's study showed ' Darwinian' evolution in action ? It DIDN"T. For the third time ... This was NOT an example of an ' ADAPTIVE MUTATION' Both dark and light versions of peppered moths predate coal pollution. The genes for both already existed...
Autodidact:
Nor has there ever been a single discovery that confirms this ' common' ancestry. But even if all life on earth can be traced to a common ancestor ( which again is in serious doubt ) ...So What ? This still does not prove that this fleshly evolution was ' Darwinian' ...In other...
Scientists cannot find a single transitional species which links any distinct/ recognized ' phylum'
They can't ' irrefutably ' find the mysterious ' missing links' between fish and four footed vertebrates either, nor between amphibians and reptiles, nor between reptiles and birds, nor between...
Autodidact:
Kettlewell himself admtted that he doctored his photos and that the moths in the pictures were actually pinned or glued to the bark of trees...this is discussed in Richard Lewontin's ( a renown biologist and a staunch Darwinist btw ) book ' It ain't necessarily so ' . I read that...
Camanintx :
What's your definition of ' modern' horses...If there are creatures which are recognizably ' Horses' ( modern or not ) in the fossil record, in/ on the same strata as Eohippus ...then Eohippus is clearly not a ' transitional species' which gave rise to horses...
Btw do you have...
Midnight Blue :
I wrote that paenthetical comment...so you're calling me a ' Liar' here eh ?
there’s no lie, deliberate or otherwise... and frankly I RESENT the crass/cowardly insinuation...although I should have said ( for man’s ‘ Darwinian ‘ evolutionary origins...
Camanintx :
They're JUST SPECULATING...they don't know this for a fact...and the fact that so many agree is hardly suprising...' Evolutionary biology' is a pretty small niche, and you wouldn't get far ' career wise' by ' rocking the boat' when it comes to established wisdom/ orthodoxy....We...
Camanintx :
What pure unadulterated nonsense ! You’ve PROVEN NOTHING here... except that there were prehistoric APES...So what ? It’s been estimated that ninety percent of ape species that ever lived... have gone extinct ( and that estimate may be conservative )
BUT from...