McBell
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Assuming they want to learn.Ignorance can be cured by education.
I strongly suspect that is not the case given her track record in this very thread.
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Assuming they want to learn.Ignorance can be cured by education.
One fossil? One fossil!!??? Are you kidding me? And there is much much more than just countless fossils that are evidence for the theory of evolution.
Seriously since you have no understanding of any of the sciences would you care to try to learn? Right now you are just making a joke of yourself. There is no reason that you cannot learn. You are not lacking in intelligence. You are merely amazingly ignorant. Ignorance can be cured by education.
You are wrong. Did you read the article? If you did you clearly did not understand it. Your comment appears to have nothing to do with the linked article. In fact your entire post is one non sequitur after another. Let me do you a favor. Here is the video that explains the article in much much less detail. It, like the article, is rather old. The music is terrible. But the concepts are solid. I can find a more up to date one for you, but the science has not changed all that much in over ten years:Darwinian evolution can't account for the cilia because you only get the motion of the cilium when you've got everything together. None of the individual parts can do the trick by themselves. You need them all in one place. For evolution to account for that, you would have to imagine how this could develop gradually-but nobody has been able to do that. I don't agree with the explanation that these three components were being used for other purposes in the cell and eventually came together for this new function. For instance, microtubules look a bit like girders. Some people think they were used in the structure of primitive cells. Or maybe they formed the cellular highways along which the motor proteins moved material within the cell. A motor protein that has been transporting cargo along a cellular highway might not have the strength necessary to push two microtubules relative to each other. A nexin liner would have to be exactly the right size before it was useful at all. Creating the cilium inside the cell would be counterproductive; it would need to extend from the cell. The necessary components would have to come together at the right place at the right time, even assuming they were all pre-existing in the cell.
One correction "his" not "her".Assuming they want to learn.
I strongly suspect that is not the case given her track record in this very thread.
You are wrong. Did you read the article? If you did you clearly did not understand it. Your comment appears to have nothing to do with the linked article. In fact your entire post is one non sequitur after another. Let me do you a favor. Here is the video that explains the article in much much less detail. It, like the article, is rather old. The music is terrible. But the concepts are solid. I can find a more up to date one for you, but the science has not changed all that much in over ten years:
Yes, you are right. It is a good thing that evolution does not rely on chance as you are using the word.It's very improbable that they might all come together by chance. Say there are ten thousand proteins in a cell. Now, imagine you live in a town of ten thousand people, and everyone goes to the county fair at the same time. Just for fun, everyone is wearing blindfolds and is not allowed to speak. There are two other people named Lee, and your job is to link hands with them. What are the odds that you could go grab two people at random and create a link of Lees? Pretty slim. In fact, it gets worse. In the cell, the mutation rate is extremely low. In our analogy, that would mean you could only change partners at the county fair one time a year. So you link with two other people-sorry, they're not the Lees. Next year, you link with two other people. Sorry, no Lees again. How long would it take you with the other Lees? A very, very long time-and the same is true in the cell. It would take an enormous amount of time-a prohibitive amount of time-even to get three proteins together.
Apart from one fossil, evolution from one species to another has no evidence.
Behe is a crank employed by the Discovery Institute, who was thoroughly discredited at the Kitzmiller trial and whose reputation has never recovered. Nobody in the science community takes Behe seriously.Biochemist Dr. Michael Behe, who argues that evolution never have given rise to the intricate structures of life, has identified something he calls "irreducible complexity." This refers to an organism which is so complex that it could not have come together piece by piece and still function; all the parts must have come about at once in order to have any function at all.
There is no scientific evidence for this designer, so science makes no use of this hypothesis (Ockham's Razor).Bill Gates said that DNA is more advanced than any software they ever created. Wouldn't the cell have a designer, since it's far more advanced than any man made software? Researchers believe DNA could be the basis of a staggeringly powerful new generation of computers. After computer scientist Leonard Aldeman realized that human cells and computers process and store information in much the same way, researchers around the world began creating tiny biology-based creating, using test tubes of DNA-laden water to crunch algorithms and spit out data. Researchers are also hoping that genetic material can self-replicate and grow into processors so powerful that they can handle problems too complex for silicon-based computers to solve.
Something that you, and in fact most creationists, suffer from is this silly or mendacious notion, I don't know which, that evolution is the outcome of a process consisting of "chance". The whole point about evolution is something called natural selection.It's very improbable that they might all come together by chance. Say there are ten thousand proteins in a cell. Now, imagine you live in a town of ten thousand people, and everyone goes to the county fair at the same time. Just for fun, everyone is wearing blindfolds and is not allowed to speak. There are two other people named Lee, and your job is to link hands with them. What are the odds that you could go grab two people at random and create a link of Lees? Pretty slim. In fact, it gets worse. In the cell, the mutation rate is extremely low. In our analogy, that would mean you could only change partners at the county fair one time a year. So you link with two other people-sorry, they're not the Lees. Next year, you link with two other people. Sorry, no Lees again. How long would it take you with the other Lees? A very, very long time-and the same is true in the cell. It would take an enormous amount of time-a prohibitive amount of time-even to get three proteins together.
You can pull these examples out of your arse till the cows come home but they prove nothing, except that living organism are complex. Nobody denies that.What about a glowing protein in jellyfish that allows surgeons to illuminate cancerous tissue while they operate to remove it; and a starfish called the brittlestar, coated with tiny lenses that act as a collective "eye," which engineers are using as a model for creating sensors and guidance systems. The giraffe needs a powerful heart to pump blood up its long neck to the brain. If we want to believe in evolution, let's imagine that the very first giraffe manages to evolve the two-foot-long heart it needs to get blood up a neck that long. Its heart is now so powerful that, as the giraffe bends its head down, the increased blood pressure is more than enough to burst the blood vessels in its brain. So this first giraffe must be intelligent enough to realize that an improvement is needed and then set out to somehow grow an incredibly complex organ structure to fix the problem.
And it must do so within a matter of days-before it dies of thirst or brain damage-or else this new species will shortly be extinct. (Of course, how would it know an improvement was needed unless it had first had a brain hemorrhage? And then it wouldn't know anything, it would be dead.)
Nebraska Man was created from a single tooth discovered in Nebraska. Based on only one tooth (and a lot of imagination), Nebraska Man was sketched complete with a skull, skeleton, tools, and even a family. The only problem is that the tooth was later found to have come from an extinct pig!
There is no reason that you cannot learn. You are not lacking in intelligence. You are merely amazingly ignorant. Ignorance can be cured by education.
I have found in those cases a two by four can be effectiveIgnorance that is the result of severe religious indoctrination cannot be cured by education.
There are occasional exceptions like Marjoe Gortner, but they are few and far between.
This has to be one of the most absurd statements I've ever read from a creationist (and that's saying a lot, they come out with endless absurdities). What planet are you on? Not only are there countless fossils that support evolution but we could forget all the fossils and provide a complete case for evolution from genetics alone.
Have you dug out some old creationist book from decades ago or something? You're coming out with all the endlessly refuted nonsense that even most creationists have given up on years ago.
I can think of only one fossil that supports macroevolution. Microevolution is variation within species. There is great variety within dogs-the tiny Chihuahua to the huge Great Dane. Both are dogs and they have incredible differences. But they are still dogs. Or look at horses. There are huge variations within the human species. Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. Darwin's theory of evolution, however, is based on the concept of macroevolution. This is the inference that successive small changes seen in macroevolution (these variations within species) can accumulate and lead to large changes over long periods of time. In macroevolution, one kind of creature (such as a reptile) becomes another kind of creature (such as a bird), requiring the creation of entirely new features and body types. This would be a bit like observing a car going from 0 to 60 mph in 60 seconds, and inferring that it can then go 0 to 6,000 mph in 100 minutes-and become an airplane in the process. That's quite an assumption, and it puts a tremendous responsibility on mutations to accidentally create complex new body parts, and on natural selection to recognize the benefit these new parts will eventually convey and make sure the creatures with those new parts survive.
Pointless waffle. My points stand. There is endless fossil evidence for macroevolution (which is just lots of microevolution) and the entire case could be made from genetics alone without referencing a single fossil.
Why don't you correct your appalling ignorance of the subject and get yourself some sort of basic education before bearing false witness (intentionally or through ignorance) to other people?
How can mutations and natural selection work to create the amazing complexity of life in our world?
Mutations can only modify or eliminate existing structures, not create new ones