Controversial Topic (Creation vs Evolution 2?)

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jaredjm escribió:

if there was confirmable and undeniable proof of evolution, then there would be no controversy

That'd be the case if people didn't fall for personal incredulity fallacies all the time.

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@GRANDMASTER_100,

In order to remember key points that disprove Darwinian evolution—the “molecules to man” theory”

OK I can stop reading right there. Any moron who doesn’t know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis shouldn’t be taken seriously. 

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GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

 

 

There are tons of problems with that website and your logic, for starters, about 0.01% of american biologists signed the dissent so it shows an overwhelming majority in favor of evolution.

Second, most who signed the dissent are not biologists so their opinion are as relevant as an average joe as their expertise is not biology.

Third, even if we ignored all of what I just said, this would still not suffice as it is an argument from authority.

Forth, the website itself is a strawman as the claim is that only random mutations and natural selection can't create the diversity we observe. Modern day evolution has many other factors including gene flow, genetic combination, genetic drift, etc.

Fifth, the movement has failed to produce any papers or findings that are worth publishing, ie, they've got no evidence.

These and more problems are discussed in the wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scientific_Dissent_from_Darwinism

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There are tons of problems with that website and your logic, for starters, about 0.01% of american biologists signed the dissent so it shows an overwhelming majority in favor of evolution.

Second, most who signed the dissent are not biologists so their opinion are as relevant as an average joe as their expertise is not biology.

Third, even if we ignored all of what I just said, this would still not suffice as it is an argument from authority.

Forth, the website itself is a strawman as the claim is that only random mutations and natural selection can't create the diversity we observe. Modern day evolution has many other factors including gene flow, genetic combination, genetic drift, etc.

Fifth, the movement has failed to produce any papers or findings that are worth publishing, ie, they've got no evidence.

These and more problems are discussed in the wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scientific_Dissent_from_Darwinism

That video was created in February this year.

Now watch the second one and read the next thing I posted and then give us your opinion, Have fun, happy.png

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GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

 

 

Regarding the other video, I can only say that bold claims requier bold evidence and that evidence should be published in peer reviewed journals instead of a politically biased "institution" that invites people without expertise on the topic to talk about it.

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USArmyParatrooper wrote:

@GRANDMASTER_100,

In order to remember key points that disprove Darwinian evolution—the “molecules to man” theory”

OK I can stop reading right there. Any moron who doesn’t know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis shouldn’t be taken seriously. 

Any moron who chooses to denounce someone else's opinion without studying it carefully shouldn't be taken seriously. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but it's unfair to simply stop reading at a sentence you didn't like and then comment that the author is moronic. (I think "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies here)

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I'm not wasting one hour of my life watching that, summarize it if you want.

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GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

I found a great source and I've just copied and pasted the information onto here:

In order to remember key points that disprove Darwinian evolution—the “molecules to man” theory—we’ll use the acronym FALSE. (A few of these points also disprove the compromise of theistic evolution—the notion that God employed macroevolution over eons in forming the creatures we see on earth today.)

F for Fossils
A fossil is the preserved remains of a living thing. The fossil record around the earth extends an average of one mile deep. Below this level we come up with a blank slate as far as living, complex creatures are concerned.

I collect fossils of what are deemed the earliest type of complex creatures with hard bodies—trilobites. No previous ancestors of these arthropods have been found. Similar to some marine “bugs” we see today on the seashore that disappear into the sand when the waves retreat, trilobites had hard shells, all the basic organs, and complex eyes like those of flies, with hundreds of sophisticated lenses connected to the optic nerve going to the brain. Trilobite fossils are found around the earth, and in all cases the level of rock beneath them does not reveal other creatures with similar features.

As one source states: “The dominant life form was the now-extinct sea creature known as a trilobite, up to a foot long, with a distinctive head and tail, a body made up of several parts, and a complex respiratory system. But although there are many places on earth where 5,000 feet of sedimentary rock stretch unbroken and uniformly beneath the Cambrian [layer], not a single indisputable multi-celled fossil has been found there. It is ‘the enigma of paleontological [fossil studies] enigmas,’ according to Stephen Gould. Darwin himself said he could give ‘no satisfactory answer’ to why no fossils had been discovered. Today’s scientists are none the wiser” (Francis Hitching, The Neck of the Giraffe , 1982, pp. 26-27).

Question: If, after almost two centuries of digging beneath all the world’s continents, no previous ancestor of this first hard-bodied creature has been found, how then did the ubiquitous trilobite evolve? There should be some previous ancestor if evolution were true.

It’s like finding an exquisite watch on the seashore and yet never finding any previous primitive models of the watch on earth. If you reasoned as an evolutionist, you would deny there was a need for a watchmaker at all, maintaining that time, water, sand, minerals and actions of the elements are sufficient to producing a fully functional watch that runs. This is part of the reason it takes more faith to believe in evolution than in a Creator!

Further important evidence from the fossil record is the absence of transitional forms between species. Darwin was concerned that the thousands of intermediate stages between creatures needed to prove his theory were not in evidence, but he expected they would eventually be found. Yet those thousands of missing transitional forms are still missing!

Another reference explains: “If throughout past ages life was actually drifting over in one continual stream from one form to another, it is to be expected that as many samples of the intermediate stages between species should be discovered in fossil condition as of the species themselves … All should be in a state of flux. But these missing links are wanting. There are no fossils of creatures whose scales were changing into feathers or whose feet were changing into wings, no fossils of fish getting legs or of reptiles getting hair. The real task of the geological evolutionist is not to find ‘the’ missing link, as if there were only one. The task is to find those thousands upon thousands of missing links that connect the many fossil species with one another” (Byron Nelson, After Its Kind , 1970, pp. 60-62).

The absence of transitional forms is an insurmountable hurdle for theistic evolutionists as well. It also fits with our next point.

A for Assumption
When there is no real evidence, evolutionary scientists simply make assumptions.

If evolution were true, then where is the evidence of different types of animals now “evolving” into other types? Where is the evidence of cats, dogs and horses gradually turning into something else? We do see changes within species, but we do not see any changes into other species. And, as mentioned, we see no evidence of gradual change in the fossil record either. Yet evolutionists continue to assume that transitional forms must have existed.

In Darwin’s landmark book On the Origin of Species there are some 800 subjective clauses, with uncertainty repeatedly admitted instead of proof. Words such as “could,” “perhaps” and “possibly” plague the entire book.

Evolution is still called a theory—a possible explanation or assumption—because it is not testable according to the scientific method, as this would require thousands or millions of years. Evolutionists will counter that a theory is not a mere hypothesis but is a widely affirmed intellectual construct that generally appears to fit all the facts. Yet evolution in no way fits all the facts available. Evidence does not support it—and in many respects runs counter to it.

L for Life
The law of biogenesis as taught in biology class states that only life can produce life.

You’ve probably heard the famous question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a real dilemma for an evolutionist to answer. An egg comes from a chicken, yet the chicken comes from an egg. How can there be one without the other?

To complicate matters even more, the chicken has to come from a fertilized egg that has the mixture of two different genetic strains from both its parents. So the problem of the origin of life and initial reproduction is still a mystery that evolutionary science cannot adequately answer.

Yet for someone who believes in special creation by a Creator, there is no dilemma here. First God made the male and female chickens, which produced the first fertilized egg—and the rest is history.

S for Symbiosis
When one living thing needs another different living thing to survive, it’s called a symbiotic relationship.

A good example of this is the relationship between bees and flowers. The bees need the nectar from some types of flowers to feed while these flowers need bees to pollinate them. Both depend on each other to exist and survive. The question for evolutionists is: How did these plants exist without the bees, and how did the bees exist without these plants?

Again, atheistic scientists are stumped. Theistic evolutionists are perplexed as well. Yet if you believe in a Creator who specially created the various forms of life on earth, the answer is simple—both were created at about the same time.

E for Engineering
All living things are exquisitely engineered or designed. Qualitatively, a bacterium is as majestically built for its purpose as a human body is for its function. Yet evolution says it’s only an illusion of design—that there is no real designer behind it. Reality is not an illusion! Living things are multi-functional, which means they do many complex things at the same time, something evolution with its step-by-step process has never been able to demonstrate.

One example of a living thing with exquisite engineering is the tree. It provides breathable oxygen for us while processing carbon dioxide, which would in high amounts in the air be toxic to us. It supplies wood, housing for birds, roots to limit erosion, fruit and seeds to eat, is biodegradable and gives shade. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, “A healthy tree provides a cooling effect that is equivalent to 10 room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day.” How could something so complex arise from a random, undirected evolutionary process?

Again, you need more “faith” to believe in blind evolution than in an all-knowing Creator who designed the marvelous tree in the first place.

Now you have five proofs that evolution is F-A-L-S-E and that special creation is true—and we didn’t even use the Bible. Remember the acronym FALSE when you read or hear about evolution—and do take time to read our Creator’s great book of truth (The Bible)! It has much to say regarding origins.

F for not searching on google for 10 seconds

Parvancorina: a Precambrian trilobite ancestor? 

.The similarity of the Precambrian Parvancorina to the Cambrian Chengjiang arthropod Primicaris larvaformis, and a protaspid of a Cambrian trilobite is seen to the left. All three have an ovoid form, and an anchor-like structure made up of an axial lobe and lateral lobes running along the anterior and lateral edges of the body.  Primicaris was first thought to be a larval naraoid (e.g., Hou & Bergstrom 1997), but it was recognized more recently as taxon in its own right (Zhang et al 2003). Recapitulating  phylogeny, the trilobite protaspid resembles Primicaris. If the similarity of Parvancorina to Primicaris is more than superficial, it is perhaps the best candidate for an early arthropod in the Precambrian. 

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Um what are we supposed to do with that?

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A for a moron forgets where the majority of domestic animals came from.

In all seriousness, we have seen evolution happen with rabbits and some bacteria.

http://myxo.css.msu.edu/lenski/pdf/2004,%20Plant%20Breeding%20Reviews,%20Lenski.pdf

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S for super-filler God of gaps. Also, a symbiotic relationship doesn't mean the organism can't live without his partner, it only means they have an easier life.

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E for ew, another watchmaker analogy. I already debunked that.

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GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

Um what are we supposed to do with that?

Learn to ditch moronic models that don't predict anything.

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GRANDMASTER_100 wrote:
USArmyParatrooper wrote:

@GRANDMASTER_100,

In order to remember key points that disprove Darwinian evolution—the “molecules to man” theory”

OK I can stop reading right there. Any moron who doesn’t know the difference between evolution and abiogenesis shouldn’t be taken seriously. 

Any moron who chooses to denounce someone else's opinion without studying it carefully shouldn't be taken seriously. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, but it's unfair to simply stop reading at a sentence you didn't like and then comment that the author is moronic. (I think "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies here)

The author doesn’t even know what evolution IS. Why should I read something that attempts to refute something that isn’t even the topic? 

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Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
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Regarding the other video, I can only say that bold claims requier bold evidence and that evidence should be published in peer reviewed journals instead of a politically biased "institution" that invites people without expertise on the topic to talk about it.

This post encompasses the concept of ignorance. You refuse to watch the video and then suggest that the evidence isn't published in peer reviewed journals and that those guys do not have expertise on the topic that they were invited to talk about. Give me a break.

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GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:
Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

 

 

Regarding the other video, I can only say that bold claims requier bold evidence and that evidence should be published in peer reviewed journals instead of a politically biased "institution" that invites people without expertise on the topic to talk about it.

This post encompasses the concept of ignorance. You refuse to watch the video and then suggest that the evidence isn't published in peer reviewed journals and that those guys do not have expertise on the topic that they were invited to talk about. Give me a break.

An interview with a bunch of irrelevant people is simply not evidence, period.

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Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:
Prometheus_Fuschs wrote:
GRANDMASTER_100 escribió:

 

 

Regarding the other video, I can only say that bold claims requier bold evidence and that evidence should be published in peer reviewed journals instead of a politically biased "institution" that invites people without expertise on the topic to talk about it.

This post encompasses the concept of ignorance. You refuse to watch the video and then suggest that the evidence isn't published in peer reviewed journals and that those guys do not have expertise on the topic that they were invited to talk about. Give me a break.

An interview with a bunch of irrelevant people is simply not evidence, period.

Irrelevant to who? You? Were you expecting Charles Darwin himself to be there?

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@GRANDMASTER_100, do you acknowledge that the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that evolution is a fact of biology? 

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Just realised the theory of evolution is circular reasoning, in that evidence for it is interpreted as supporting evolution, but evolution is required to interpret the evidence. Lol grin.png

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I’ll see how many posts there are in the morning goodnight!

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