C
Charles_Darwin
Guest
mistake
confusionmistake
Anyone that believes there was a world wide flood 4000 years is beyond help.If the bible must be taken literally than please answer me this- the water that flooded the Earth: was it salt water or fresh water?
Then you are scientifically illiterate.I believe there was a flood 4000 years ago. I believe there was an ark. I believe the Scriptures reveal a geocentric earth. I cannot believe so many believe in that imbicilic evolutionism. So there.
Talk Origins said:3.Evolution has been the basis of many predictions. For example:
•Darwin predicted, based on homologies with African apes, that human ancestors arose in Africa. That prediction has been supported by fossil and genetic evidence (Ingman et al. 2000).
•Theory predicted that organisms in heterogeneous and rapidly changing environments should have higher mutation rates. This has been found in the case of bacteria infecting the lungs of chronic cystic fibrosis patients (Oliver et al. 2000).
•Predator-prey dynamics are altered in predictable ways by evolution of the prey (Yoshida et al. 2003).
•Ernst Mayr predicted in 1954 that speciation should be accompanied with faster genetic evolution. A phylogenetic analysis has supported this prediction (Webster et al. 2003).
•Several authors predicted characteristics of the ancestor of craniates. On the basis of a detailed study, they found the fossil Haikouella “fit these predictions closely” (Mallatt and Chen 2003).
•Evolution predicts that different sets of character data should still give the same phylogenetic trees. This has been confirmed informally myriad times and quantitatively, with different protein sequences, by Penny et al. (1982).
•Insect wings evolved from gills, with an intermediate stage of skimming on the water surface. Since the primitive surface-skimming condition is widespread among stoneflies, J. H. Marden predicted that stoneflies would likely retain other primitive traits, too. This prediction led to the discovery in stoneflies of functional hemocyanin, used for oxygen transport in other arthropods but never before found in insects (Hagner-Holler et al. 2004; Marden 2005).
It does seem rare for an explanation on the internet, this should help:This still does not explain gills to lungs.
Peace,
Ed
It wasn’t an explanation, it was a response to the earlier notion that evolution’s predictions fail. The link shows they clearly don’t.Thank you for the link. It does not explain anything. It simply tells the viewer that this followed this which followed that.
Everyone who knows what they’re talking about disagrees with you, so you must have some massive amount of evidence to support this idea. I can’t wait to see you win the Nobel prize this year when you reveal your proof that information increases must be directed. In fact, since it’s a mathematical fact that information increases do not require direction, and it’s a fact that we can point to numerous examples of this, you must have one wickedly clever proof.The mechanisms involved would require a vast and directed increase of information to create novel organs and the internal construction blueprints.
If they did that would disprove evolution. No one has ever suggested that bacteria should be capable of sprouting arms and legs.And bacteria? Please. Millions and millions of bacteria can grow in a short time but they do not sprout arms or legs.
When human actions (intellect and will) cannot be located in physical bones, muscle, tissue, brain, etc. which has been suggested by evolutionary theory, then there has to be another source and it sure isn’t Walmart.I’ve not looked into this, but even if we don’t know so what? We dont know != god did it.
Probability theory denies that vast increases of genetic information are possible via random mutation and natural selection. The mutated organism would have to have a beneficial mutation and would have to be in the right environment at the right time for this mutation to be a benefit. And the world is a dynamic environment as opposed to a lab. Disease, lack of food or water, flood, fire and predators can kill the lucky mutant before he reproduces.It wasn’t an explanation, it was a response to the earlier notion that evolution’s predictions fail. The link shows they clearly don’t.
Everyone who knows what they’re talking about disagrees with you, so you must have some massive amount of evidence to support this idea. I can’t wait to see you win the Nobel prize this year when you reveal your proof that information increases must be directed. In fact, since it’s a mathematical fact that information increases do not require direction, and it’s a fact that we can point to numerous examples of this, you must have one wickedly clever proof.
If they did that would disprove evolution. No one has ever suggested that bacteria should be capable of sprouting arms and legs.
You are horrifically misapplying probability theory. Given an vast number amount of mutations in every individual, it is completely within reason that beneficial mutations occur, and are passed down. And while not all beneficial mutations are passed down, the fact that those with beneficial mutations are MORE LIKELY to survive and reproduce and a large number of individual and mutations allow us to assume that beneficial mutations win out in the end by the Law of Large Numbers. Irreducible complexity has been debunked in every case to which it has been applied- systems that were presumed to be irreducibly complex had functions prior to their current state. For example, feathers had purpose prior to flight and 10 of the proteins making up the bacterial flagella also functioned on their own as a sort of syringe to inject toxins into other molecular organisms.Probability theory denies that vast increases of genetic information are possible via random mutation and natural selection. The mutated organism would have to have a beneficial mutation and would have to be in the right environment at the right time for this mutation to be a benefit. And the world is a dynamic environment as opposed to a lab. Disease, lack of food or water, flood, fire and predators can kill the lucky mutant before he reproduces.
Unless you can show how DNA acquires useful, directed information, the explanations do not hold up. In order to build a complex device, parts need to go to the right location and be assembled in the correct order; if not, you only get partial function or no function. I have yet to see any explanation for information being added to DNA that could slowly, gradually build a novel organ.
Peace,
Ed
You are the luck winner - once again it’s time to play;You are horrifically misapplying probability theory. Given an vast number amount of mutations in every individual, it is completely within reason that beneficial mutations occur, and are passed down. And while not all beneficial mutations are passed down, the fact that those with beneficial mutations are MORE LIKELY to survive and reproduce and a large number of individual and mutations allow us to assume that beneficial mutations win out in the end by the Law of Large Numbers. Irreducible complexity has been debunked in every case to which it has been applied- systems that were presumed to be irreducibly complex had functions prior to their current state. For example, feathers had purpose prior to flight and 10 of the proteins making up the bacterial flagella also functioned on their own as a sort of syringe to inject toxins into other molecular organisms.
Another unfounded statement that contradicts all of modern science.If some process like evolution occurred, it had to be guided.
A list has been provided for you that contradicts this, go back and read it.Currently, the ‘predictions’ of evolution are no more than observations of current living things and a lot of imagination.
That’s not how evolution works, and the “proof” isn’t an animated cartoon. Please educate yourself before you run your mouth about things you don’t understand.We have bacteria, and fish, amphibians and land-dwelling creatures. Then you convince people that first there were bacteria, then there were fish and then there were amphibians, followed by land-dwelling creatures. Some fish in the past could suddenly just gulp air, decided they liked it and spent more time on land? That’s conjecture - a story - and not a very good one. Then, while they were flopping around on land, their fins decided to turn into legs? I mean it looks good animated but that is not proof that it happened that way.
The evolution of the flagellum is well understood, go look it up.A part for the flagellum was first something syringe-like? Another story. In order for the syringe to work, the plunger must be precisely the right size. Too big, it won’t fit. Too small and air gets in, giving partial or zero function.
You seem to have ignored the fact that probability theory actually supports evolution through random mutation, and stuck with your original argument despite the fact that it’s basis has been debunked.If some process like evolution occurred, it had to be guided. Currently, the ‘predictions’ of evolution are no more than observations of current living things and a lot of imagination.
We have bacteria, and fish, amphibians and land-dwelling creatures. Then you convince people that first there were bacteria, then there were fish and then there were amphibians, followed by land-dwelling creatures. Some fish in the past could suddenly just gulp air, decided they liked it and spent more time on land? That’s conjecture - a story - and not a very good one. Then, while they were flopping around on land, their fins decided to turn into legs? I mean it looks good animated but that is not proof that it happened that way.
A part for the flagellum was first something syringe-like? Another story. In order for the syringe to work, the plunger must be precisely the right size. Too big, it won’t fit. Too small and air gets in, giving partial or zero function.
Peace,
Ed