Is Darwin's Theory of Evolution True? Part 4.0

[buffalo]

WIKI def - “A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which two individuals can produce fertile offspring,”

Man devised this scheme not God. In any case speciation is the loss of an ability once had.

He willed there to be different types (also called kinds). The swimming creature, the flying creatures the walking creatures.

How many you supposed He needed in the beginning? 3,4 100, 1 million?

 

[buffalo]

Predictions in Biology

ID predicts the presence of specified complexity in living systems.
ID predicts that, as scientific research progresses, biological complexity will be seen to increase over time, and information will have a more and more central role in the governing of life’s operations.
ID predicts an increase in evidence for the non-adequacy of the DNA-centric view of living systems.
ID predicts that complex molecular convergence will happen routinely.
ID predicts the presence of irreducible complexity with respect to macromolecular systems and organelles.
ID predicts that the prevalence of functional protein folds with respect to combinatorial sequence space will be extremely small.
ID predicts that evolutionary pathways to new protein functions will require multiple co-ordinated non-adaptive mutations (more so than likely to be achieved by a random process).
ID predicts that DNA, which was once considered to be junk, will turn out to be functional after all.
ID predicts delicate optimisation and fine-tuning with respect to many features associated with biological systems.
ID predicts that organisms will exhibit in-built systems which promote evolvability (e.g. front loading).

 

[Scott2]

The purely materialist explanation is incompatible with Catholic teaching.

Assuming you mean Materialism. No body here is making that argument.

 

[ratio1]

Are there planned experiments to verify these predictions?

 

[benjamin1973]

What color were Adam and Eve, in your expert evaluation?

 

[ratio1]

The thread needs to evolve into 5.0

 

[benjamin1973]

So you are not only against evolution, but you do not believe in classification? You do not see that lions, tigers and house cats are distinct from each other, but still members of the cat family?

 

[benjamin1973]

Obvious copied list is obvious. Please just give the link.

 

[edwest211]

The Biology textbook can offer nothing else.

 

[Glark]

This is the end, my only friend, the end.

 

[Glark]

Saint Augustine argued against a literal interpretation of Genesis. He actually chastised those that did.

Nonsense. You are regurgitating oft-repeated but idiotic and false evolutionist propaganda. Saint Augustine did nothing of the sort. The Church has always taught that the faithful may believe in a literal “six days” interpretation of Genesis - do you seriously believe Augustine opposed an official Church teaching that has existed from the very beginning and has been held by 99.9% of the Church Fathers?

What Augustine was opposed to was “Reckless and incompetent expounders of Sacred Scripture” who contradicted well-known facts of nature with their “nonsense” exegesis. Their “utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements” brought shame, trouble and embarrassment to the Church, as well as giving infidels a false impression of what Catholics believe.

 

[Glark]

Wait, wait, wait…just who were the humans that observed the first 5 days of creation in Genesis - “the light in Genesis” - if Adam was created on the 6th day…and on which day exactly was it that Eve was created from Adam’s rib?

Someone called God witnessed it all - the author of the book.

 

[Glark]

Can you remember that that professor’s name? I would like to add him to my “Catholic Warriors” list.

 

[Aloysium]

That there are Catholics still arguing against Evolution Science is embracing because their arguments aren’t grounded in reason.

Fascinating! Really amazing! I don’t get it!

You can’t possibly hear what people are saying; or perhaps the indoctrination goes so deep that the illusion has become truth. I’ll bet however on not bothering to listen and think about what people are posting.

 

[PetraG]

Vague…

I’m referring to the five mass extinction events in the fossil record. There are periods in which a huge number of organisms just stop showing up in the fossil record, all in the same geologic epoch.

 

[Techno2000]

Part 4.1 coming up

 

[PetraG]

Part 4.1 coming up

Have fun!!!

 

[Techno2000]

Part 4.1 coming up

We will !!!

 

[rossum]

It takes evolution millions of years to do anything about it…too late to be of any value.

Exactly, which is why so many species died out in the aftermath of the impact. The environment had changed too fast for evolution to deal with.

rossum

 

[J_the_Centrist]

Glark:

It wouldn’t surprise me if you are in fact an atheist masquerading as a Catholic. Many of your opinons are decidely atheistic.

How strange that my views, which you think are atheistic, are crucial to the survival of Christianity as a credible religion, in the face of yours, which you think are theistic, but are responsible for its decline. Let’s hope you don’t smother it altogether.

This is entirely untrue. The future of Christianity is NOT based on whether one believes in evolution or not, it is whether we believe in Christ or not. I believe in evolution and I am more familiar with it than the average person but what you say is a lie. Christianity is declining in the West and only in the West because we have lost our identity and have preferred that the most monstrous people in the history of the earth define our identity for us, everywhere else Christianity is thriving. Western nations declining have everything to do with our abandonment of the Faith. As for credibility I personally don’t care to make Christianity “credible” to appease the reprobate of the world. I have to agree with a previous poster, you are either an atheist or a nominal Christian at best.

The scientific community will not tolerate any criticism of the general theory of evolution … that all life on earth evolved from microbes. It is a scientific dogma that cannot be challenged.

The strength of evolution lies in the continuous attempts by the scientific community to refute it. It is not a dogma and is challenged all the time, so far without success.

Yes, this is true but becoming a overtly worldly religion, as the Catholic Church is doing anyway so you should be pleased, isn’t going to solve anything. Western society is sharply declining and will be Balkanized everywhere in a few decades due to a forced multiculturalism. Is this progress? Western Christianity has been watered down to the point where there’s almost nothing of value left, while other Christian societies in the world are thriving. Why is that?