Is Darwin's Theory Of Evolution True? Part Two

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Cipher? Get a copy of Chiffriermaschinen und Entzifferungsgeräte im Zweiten Weltkrieg by Michael Pröse. The human genome is magnitudes beyond any human-made cipher.
 
It depends on what you’re talking about. Obviously, big changes take more time. People already have natural variations in skin color, so skin color changes can take a lot less time-- I’d argue just a few generations in extreme circumstances, but some evolutionists might disagree with that.

This is different than evolving a more complex brain, the ability to comfortably walk on two feet, etc.
 
He did, right at the start. Ir is macro-evolution that is the issue by blind unguided chance.
 
Supposedly, but it randomly spits out variants and while many die, a few live. Life is meaningless. Like bacteria.
 
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I’m not exactly sure what you’re talking about, to be honest. But let me say, I don’t think either atheist scientists or religious ones believe in “unguided chance.” Most scientists are hard determinists, which means for any moment in time, there can only be one turnout in the next moment. This is compatible with the idea that God can see all of Creation, over all time, i.e. there’s no real chance.

Take for example a very simple moment of chance: a coinflip. If you know the exact weight distribution and forces on a coin when it’s flipped, you could predict with 100% certainty how it would land. However, since we can’ normally know these things.

Actually, loaded dice are a pretty good analogy to evolution. Loaded dice won’t come up double-sixes or whatever all the time, but they have an increased chance to come up that way. But over time, a guy with loaded dice will eventually have 100% of your money.
 
There are quite a few other things Catholic education has supported too. Many are immoral.
 
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It depends on what you’re talking about. Obviously, big changes take more time. People already have natural variations in skin color, so skin color changes can take a lot less time-- I’d argue just a few generations in extreme circumstances, but some evolutionists might disagree with that.

This is different than evolving a more complex brain, the ability to comfortably walk on two feet, etc.
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I’m a white male, if I have offspring with a Black woman, the children will be brown…that’s not evolution.
 
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Apparently, they do. However, I suggest anybody look at the wide range of variation in current human cranial shapes. And ‘evolutionary psychology’ takes us off the hook for our actions. Nobody made us, we’re just biological robots.
 
No, that is not evolution. You are correct. I was trying to give an example in which offspring can be more variable, so you can see how the environment might affect individual members’ chances to be healthy or to reproduce.

Evolution would result over many generations, as “chance” events caused, for a variety of reasons, darker-skinned people to reproduce more successfully than lighter-skinned people.

There are, however, a lot of other factors involved. Among modern humans, money is much much more important for survival than skin color is. So are intelligence, education, and location of resources. So is culture.
 
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When we say things evolve in humans, it means that we see changes in the average traits of humans over time. It doesn’t mean that brains decide they will be smarter and just change on their own.
 
We’re machines.

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Evolutionary psychology and the brain - PubMed

The human brain is a set of computational machines, each of which was designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. These machines are adaptive specializations: systems equipped with design features that are organized such that they solve an...
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A machine is a physical system with a function or purpose. Obviously, parts of the brain have different functions, as do all the other parts of the body. I’m not sure what your problem is with seeing people in this way.
 
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I’m sure atheists love this sort of thing. As a Catholic, I am composed of two parts: a physical body and a soul. I will face my Creator and Redeemer at the last judgement. I have a relationship with Him, as should all. I will have to give an account of all I did.
 
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Then as man spread into northern Europe, etc. he began loosing the need for such dark skin, and so the skin became light.
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I thought evolution was supposed to take millions of years.
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It does. It took millions of years to lose the dark skin.
 
No, there haven’t been men for millions of years, even according to science.

As I said before, it depends how radical a change is required how long it takes. Changing skin color is pretty minor. Adapting from land living to water living (like whales) takes much much longer.
 
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