Only if you promise to open your mind to the fantasy and magic that evolutionary biology depends on …
The mechanism by which most evolution comes about just isn’t that complicated. Mutation occurs. Is it beneficial? If so, the fitness of the creature is enhanced and so is it’s reproductive output.
Not static at all. The biosphere is extremely dynamic. If I remember correctly, something like 90% of all species presently on the planet are less than 200 thousand years old - this on a planet life has occupied for roughly 3.5 billion years.
Well, you’d certainly not take a place among credible academia…
Just the opposite, actually. It’s not a worldview. Just an explanation of how life in the present came to be.
Not only are the genetics and the nature of the phenotype, on top of the biochemistry that leads to that structure, explainable from a creationist perspective, but so too is the very existence of the orchid as itself as a member of the kind of being it is, as well as its objective beauty. This is not to mention any primitive psychological perceptual and other psychological aspects that are inherent in its cellular organization.
Fair. So if orchids date to 100 million years ago, where were they 200 million years ago?Vonsalza:
Not only are the genetics and the nature of the phenotype, on top of the biochemistry that leads to that structure, explainable from a creationist perspective, but so too is the very existence of the orchid as itself as a member of the kind of being it is, as well as its objective beauty. This is not to mention any primitive psychological perceptual and other psychological aspects that are inherent in its cellular organization.
Snicker if you will, but I find the disregard for reality to be rather sad.
In ancient times, humans worshipped idols and false gods made of stone and wood (or gold, for the well-heeled). In these more enlightened times, humans worship the idols and false gods of ideas contructed from their own intellgence - such as science and evolutionary biology. Dissenters are dealt with by branding them as “science haters” and “religious fanatics” who deserve banishment to the “lunatic fringe”. However, in every generation, God ensures there exists a remnant of truth-bearers who are immune to refuse to conform to the “doctrines of demons”.
… which is not only grossly inadequate junk-science, but is completely useless in any practical sense. Which begs the question: How and why did it become totalitarian dogma in the scientific community?
Because it’s the greatest and best explanation that doesn’t require some sort of magic, divinity or other irrational agent.Vonsalza:
… which is not only grossly inadequate junk-science, but is completely useless in any practical sense. Which begs the question: How and why did it become totalitarian dogma in the scientific community?
It is a story that is so full of magic and irrational holes that only an atheist or the naive and gullible would take seriously.
Evolutionists don’t explicitly invoke magic or other supernatural forces in order to make their case, unlike the IDers that explicitly require it.Vonsalza:
It is a story that is so full of magic and irrational holes that only an atheist or the naive and gullible would take seriously.
In the real world, if it gets too hot/cold-wet\dry things die, there is no super offspring to save the day.
Exactly, “Natural Selection”…such a vague term.
Nothing like that happens in the real world, things live or they die… that’s it.
I guess you’ve ignored the moths and crayfish that Rossum has been gracious enough to credibly cite?Vonsalza:
Nothing like that happen in the real world, things live or they die… that’s it.
The vague and simplistic character if evolutionary biology stems from the a priori conclusion that evolution MUST have happened, since there is no God and no Creator. Having convinced oneself that evolution must have happened, there is no real need for a water-tight scientific theory to vindicate that belief. That’s why a junk theory with enough holes in it to sink a battleship passes muster and is accepted by many scientists. It’s rubbish, but it’s the best story puny science can offer.
The vague and simplistic character if evolutionary biology stems from the a priori conclusion that evolution MUST have happened, since there is no God and no Creator. Having convinced oneself that evolution must have happened, there is no real need for a water-tight scientific theory to vindicate that belief. That’s why a junk theory with enough holes in it to sink a battleship passes muster and is accepted by many scientists. It’s fantasic rubbish, but it’s the best “explanation” puny humans can come up with.
Not at all. It stems from the fact that virtually all the stuff in the rocks doesn’t exist any more and the stuff that exists is virtually absent from the rocks.
The offspring is still a crayfish and a moth.Techno2000:
I guess you’ve ignored the moths and crayfish that Rossum has been gracious enough to credibly cite?Vonsalza:
Nothing like that happen in the real world, things live or they die… that’s it.