Soapy Sam
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AdapaNovember 13, 2014 at 2:18 pm
Joe | Quote | | Unguided, gradual evolution posits incremental step-by-step processes to produce the diversity of life and its diversity of intricate systems and subsystems. In the absence of those steps there needs to be probabilities that the steps can occur and in the sequence required. And in the absence of that all you have is a glossy narrative that rivals Shakespeare but doesn’t belong in science. |
Creationists are notorious for coming up with really stupid ideas but demanding that science provide a numerical probability and specific steps for evolutionary changes that happened hundreds of millions of years ago has to be among the dumbest. We have ample physical evidence that the events did indeed occur and the mechanisms that caused them. That makes the probability of occurrence 1.0.
Can you imaging demanding that a geologist provide the exact probability calculations and day by day height measurements for the formation of the Alps or else mountain building by plate tectonics is falsified? That’s exactly how stupid this latest demand is.
IDers are the only ones whose argument relies on the precise calculations of unknowable probabilities. Yet another reason they are laughed at by established science. |
something tells me adapa isn't long for that board.
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The ID alternative to unguided evolution, guided evolution must be the most contrived and convoluted concept ever concocted.
What it entails is that life on the planet are under continuous supervision to determine when a biotope needs fixing to ensure that some species adapt - and 'evolve' while other species are tagged for extinction in dynamic, ever changing environments.
IDiots are ignorant about the intricaties of the biosphere and have a primitive, naive belief that some unidentifiable "designer" is running the show like a scaled up Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Ours is not just a planet with life on it, planet and life are intimate companions and dance partners on their journey through time.
And it is complicated, far beyond the imagination of any IDiot. |
He needs particularly elaborate strategies in the case of generating particular recombinational events. Marriage is made in heaven, I guess, but the subsequent location of crossovers ... ?
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SoapySam is a pathetic asswiper. Joe G
BTW, when you make little jabs like “I thought basic logic was one thing UDers could handle,” you come off looking especially silly when you turn out to be wrong. - Barry Arrington
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