Glen Davidson
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Joined: May 2006
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| Quote | | If two species share similar genes then they must share a common ancestor, from which those genes originated. |
Really. So if BT genes are found in corn, do we insist that corn and bacillus thuringiensis share a common ancestor (that is, after those genes arose)?
Thought not, vicious liar. What we insist upon is that a meaningful cause exist for it. "God," "magic," what-not, hardly qualifying for science.
| Quote | | Evolutionists don’t think twice about this metaphysical claim. |
It isn't a metaphysical claim, it's one based upon cause and effect, genetic processes explaining the distribution of genes (no, morally bankrupt jackass, the "exceptions" aren't explained ad hoc, they're explained by known processes, such as gene transfers in (primarily) prokaryotes), design and purpose only working as causes for certain genes that we've deliberately introduced.
But no one really thinks twice about accepting that "metaphysical claim" contingent upon the apparent limits of our world, including fuckwit creationists like Corny, until it starts stepping upon religious toes (and the occasional crank with uncertain, but real, tendencies toward woo, like Berlinski). Then the hatred of the very basics of science, such as the pattern recognition that is behind evolutionary science (by the way, not actually fitting Popperian standards--which is why many philosophers won't accept his claims, except as a good rule of thumb for developed sciences) comes out, and witless wonders like Corny insist that science can't be done.
Oh, of course they're selective. Pattern recognition is fine for "microevolution" with undeterminable boundaries for the creationist version, and it's fine for language evolution for many of them ("ad hoc" fixes for all of the "exceptions" are just fine there), they don't actually intend to destroy all sciences. It's just that they have to deny any possibility for science where evolution has the evidence, and there's nothing inherent to stop them from denying all of science.
Glen Davidson
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of coincidence---ID philosophy
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