oldmanintheskydidntdoit
Posts: 4999
Joined: July 2006
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Joseph,
Was it before or after h.pesoj posted back to you your own comments that you worked *it* out?
And Joseph. It's amusing how you responded to something you yourself wrote that h.pesoj was just quoting verbatim
http://www.opposingviews.com/comments/you-use-depends | Quote | Geez PvM your position that everything comes down to sheer dumb luck is totally vacuous. It cannot be tested. It relies solely on circumstantial evidence which is guided by your predisposition to reject design a priori.
BTW everything in your position is beyond observation. Universal common descent- never observed, not even in the fossil record. Mutations accumulating to give rise to novel structures with novel functions- never observed.
IOW there isn't a shred of science in your position. |
And you never did respond to Jeffrey Shallit, as h.pesoj pointed out.
Information bait and switch
Jeffrey Shallit said (quoting Joe)...
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So tell me Jeffrey how can we test the premise that humans evolved from chimp-like knuckle-walkers via an accumulation of genetic accidents?
Exactly the same way we test any historical claim. We look at the evidence, and we see what hypotheses are most consistent with the evidence.
In this case we have a mountain of paleontological data showing a progression of creatures from ape-like creatures to hominids, and we have a mountain of evidence that well-known genetic mechanisms such as mutation, selection, and recombination can produce such changes.
If you want a comprehensive, step-by-step account, you're not going to get it in the near future, since our knowledge of the past is so fragmentary. But so what? I could just as well point to a single oxygen molecule in my room and demand that you explain how it got to that precise position. Despite the fact that we have a good knowledge of physics, no physicist in the world can retrodict the path of the oxygen molecule to say where it was yesterday. That doesn't mean that our theories about gases are suspect.
By the way, your claim about "accumulation of genetic accidents" is stupid, since it doesn't take into account the positive force of selection |
No response to that on UD or on that thread. Oh why ever not Joe?
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!
You want to debate? Still here. Where did you go?
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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
FTK
if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand
Gordon Mullings
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