swbarnes2
Posts: 78 Joined: Mar. 2006
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[quote=Daniel Smith,Oct. 25 2007,20:56] Quote | Now that I re-read it, I can see that you weren't really saying that I supposed there to be "only a single possible evolutionary solution to the problem" (although it came across that way when I first read it). So I misinterpreted. Sorry I'm such a "liar".
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Oh no.
If your behavior on this board had been such that you had demonstrated honesty, others would be much more willing to atribute an occasional wrong step to accident.
But you have chosen to be dishonest on this board time and time again, so you don't get to claims "oops, you all are mean for thinking that my innocent mistake was malicious".
You made your bed here, now you have to lie in it.
Quote | You got me there. I guess I'll have to stick with the prediction until it's proven wrong. |
So you admit you wer telling untruths about your position.
Wonderful. At last, a little progress. Thought if you'd said so at the start, there wouldn't be a whole sub-thread about how stupid/dishonest you are. But that's the way you wanted it, so I suppose you are happy with the outcome.
Your "prediction" has already been proved false. If you do a replica plate of anything onto a hostile medium, you will not get survivors from every colony, as you predict. Even if survival can be gained with only a single point mutation, as oppsoed to a frame-shift, you won't see every single colony containing a survivor.
Quote | I'll admit that my belief in God greatly weighs against any belief in random causes. |
We know that.
Just like a belief in God weighs in for many agaisnt beleiving that the planet is billions of years old.
Or round.
You are no different.
Quote | In fact what I'm actually advocating is Natural Theology - the belief that the study of nature reveals the mind and qualities of God. |
So you believe that the persistant adaptiveness of parasites that kill a hundred thousand children a year reveals...what, exactly about God?
Please, be specific.
Or, you can say nothing, and we'll all understand why.
You want to believe that you are special, and that someone powerful loves you. So you will rationalize that however you can, and if you can pretend that biology provesit, then you are satisfied.
You are starting with the conclusion you want (god is looking out for me), and rationalizing afterwards.
Unfortunately, the evidence doesn't support your cherished desire. You can deal with reality, or you can continue to look like a liar/moron as your pathetic arguments get ripped to shreds.
Quote | I started this journey as a young earth creationist, but I've changed much about what I believe because of the evidence. |
But your core belief, that a Big Sky Daddy loves you and is looking out for you, you won't question. So you keep straining to prove to the rest of us that it's so, when the evidence just doesn't support it.
And again, if you really cared about the evidence, you would have consulted it before you made your stupid predictions. You didn't therefore, you don't.
Quote | I refuse, however, to be an unthinking, uncritical lemming. |
Your ignorance of biology makes it impossible for you to be anything but.
Learn some things, then you can start thinking and criticizing.
Quote | I will not blindly accept a theory for which there is very little in the way of true evidence. |
But you don't know the evidence.
Quote | It presupposes its conclusion. |
No, it doesn't. You say that becuase you wish it were true (because if evolution is false, then your Big Sky Daddy must love you), and because you don't know what the evidence is.
And you will never learn, because you are too busy making up stupid predictions and lying about them later, and announcing that the evidence is all circular, without bothering to know what it is.
I have a question for you...do you think that anyone on this board could honestly lay out what you perceive the evidence against evolution to be? I'm pretty sure lots of people can.
Do you honestly believe that you are capable of explaining what other people on this board believe to be the evidence in favor of evolution?
Because I and everyone else on this board know that you can't, but I'm curious to know if you think so.
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