JohnW
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NickMatzke_UD
October 26, 2015 at 10:00 am
Mapou writes:
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October 25, 2015 at 9:21 pm
VJT:
Re common design vs. common descent: I believe in both. They complement each other. However, common design alone cannot explain why we find switched-off genes coding for the production of egg yolks in human DNA. Only the hypothesis that humans are descended from an eggg-laying ancestor can explain that.
Why is that? Why could not a designer simply switch off an unneeded gene that is part of an existing (pre-designed) organism or genome? But then again, maybe early humans used to lay eggs. Maybe early humans were originally designed as egg-laying hermaphrodites. There is evidence in the book of Genesis and other ancient mythological stories for this. |
Adam and Eve laid eggs! You heard it here first, folks! |
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Oh I see, instead of having egg-laying ancestors we might have had...egg-laying ancestors. But we'll change it so it was humans, not all placentals as the evidence actually indicates. Because, well, we're not willing to look at the evidence, just blather around it long enough to forget what the evidence shows.
And the plural of mouse in English just shows that "mice" was the plural in the past, too, and not evolution. Ha, it's just stasis, from "mice" to yolk genes, and you think it indicates evolution. Doesn't if you don't let it, anyhow.
Glen Davidson |
He's doubled down:
| Quote | You’re clueless, Matzke. You have no clue what the words Adam and Eve mean other than what you learned in Sunday school from some fundamentalist preacher. The Adam and Eve story in the garden of Eden is purely metaphorical.
Adam or rather, “the Adam”, as the original Hebrew has it, means mankind. Yahweh Elohim first created the Adam in their image and made them male and female (not men and women, as most people believe) and told them to go forth and multiply. My interpretation is that the first humans were hermaphrodites and could self reproduce. Then Yahweh decided that this was not a good idea because the Adam were lonely even after spending a long time classifying all the animals that existed at the time. So he changed them and separated them into two groups, men and women. It is not farfetched to suppose that, in the beginning, the Adam were designed to procreate via egg laying. After all, this is not unheard of among mammals. If you are Yahweh and you have great genetic engineering resources at your disposition, this is perfectly plausible. |
I know Postrado is the front runner for the next Nobel Prize for Silly, but Mapou's putting in a strong challenge.
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