didymos
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Continuing my habit of posting about DI junk with nanometer-thin "it's on topic" justifications, I wonder how long before this Simmons guy gets invited to write for UD:
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A design must be considered improbable if it is highly functional and durable yet too complex to have come about spontaneously or by intermediate steps. Think of the subway system in any large metropolitan area. Could the combination of tracks, stations, tunnels, signs, vending machines, stairwells, lighting, trains, billboards, ticket booths, turnstiles, benches, platforms, security measures, and restrooms have happened all at once or did it come about by stages? If these commuter systems were to follow the tenets of the theory of evolution, the tracks going off in every direction might be called links to the stations called species. How does one get from station to station without the tunnel, train, and tracks? In the theory of evolution, these kinds of intermediaries are abundantly missing. |
Umm, sorry man, subway-ex-nihilo didn't happen either. Or is that your point? You're not really making sense, so I'll assume you subscribe to the subway-all-at-once model. Well, any given one was built in stages, and has been continuously maintained, altered, extended and upgraded ever since, with no end in sight. You can find traces of the old system in the new by way of old engineering compromises carried over, tunnels sealed over, et cetera. But, you're an ID hack and thus congenitally incapable of producing good analogies, so I'll cut you a little slack. One thing that definitely doesn't evolve, in any sense of the word: your crap "no transistional forms" argument.
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The wombat has an upside-down pouch. Scientists presume, and it makes sense, that position prevents dirt from entering the pouch when the wombat is digging in the ground. Could there have been transitional species with pouches situated sideways, or did the first wombats have to scoop dirt out of their pouches every day? |
Did you just make that up? So, what design criterion dictated giving Koalas a rear facing pouch? It's really not that hard: regulatory genes control development. Genes can change. Small changes in regulatory genes can have large effects on morphology. In the wombat's case, a rearward pouch is advantageous in its burrowing lifestyle and thus visible to natural selection. Plus you neglect the possibility that forward-facing pouches are the innovation in diprotodonts, and not the reverse. Are the details known? No. Does this matter? Not really. Are you an IDiot? Yes.
He's one of the jackasses they sent over to Spain to shill for ID, and they've discussed him and his book on UD before, so I might actually be in the millimeter-thin range:
Dr. Geoff Simmons vs PZ Myers Debate
Medical Doctor writes new pro-ID book for grade-school kids
PSSI Takes the Debate to Spain, Darwinists React With Lies
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I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moron
Again "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio
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