universalchiro wrote:There is no fossil record of transitional creatures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Idiot.
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universalchiro wrote:There is no fossil record of transitional creatures
Jippd wrote:universalchiro wrote:Haggis_McMutton wrote:universalchiro wrote:The human female ovum (egg) has a shell around it to seal and protect the chromosomes from being fertilized by the wrong kind of creature. There is only one kind of creature on earth that has the proper enzyme to dissolve this shell for fertilization. It's the human male.
It would be possible for an animal of a different type to develop this enzyme due to a defect in their gene code.
Symmetry wrote:universalchiro wrote:There is no fossil record of transitional creatures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Idiot.
Viceroy63 wrote:Jippd wrote:universalchiro wrote:Haggis_McMutton wrote:universalchiro wrote:The human female ovum (egg) has a shell around it to seal and protect the chromosomes from being fertilized by the wrong kind of creature. There is only one kind of creature on earth that has the proper enzyme to dissolve this shell for fertilization. It's the human male.
It would be possible for an animal of a different type to develop this enzyme due to a defect in their gene code.
Actually it is more accurate to say that every Species on the planet has the genes to potentially create the right enzyme for the purpose of impregnating any other species thus creating a kind of hybrid animal. But the genes that can do that are turned off. In each species, only the right genes that can create the right enzymes for the purpose of impregnating it's own kind is turned on. But the codes are written down into every species of the same comparable level of complexity.
We do however see this principle at work in the case of the "Liger." Half Lion and half Tiger, Ligers are born sterile and unable to create other ligers because those genes are turned off. Thus Ligers are born the last of their kind. But the genes that can create the right enzymes for the cross "kind" (I dare not use the word Species here), are apparently turned on or very much similar between Male Lions and female Tigers.
How this is done, men of science still do not have a clue. But the DNA of every Creature is like a parts list that is checked off. Yes to this one and no to that one and yes to the other one and no to that other one still. And on and on it goes down the DNA parts list as each part on the list on each DNA in every cell in every species of animal, is checked on or off for the creation of it's own kind and no other. This is truly the hand of God at work and the power of God to be able to make a species Barren or able to bare children. As it is recorded in the Bible that God opens up the womb or closes it as he desires (Genesis 49:25).
"As thou knowest not what [is] the way of the spirit, [nor] how the bones [do grow] in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all."
-Ecclesiaste 11:5
Scientist are still uncertain as to the actual act of creation in the woman's womb. How do the cells know how to divide and stop dividing and create just the right organs and such. That cells divide is common knowledge but how do they know how to divide to create the complexity of all the organs still remains a mystery to science. But the Holy Bible is very clear on this this point.
"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb."
-Psalm 139:13
crispybits wrote:Well, there is no single definition of species that is universal to all arguments (click for details). Ernst May's definition, used in many textbooks, is "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups". This satisfies everything in your list, including the first 3 points which seem to be your main point of attack on the theory of evolution.
A definition of what a species is doesn't prove evolution, but if you're going to argue for an alternative then we need to crystallise where the difference is. Evolution as a theory has made predictions which have been found to be true as our knowledge of genetics and technology to allow genetic mapping have advanced. For instance, it was found that chimpanzees have 48 chromosones, and humans only have 46. Before we could fully map the genetic codes, there was a strong argument that this showed that we could not be as closely (or at all) related to chimpanzees as evolution predicted, and that evolution had failed as a theory.
With the advent of more advanced techniques, we have found a fused chromosone within the genetic code of humans. We know it's fused because a chromosone will have a certain structure. Without bombarding the thread with images, imagine a chromosone as EGGGAGGGE where the Gs are genetic information, the A is a dominant protein(?), and the Es are end markers which define where the chromosone starts and ends. We've found these in the overall chimpanzee and human genetic code:
Chimp: EGGGAGGGE EGGGAGGGE (two chromosone)
Human: EGGGGGGEEGGGAGGGE (single chromosone)
The existence of the two end markers in the middle of one of our chromosones satisfies the prediction made by evolution, before this fusing was known about. We can even identify where exactly in each genetic code the two relevant chromosones are.
Now, if humans were a separate "kind" to chimpanzees, set in stone and never able to change, then there is no reason anyone has presented (as far as I know, and I'm not claiming extensive knowledge of genetics) why there should be a fused chromosone pair there, when all of our other chromosones are unfused.
When we search for knowledge, we value that knowledge that has the most accurate explanatory and predictive power. As we can see in the example above, and that's just one example amongst many, evolution has not only described how something happened and came to be, but also predicted something that with the advance of technology was later found to be true.
By contrast, the "kinds" argument doesn't describe scientifically how things got the way they are, God just made them that way. It doesn't predict anything except that we'll never see one species splitting into different species over time. But the evidence we're finding is that this prediction is inaccurate, as our knowledge of genetics is finding more and more evidence that this does happen. Yes a lizard splits into two lizards, but you have to remember that we're not talking about creating a brand new species outside of the lizard family, but rather just a new species of lizard. Eventually, as genetic differences accumulate over time, those two branches of the lizard family tree may become so different that some may view them as different "kinds" (like komodo dragons and slow worms for example), but we're not trying to climb back up the tree and come down a different branch, we're simply adding more branches from where we are now.
crispybits wrote:Evolution, as scientifically described, looks like this:
Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
Gillipig wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
You've answered nothing.
Viceroy63 wrote:Gillipig wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
You've answered nothing.
An answer is an answer whether you choose to accept it or not.
waauw wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:Gillipig wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
You've answered nothing.
An answer is an answer whether you choose to accept it or not.
an answer with barely any content
Symmetry wrote:universalchiro wrote:There is no fossil record of transitional creatures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Idiot.
universalchiro wrote:Which means your heritage is descendants from rock. Simply foolishness.
crispybits wrote:Evolution, as scientifically described, looks like this:
Each red circle is a different genus, and between each generation of red circles on this "family tree" there may be thousands or millions of years, and hundreds or thousands of generations. Evolution doesn't predict large viable populations of cross breeds, once a branch down the tree has been taken then it's very unlikely, unless environmental factors revert back to a state they were in for the previous generation exactly, that we will move back up a branch. In that top line of red circles each species cannot interbreed because of the sperm/ova enzymes he describes, and within each of these red circles there can be massive variation of types of species within the genus.
Now what he seems to be describing is that evolution looks like this:
With the new blue lines and green circles representing cross breeds, where two different genuses have interbred and produced the new genuses indicated by the green circles. He says that the failure to find this invalidates the evolutionary theory.
Now either he (and all other creationists that use this tired argument) are due a Nobel prize for disproving one of the fundamental theories of biology, or they are talking complete nonsense and do not understand what evolution actually says (or are wilfully misrepresenting it to fit their own world views). If the argument was sound, then scientists the world over would be making it - the job of scientists is to prove other scientists wrong, and the highest accolades in science go to the scientists who disprove the most fundamental theories we have accepted over time. Give me a list of the 5 most famous scientists, and I'll either show you people who came up with the first groundings for explaining something previously mysterious, or people who took someone else's work and caused a paradigm shift within science to a whole new way of thinking about how the universe worked and proved a previously accepted theory wrong.
Dr Lawrence, I provided a post that detailed the exact problems with your theory as far as genetics go, with scientific facts to back it up, and told you exactly how to counter my argument, but instead of meeting that challenge you just went off on several other tangents about radiometric dating. Now you're back to genetics maybe you could answer it:crispybits wrote:Well, there is no single definition of species that is universal to all arguments (click for details). Ernst May's definition, used in many textbooks, is "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups". This satisfies everything in your list, including the first 3 points which seem to be your main point of attack on the theory of evolution.
A definition of what a species is doesn't prove evolution, but if you're going to argue for an alternative then we need to crystallise where the difference is. Evolution as a theory has made predictions which have been found to be true as our knowledge of genetics and technology to allow genetic mapping have advanced. For instance, it was found that chimpanzees have 48 chromosones, and humans only have 46. Before we could fully map the genetic codes, there was a strong argument that this showed that we could not be as closely (or at all) related to chimpanzees as evolution predicted, and that evolution had failed as a theory.
With the advent of more advanced techniques, we have found a fused chromosone within the genetic code of humans. We know it's fused because a chromosone will have a certain structure. Without bombarding the thread with images, imagine a chromosone as EGGGAGGGE where the Gs are genetic information, the A is a dominant protein(?), and the Es are end markers which define where the chromosone starts and ends. We've found these in the overall chimpanzee and human genetic code:
Chimp: EGGGAGGGE EGGGAGGGE (two chromosone)
Human: EGGGGGGEEGGGAGGGE (single chromosone)
The existence of the two end markers in the middle of one of our chromosones satisfies the prediction made by evolution, before this fusing was known about. We can even identify where exactly in each genetic code the two relevant chromosones are.
Now, if humans were a separate "kind" to chimpanzees, set in stone and never able to change, then there is no reason anyone has presented (as far as I know, and I'm not claiming extensive knowledge of genetics) why there should be a fused chromosone pair there, when all of our other chromosones are unfused.
When we search for knowledge, we value that knowledge that has the most accurate explanatory and predictive power. As we can see in the example above, and that's just one example amongst many, evolution has not only described how something happened and came to be, but also predicted something that with the advance of technology was later found to be true.
By contrast, the "kinds" argument doesn't describe scientifically how things got the way they are, God just made them that way. It doesn't predict anything except that we'll never see one species splitting into different species over time. But the evidence we're finding is that this prediction is inaccurate, as our knowledge of genetics is finding more and more evidence that this does happen. Yes a lizard splits into two lizards, but you have to remember that we're not talking about creating a brand new species outside of the lizard family, but rather just a new species of lizard. Eventually, as genetic differences accumulate over time, those two branches of the lizard family tree may become so different that some may view them as different "kinds" (like komodo dragons and slow worms for example), but we're not trying to climb back up the tree and come down a different branch, we're simply adding more branches from where we are now.
PS where do hyenas sit on the evolutionary tree relative to dogs? They must be like great danes and terriers and stuff right? Another example of variation within a kind?
Viceroy63 wrote:[size=150]OK; If you want content, then here is content...
Notice that the missing link is still missing. No intermediary species; There fore no proof of evolution.
26:40 Lucy and Australopithecus missing links
29:45 Evolution not possible
universalchiro wrote:But with closer inspection, humans have similar strands of genetic coding to many creatures, not just the chimp and not just primates. Why?
universalchiro wrote:So similar strands of genetic coding doesn't demonstrate that we evolved from primates, for then we wouldn't have associated strands of genetic coding with any other creature.
universalchiro wrote:Or a fern having 480 chromosomes for they proceeded humans on the evolutionary tree. Seems more like entropy rather than evolution. [Entropy is LAW that all goes from order to disorder, unless a designed force is applied-- opposite of evolution]
universalchiro wrote:Evolution predicted there would be a fossil record of transitional creatures. They couldn't find any, so they falsified Archeoraptor.
universalchiro wrote:There is ample evidence, and I presented several, that life on earth is not billions of years old, but 1,000's.
Viceroy63 wrote:Gillipig wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:Symmetry wrote:Viceroy63 wrote:A bunch of lines and circles is not even worth the read. Show me the actual pics or video footage of a transitional species if you have indeed found some evidence of that.
I did.
But here it is again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils
Will you ignore it twice?
I did not ignore it. I answered it. Twice now.
You've answered nothing.
An answer is an answer whether you choose to accept it or not.
AndyDufresne wrote:universalchiro wrote:Which means your heritage is descendants from rock. Simply foolishness.
Our heritage is in the stellar centers of stars.
--Andy
Viceroy63 wrote:So let me see if I have this right? It's perfectly reasonable to believe that we came from rocks. Or star stuff?
But that a God created that very same star stuff, well, "That's just plain preposterous!"
If you follow that reasoning to it's logical conclusion then we came from nothing. Because once upon a time there was nothing. Then nothing, exploded???
And they call me stupid.
crispybits wrote:Only when you spout ridiculous straw man arguments like that Viceroy.
Science doesn't say that nothing exploded.
And science also doesn't say that some sort of God type thingamibob didn't make everything - that's still possible - just that your particular bunch of stone age fairy tales is false, along with your delusions about worldwide floods and a 6000 year old human race that started with a guy made from dirt and a woman made from a rib...
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