100 Reasons Why Evolution Is Stupid (Part 1 of 11)

[aggle-rithm]

It isn't. If species didn't evolve they couldn't adapt to changing conditions and would indeed die out. There'd be nothing alive left on Earth by now.

A lot of people don't realize that until complex, multi-celled organisms developed the ability to evolve (came up with a robust enough design that variation would not be fatal), there were no complex, multi-celled organisms. That's why most of the history of life on earth, by far, consists only of single-celled organisms.

It's already been pointed out, but the timescales involved defy imagination.

 

[aggle-rithm]

And after all this, no matter how slow and gradual you like,
a dog never yields anything but another dog, be it Mastiff or Chihuahua.

That's because evolution applies to populations, not individuals.

A population of dogs can evolve, over time, into a population of something other than dogs.

 

[zooterkin]

A lot of people don't realize that until complex, multi-celled organisms developed the ability to evolve (came up with a robust enough design that variation would not be fatal), there were no complex, multi-celled organisms. That's why most of the history of life on earth, by far, consists only of single-celled organisms.

It's already been pointed out, but the timescales involved defy imagination.

Of course, a stumbling block to understanding this is that belief in ID or creationism often goes along with believing that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. It can be very hard to throw away everything you believe in and start from scratch. If you just look at new information a piece at a time, it can be hard to accept the truth, because it doesn't dovetail with all the other wrong things you believe.

 

[aggle-rithm]

Well that can be explained by magic. God did it.

Science, on the other hand, is hard.

A chromoewhatsit did what with a monkey? VS Oh, God did it, cool.

The uncomfortable question for creationists is, "WHY did God do it? Is he trying to trick us?"

 

[Dancing David]

Humans evolved from apes. Humans aren't apes.

Sorry but humans are great apes, yup. It is a name and it applies, we are like the other great apes gorrilas, chimps and orangs and the lesser ape gibbons.

Our arms are made to hang from the under side of branches (brachiation) as oppesed to walking on top of them like monkeys do. (And other traits as well.)

Humans are bipedal apes but we share most of the other traits of other apes.
Yup, yupper, yuppest.

 

[Dancing David]

Yep, really!

In common usage we are still apes.

Just as a penguin is a 'bird'.

 

[Dancing David]

That is EXACTLY what Evolution dictates and believes in great faith. Random chance is accident, even if YOU can't deal with the intellectual absurdity YOU swallow whole.

Some strawmen just never get old, category error and argument from ignorance.

Natural selection is not 'random'.

 

[Dancing David]

Who "selects"?

Anthropomorphize much?

Reproductive success is a what not a who.

 

[Dancing David]

Nonsense. Almost all mutations are a scrambling of information that is counter-productive in result. No mutations add improved information.

Argument from ignorance, strawman, appeal to emotion.

Almost all mutations are neutral, and guess what they are not the ONLY source of variation!

 

[Dancing David]

GOD

DOG

 

[Dancing David]

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[Dancing David]

Call me Ishmael.

Hi Ishmael!

 

[Dancing David]

Maybe someone should request that this thread be mutiliated

or mutated?

 

[Dancing David]

Won't SOMEBODY think of the children?

No, not you, Father O'Malley. And put that away.

Gormless Twonks of the World United to Save the Children!

GTWUSC!

 

[Dancing David]

David henson,

I thried to address some of the points you made about the Big Bang theory.

Do you want to discuss those?

(I know: "Elvis has left the building." )

 

[Toke]

Denmark and Sweden were #2 and #3 (yay! waves the Viking flag.)

Don't forget to wave the Viking flag for Iceland (#1).

Amid the sad statistics it really amuses me that the Scandinavian countries are the only ones with a cross in our flags.

 

[Aitch]

Amid the sad statistics it really amuses me that the Scandinavian countries are the only ones with a cross in our flags.

Well, I suppose that technically the Union Flag doesn't have 'a cross' in it, as it combines the crosses of St George and St Andrew.

 

[Mojo]

Now it is believed that all the matter in the universe started out as being no bigger than a period at the end of this sentence.

Just in case nobody has pointed this out yet, at that point there wouldn't have been any matter, just energy. Matter only started to condense from the energy (E=MC², remember?) as the universe expanded and cooled.

 

[paximperium]

David henson,

I thried to address some of the points you made about the Big Bang theory.

Do you want to discuss those?

(I know: "Elvis has left the building." )

I'd be happy if he actually just presents an actual criticism of the theory of evolution and not Hovind's and the Creatard delusional lies that they call "evolution".

 

[zooterkin]

Well, I suppose that technically the Union Flag doesn't have 'a cross' in it, as it combines the crosses of St George and St Andrew.

... and St Patrick

Do you remember the version without?