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"Richard Dawkins" |
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22 Feb 2006 09:58:52 PM |
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Twenty Questions for Evolutionists |
Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
To answer a question satisfactorily, one must first understand facts related
to that question. When you click on the page numbers following each
question, you will be taken to a brief section within the online book, In
the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. There you
will see why knowledgeable evolutionists have great difficulty answering
these questions. If you find evolutionists who feel they or others can
answer these questions, then ask one more question: "Why won't evolutionists
enter a strictly scientific, written debate on the creation-evolution
issue?"; After you read the entire book, the answer will be evident. For
details on this written debate offer, see pages 344-346.
1. Where has macroevolution ever been observed? (See page 6.) What's the
mechanism for getting new complexity, such as new vital organs? (See pages
6-8.) If any of the thousands of vital organs evolved, how could the
organism live before getting the vital organ? (Without a vital organ, the
organism is dead-by definition.) If a reptile's leg evolved into a bird's
wing, wouldn't it become a bad leg long before it became a good wing? How
could metamorphosis evolve? (See page 17.)
2. Do you realize how complex living things are? (See page 13.) How could
organs as complex as the eye, ear, or brain of even a tiny bird ever come
about by chance or natural processes? (See page 8.) How could a bacterial
motor evolve? How could such motors work until all components evolved
completely and were precisely in place? (See page 19.)
3. If macroevolution happened, where are the billions of transitional
fossils that should be there? Billions! Not a handful of questionable
transitions. Why don't we see a reasonably smooth continuum among all living
creatures, or in the fossil record, or both? (See page 11.)
4. Textbooks show an evolutionary tree, but where is its trunk and where are
its branches? For example, what are the evolutionary ancestors of the
insects? (See page 11.)
5. How could the first living cell begin? That's a greater miracle than for
bacteria to evolve into man. How could that first cell reproduce? (See page
14.) Just before life appeared, did the atmosphere have oxygen or did it not
have oxygen? Whichever choice you make creates a terrible problem for
evolution. Both must come into existence at about the same time. (See page
13.)
6. Please point to a strictly natural process that creates information. What
evidence is there that information, such as that in DNA, could ever assemble
itself? What about the 4,000 books' worth of coded information that are in a
tiny part of each of your 100 trillion cells? If astronomers received an
intelligent signal from some distant galaxy, most people would conclude that
it came from an intelligent source. Why then doesn't the vast information
sequence in the DNA molecule of just a bacterium also imply an intelligent
source? (See pages 10 and 15.)
7. Which came first, DNA or the proteins needed by DNA, which can only be
produced by DNA? (See page 15.)
8. How could sexual reproduction evolve? (See page 18.) How could immune
systems evolve? (See page 18.)
9. If it takes intelligence to make an arrowhead, why doesn't it take vastly
more intelligence to create a human? Do you really believe that hydrogen
will turn into people if you wait long enough?
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards? Why do
at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
11. Can you name one reasonable hypothesis on how the moon got there-any
hypothesis that is consistent with all the data? Why aren't students told
the scientific reasons for rejecting all the evolutionary theories for the
moon's origin? What about the other 138+ moons in the solar system? (See
page 26.)
12. Where did matter, space, time, energy, or even the laws of physics come
from? (See page 27.) What about water? (See page 24.)
13. How could stars evolve? (See pages 28-30.)
14. Are you aware of all the unreasonable assumptions and contradictory
evidence used by those who say the earth is billions of years old? (See
pages 34-37 and 264-269.)
15. Why are living bacteria found inside rocks that you say are hundreds of
millions of years old and in meteorites that you say are billions of years
old? Clean-room techniques and great care were used to rule out
contamination. (See page 33.)
16. Did you know that most scientific dating techniques indicate that the
earth, solar system, and universe are young? (See pages 31-37.)
17. Why do so many ancient cultures have flood legends? (See page 45.)
18. Have you heard about the mitochondrial Eve and the genetic Adam?
Scientists know that the mitochondrial Eve was the common female ancestor of
every living person, and she appears to have lived only about 6,000-7,000
years ago. (See pages 261-263.)
19. Careful researchers have found the following inside meteorites: living
bacteria, salt crystals, limestone, water, sugars, terrestrial-like brines,
and earthlike isotopic patterns. Doesn't this implicate Earth as their
source-and a powerful launcher, "the fountains of the great deep?" (See page
249.)
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of the
earth:
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~There are no true atheists in Christian newsgroups.~
~Science is infallible but those hiding behind it are not~
~"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that
it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and
therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark
would be without meaning.~
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| User: "Richard Dawkins" |
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| Title: Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists |
22 Feb 2006 10:00:43 PM |
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"Richard Dawkins" <Dawkins@Hell.com> wrote in message
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Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of
the earth:
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of the
earth:
a.. The Grand Canyon and Other Canyons
b.. Mid-Oceanic Ridge
c.. Continental Shelves and Slopes
d.. Ocean Trenches (See pages 135-155.)
e.. Seamounts and Tablemounts
f.. Earthquakes
g.. Magnetic Variations on the Ocean Floor
h.. Submarine Canyons
i.. Coal and Oil Formations
j.. Methane Hydrates
k.. Ice Age
l.. Frozen Mammoths (See pages 177 -205.)
m.. Major Mountain Ranges
n.. Overthrusts
o.. Volcanoes and Lava
p.. Geothermal Heat
q.. Strata and Layered Fossils (See pages 157-167.)
r.. Metamorphic Rock
s.. Limestone (See pages 169-175.)
t.. Plateaus
u.. Salt Domes
v.. Jigsaw Fit of the Continents
w.. Changing Axis Tilt
x.. Comets (See pages 207-237.)
y.. Asteroids and Meteoroids (See pages 239-256.)
--
~There are no true atheists in Christian newsgroups.~
~Science is infallible but those hiding behind it are not~
~"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out
that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe
and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.
Dark would be without meaning.~
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| User: "Andrew W" |
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23 Feb 2006 01:49:17 AM |
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"Richard Dawkins" <Dawkins@Hell.com> wrote in message
news:XpaLf.49$Qf3.2131@news.uswest.net...
Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
To answer a question satisfactorily, one must first understand facts
related to that question. When you click on the page numbers following
each question, you will be taken to a brief section within the online
book, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood.
There you will see why knowledgeable evolutionists have great difficulty
answering these questions. If you find evolutionists who feel they or
others can answer these questions, then ask one more question: "Why won't
evolutionists enter a strictly scientific, written debate on the
creation-evolution issue?"; After you read the entire book, the answer
will be evident. For details on this written debate offer, see pages
344-346.
1. Where has macroevolution ever been observed? (See page 6.) What's the
mechanism for getting new complexity, such as new vital organs? (See pages
6-8.) If any of the thousands of vital organs evolved, how could the
organism live before getting the vital organ? (Without a vital organ, the
organism is dead-by definition.) If a reptile's leg evolved into a bird's
wing, wouldn't it become a bad leg long before it became a good wing? How
could metamorphosis evolve? (See page 17.)
2. Do you realize how complex living things are? (See page 13.) How could
organs as complex as the eye, ear, or brain of even a tiny bird ever come
about by chance or natural processes? (See page 8.) How could a bacterial
motor evolve? How could such motors work until all components evolved
completely and were precisely in place? (See page 19.)
3. If macroevolution happened, where are the billions of transitional
fossils that should be there? Billions! Not a handful of questionable
transitions. Why don't we see a reasonably smooth continuum among all
living creatures, or in the fossil record, or both? (See page 11.)
4. Textbooks show an evolutionary tree, but where is its trunk and where
are its branches? For example, what are the evolutionary ancestors of the
insects? (See page 11.)
5. How could the first living cell begin? That's a greater miracle than
for bacteria to evolve into man. How could that first cell reproduce? (See
page 14.) Just before life appeared, did the atmosphere have oxygen or did
it not have oxygen? Whichever choice you make creates a terrible problem
for evolution. Both must come into existence at about the same time. (See
page 13.)
6. Please point to a strictly natural process that creates information.
What evidence is there that information, such as that in DNA, could ever
assemble itself? What about the 4,000 books' worth of coded information
that are in a tiny part of each of your 100 trillion cells? If astronomers
received an intelligent signal from some distant galaxy, most people would
conclude that it came from an intelligent source. Why then doesn't the
vast information sequence in the DNA molecule of just a bacterium also
imply an intelligent source? (See pages 10 and 15.)
7. Which came first, DNA or the proteins needed by DNA, which can only be
produced by DNA? (See page 15.)
8. How could sexual reproduction evolve? (See page 18.) How could immune
systems evolve? (See page 18.)
9. If it takes intelligence to make an arrowhead, why doesn't it take
vastly more intelligence to create a human? Do you really believe that
hydrogen will turn into people if you wait long enough?
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards? Why
do at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
11. Can you name one reasonable hypothesis on how the moon got there-any
hypothesis that is consistent with all the data? Why aren't students told
the scientific reasons for rejecting all the evolutionary theories for the
moon's origin? What about the other 138+ moons in the solar system? (See
page 26.)
12. Where did matter, space, time, energy, or even the laws of physics
come from? (See page 27.) What about water? (See page 24.)
13. How could stars evolve? (See pages 28-30.)
14. Are you aware of all the unreasonable assumptions and contradictory
evidence used by those who say the earth is billions of years old? (See
pages 34-37 and 264-269.)
15. Why are living bacteria found inside rocks that you say are hundreds
of millions of years old and in meteorites that you say are billions of
years old? Clean-room techniques and great care were used to rule out
contamination. (See page 33.)
16. Did you know that most scientific dating techniques indicate that the
earth, solar system, and universe are young? (See pages 31-37.)
17. Why do so many ancient cultures have flood legends? (See page 45.)
18. Have you heard about the mitochondrial Eve and the genetic Adam?
Scientists know that the mitochondrial Eve was the common female ancestor
of every living person, and she appears to have lived only about
6,000-7,000 years ago. (See pages 261-263.)
19. Careful researchers have found the following inside meteorites: living
bacteria, salt crystals, limestone, water, sugars, terrestrial-like
brines, and earthlike isotopic patterns. Doesn't this implicate Earth as
their source-and a powerful launcher, "the fountains of the great deep?"
(See page 249.)
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of
the earth:
--
~There are no true atheists in Christian newsgroups.~
~Science is infallible but those hiding behind it are not~
~"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out
that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe
and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.
Dark would be without meaning.~
The basic upshot of this post and others like it are that for certain people
in this modern day and age, the belief in a God 'person' is still the
default explanation when no other definitively proven explanations are yet
available as to how the universe and life on earth came about.
No doubt there might be complex cosmic creative energy forces in the
universe that we haven't yet discovered, but there's no reason to proclaim
proudly that there's a big invisible magician in space that has similar
attributes to a human just because one book says so.
Why can't you just be honest like the rest of the human race and say "I
don't know"?
--
Andrew W.
Beware of invisible entities that coerce you into a life of worship and
sacrifice.
Beware of any being who offers you a gift in the form of death and
suffering.
Beware of any religion that makes free-mindedness a crime.
Free-mindedness is foolishness to those whose brains are perishing.
Religion Exposed!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner
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| User: "Rod" |
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24 Feb 2006 09:39:49 PM |
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Andrew W wrote:
"Richard Dawkins" <Dawkins@Hell.com> wrote in message
news:XpaLf.49$Qf3.2131@news.uswest.net...
Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
To answer a question satisfactorily, one must first understand facts
related to that question. When you click on the page numbers following
each question, you will be taken to a brief section within the online
book, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood.
There you will see why knowledgeable evolutionists have great difficulty
answering these questions. If you find evolutionists who feel they or
others can answer these questions, then ask one more question: "Why won't
evolutionists enter a strictly scientific, written debate on the
creation-evolution issue?"; After you read the entire book, the answer
will be evident. For details on this written debate offer, see pages
344-346.
1. Where has macroevolution ever been observed? (See page 6.) What's the
mechanism for getting new complexity, such as new vital organs? (See pages
6-8.) If any of the thousands of vital organs evolved, how could the
organism live before getting the vital organ? (Without a vital organ, the
organism is dead-by definition.) If a reptile's leg evolved into a bird's
wing, wouldn't it become a bad leg long before it became a good wing? How
could metamorphosis evolve? (See page 17.)
2. Do you realize how complex living things are? (See page 13.) How could
organs as complex as the eye, ear, or brain of even a tiny bird ever come
about by chance or natural processes? (See page 8.) How could a bacterial
motor evolve? How could such motors work until all components evolved
completely and were precisely in place? (See page 19.)
3. If macroevolution happened, where are the billions of transitional
fossils that should be there? Billions! Not a handful of questionable
transitions. Why don't we see a reasonably smooth continuum among all
living creatures, or in the fossil record, or both? (See page 11.)
4. Textbooks show an evolutionary tree, but where is its trunk and where
are its branches? For example, what are the evolutionary ancestors of the
insects? (See page 11.)
5. How could the first living cell begin? That's a greater miracle than
for bacteria to evolve into man. How could that first cell reproduce? (See
page 14.) Just before life appeared, did the atmosphere have oxygen or did
it not have oxygen? Whichever choice you make creates a terrible problem
for evolution. Both must come into existence at about the same time. (See
page 13.)
6. Please point to a strictly natural process that creates information.
What evidence is there that information, such as that in DNA, could ever
assemble itself? What about the 4,000 books' worth of coded information
that are in a tiny part of each of your 100 trillion cells? If astronomers
received an intelligent signal from some distant galaxy, most people would
conclude that it came from an intelligent source. Why then doesn't the
vast information sequence in the DNA molecule of just a bacterium also
imply an intelligent source? (See pages 10 and 15.)
7. Which came first, DNA or the proteins needed by DNA, which can only be
produced by DNA? (See page 15.)
8. How could sexual reproduction evolve? (See page 18.) How could immune
systems evolve? (See page 18.)
9. If it takes intelligence to make an arrowhead, why doesn't it take
vastly more intelligence to create a human? Do you really believe that
hydrogen will turn into people if you wait long enough?
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards? Why
do at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
11. Can you name one reasonable hypothesis on how the moon got there-any
hypothesis that is consistent with all the data? Why aren't students told
the scientific reasons for rejecting all the evolutionary theories for the
moon's origin? What about the other 138+ moons in the solar system? (See
page 26.)
12. Where did matter, space, time, energy, or even the laws of physics
come from? (See page 27.) What about water? (See page 24.)
13. How could stars evolve? (See pages 28-30.)
14. Are you aware of all the unreasonable assumptions and contradictory
evidence used by those who say the earth is billions of years old? (See
pages 34-37 and 264-269.)
15. Why are living bacteria found inside rocks that you say are hundreds
of millions of years old and in meteorites that you say are billions of
years old? Clean-room techniques and great care were used to rule out
contamination. (See page 33.)
16. Did you know that most scientific dating techniques indicate that the
earth, solar system, and universe are young? (See pages 31-37.)
17. Why do so many ancient cultures have flood legends? (See page 45.)
18. Have you heard about the mitochondrial Eve and the genetic Adam?
Scientists know that the mitochondrial Eve was the common female ancestor
of every living person, and she appears to have lived only about
6,000-7,000 years ago. (See pages 261-263.)
19. Careful researchers have found the following inside meteorites: living
bacteria, salt crystals, limestone, water, sugars, terrestrial-like
brines, and earthlike isotopic patterns. Doesn't this implicate Earth as
their source-and a powerful launcher, "the fountains of the great deep?"
(See page 249.)
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of
the earth:
--
~There are no true atheists in Christian newsgroups.~
~Science is infallible but those hiding behind it are not~
~"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out
that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe
and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.
Dark would be without meaning.~
The basic upshot of this post and others like it are that for certain people
in this modern day and age, the belief in a God 'person' is still the
default explanation when no other definitively proven explanations are yet
available as to how the universe and life on earth came about.
No doubt there might be complex cosmic creative energy forces in the
universe that we haven't yet discovered, but there's no reason to proclaim
proudly that there's a big invisible magician in space that has similar
attributes to a human just because one book says so.
Why can't you just be honest like the rest of the human race and say "I
don't know"?
If you cannot address any one of the questions which are addressed to
non believers, why would any Christian do other than scoff at your
reply, let alone accept any argument you have as valid ?
--
Act 3:11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all
the people ran together
unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
Act 3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of
Israel, why marvel ye at this?
Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or
holiness we had made this man to walk?
Act 3:13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our
fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus;
whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence, of Pilate, when
he was determined to let him go.
Act 3:14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a
murderer to be granted unto you;
Act 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the
dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Act 3:16 And his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man
strong, whom ye see and know:
yea, the faith which is by him, hath given him this perfect soundness in
the presence of you all.
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| User: "Tim K." |
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| Title: Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists |
25 Feb 2006 12:51:39 PM |
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"Rod" <freelance74601@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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If you cannot address any one of the questions which are addressed to
non believers, why would any Christian do other than scoff at your
reply, let alone accept any argument you have as valid ?
If you can't learn to EDIT don't be hurt when people call you a fuckwit.
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| User: "Thurisaz the Einherjer" |
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25 Feb 2006 12:41:02 AM |
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Rod wrote:
If you cannot address any one of the questions which are addressed to
non believers, why would any Christian do other than scoff at your
reply, let alone accept any argument you have as valid ?
"The non-believers" have answered these nonsensical questions a zillion
times before. Regurgiasking them again and again is a surefire sign that
the fundie brat asking them
1. is desperate and
2. has no valid argument whatsoever to present.
It's like that with every fundie/cretinist/IDiot claim there is out there.
They have all been answered (and the implicit "arguments" in them soundly
refuted) countless times. If "the unbelievers" are wrong then the fundie
twits are able to refute these refutations, so to say. The simple fact that
they never even try shows that they have lost already but cannot for the
life of them admit it.
All the "questions" have been answered. Live with it. Asking them again
equals holding up a big sign "I cannot live with the facts". Now if you
_want_ to bear that sign, fine with me - but don't complain about the
consequences.
--
Romans 2:24 revised:
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you
cretinists, as it is written on aig."
Why I am not a christian: http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus/nojebus
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| User: "Tim K." |
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25 Feb 2006 12:52:31 PM |
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"Thurisaz the Einherjer" <MAILTOcommoner@carcosa.de> wrote in message
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Regurgiasking ...
Diet coke through the nose on that one;)
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| User: "Thurisaz the Einherjer" |
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25 Feb 2006 11:56:46 PM |
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Tim K. wrote:
Regurgiasking ...
Diet coke through the nose on that one;)
*scratches one more mark in his keyboard*
;)
--
Romans 2:24 revised:
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you
cretinists, as it is written on aig."
Why I am not a christian: http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus/nojebus
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| User: "Thurisaz the Einherjer" |
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22 Feb 2006 10:41:58 PM |
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I see that dorky still babbles the same bullcrap.
Folks, is there a name yet for this particular form of masochism?
Oh right, of course there is: Fundie brat is a masochRist.
--
Romans 2:24 revised:
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you
cretinists, as it is written on aig."
Why I am not a christian: http://www.carcosa.de/nojebus/nojebus
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| User: "Steven J." |
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23 Feb 2006 01:31:08 AM |
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Richard Dawkins wrote:
Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
To answer a question satisfactorily, one must first understand facts related
to that question. When you click on the page numbers following each
question, you will be taken to a brief section within the online book, In
the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. There you
will see why knowledgeable evolutionists have great difficulty answering
these questions. If you find evolutionists who feel they or others can
answer these questions, then ask one more question: "Why won't evolutionists
enter a strictly scientific, written debate on the creation-evolution
issue?"; After you read the entire book, the answer will be evident. For
details on this written debate offer, see pages 344-346.
1. Where has macroevolution ever been observed? (See page 6.) What's the
mechanism for getting new complexity, such as new vital organs? (See pages
6-8.) If any of the thousands of vital organs evolved, how could the
organism live before getting the vital organ? (Without a vital organ, the
organism is dead-by definition.) If a reptile's leg evolved into a bird's
wing, wouldn't it become a bad leg long before it became a good wing? How
could metamorphosis evolve? (See page 17.)
To take the penultimate question first, bird wings are derived from the
forelimbs (not walking limbs) of bipedal (walking on two legs)
reptiles. Judging from _Archaeopteryx_ (which is skeletally a typical
small theropod dinosaur with extra-long arms), bird wings retained
claws capable of grasping (branches or prey) even after they became
suitable for flight (_Archaeopteryx_'s wing feathers are asymetrical,
like the wing feathers of modern flying birds). Indeed, even the later
and more advanced _Confuciusornis_ has grasping fingers on its wings,
although in other respects it is much more like modern birds than
_Archaeopteryx_ is. So it would seem that the forelimb could function,
over millions of years of evolution, both as a grasping limb and a
flying limb.
There are no examples of fossils with clear feather impressions older
than _Archaeopteryx_, but later feathered dinosaurs show intermediate
stages: feathered limbs too short, and feathers too small, for actual
flight, but which would be useful as display structures, and which
could extend jumps between branches into short (and, as the wings
evolved, longer) glides.
This brings us to the answer to the question, "how could the organism
live before getting the vital organ?" New organs arise as
modifications or elaborations of previous structures, as those
structures are used in new ways for which they are slightly suitable,
and modified by mutation and natural selection to make them better
(and, in turn, to expand the ways in which the modified structures can
be used -- very little modification is needed to create a gliding
surface, but a better gliding surface already makes for at least a
crude wing, which can be further refined).
Note that the first proto-wings weren't "vital organs." They gave the
organism an ability that was useful, but wasn't strictly necessary.
The same point could be made about the first lungs (in fish, which
gained most of their oxygen through gills and used lungs, presumably,
merely to supplement the gills), to hearts (in tiny organisms that
mostly relied on the same muscles for moving through the water and
moving their blood through their body), to eyes (which enabled
organisms that had functioned quite well without vision to perceive
light and darkness, and function a little better).
I am no expert on metamorphosis, but I do know that there are insects
that don't go through metamorphosis, and other insects that go through
partial metamorphosis, and others that go through full metamorphosis.
Again, we are not talking about an all-or-nothing process, but about
incremental modifications that, step by tiny step, can produce major
changes.
This, in turn, brings us to the first question: where has
"macro-evolution" been observed? Now, as biologists define
"macro-evolution" (evolution from one species to another), it has been
observed in the laboratory and the field on several occasions, but this
will doubtless not impress you: "they're still fruit flies, or still
rodents, or still frogs, or whatever." What you (or rather the person
whose questions you copy) has in mind is a complex new structure
arising _de novo_ and "complete." It would be very unDarwinian for
such a thing ever to happen. Even in the (very incomplete) fossil
record, we have many intermediate stages in the evolution of the wing,
or avian bill, or mammalian jaw and inner ear, preserved; these complex
structures arose from incremental modifications of previous structures.
-- [snip]
-- Steven J.
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| User: "VoiceOfReason" |
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| Title: Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists |
25 Feb 2006 09:12:18 AM |
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Richard Dawkins wrote:
Twenty Questions for Evolutionists
1. Where has macroevolution ever been observed?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB901.html
2. Do you realize how complex living things are? (See page 13.) How could
organs as complex as the eye, ear, or brain of even a tiny bird ever come
about by chance or natural processes?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB200.html
3. If macroevolution happened, where are the billions of transitional
fossils that should be there?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC200.html
4. Textbooks show an evolutionary tree, but where is its trunk and where are
its branches?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB822.html
5. How could the first living cell begin?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB010_2.html
6. Please point to a strictly natural process that creates information.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CF/CF003.html
7. Which came first, DNA or the proteins needed by DNA, which can only be
produced by DNA? (See page 15.)
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB015.html
8. How could sexual reproduction evolve? (See page 18.) How could immune
systems evolve? (See page 18.)
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB200_4.html
9. If it takes intelligence to make an arrowhead, why doesn't it take vastly
more intelligence to create a human? Do you really believe that hydrogen
will turn into people if you wait long enough?
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CI/CI131.html
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards? Why do
at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
Why do you think they shouldn't???
11. Can you name one reasonable hypothesis on how the moon got there-any
hypothesis that is consistent with all the data?
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html
12. Where did matter, space, time, energy, or even the laws of physics come
from? (See page 27.) What about water? (See page 24.)
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/relativity/einstein2.html
13. How could stars evolve? (See pages 28-30.)
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_contents.html
14. Are you aware of all the unreasonable assumptions and contradictory
evidence used by those who say the earth is billions of years old?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html
15. Why are living bacteria found inside rocks that you say are hundreds of
millions of years old and in meteorites that you say are billions of years
old?
They're not living.
16. Did you know that most scientific dating techniques indicate that the
earth, solar system, and universe are young?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html
17. Why do so many ancient cultures have flood legends?
Many ancient cultures (and modern cultures) had floods. Duh.
18. Have you heard about the mitochondrial Eve and the genetic Adam?
Scientists know that the mitochondrial Eve was the common female ancestor of
every living person, and she appears to have lived only about 6,000-7,000
years ago.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB621_1.html
19. Careful researchers have found the following inside meteorites: living
bacteria,
Cite?
20. Would you explain the origin of any of the following 25 features of the
earth:
There are buildings that are called libraries. They have lots of
books. Some of them have the word "Geology" on them. Ask the nice
librarian for help.
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| User: "Tim K." |
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| Title: Re: Twenty Questions for Evolutionists |
25 Feb 2006 12:45:42 PM |
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"VoiceOfReason" <papa_fox@cybertown.com> wrote in message
news:1140880338.342217.69450@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards? Why
do
at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
Why do you think they shouldn't???
Do they spin backwards or are they merely upside down...
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| User: "Glenn \Christian Mystic" |
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02 May 2006 01:28:02 PM |
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"Tim K." <timkozz@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qB1Mf.15359$_c.166@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
"VoiceOfReason" <papa_fox@cybertown.com> wrote in message
news:1140880338.342217.69450@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
10. If the solar system evolved, why do three planets spin backwards?
Why do
at least 30 moons revolve backwards? (See page 24.)
Why do you think they shouldn't???
Do they spin backwards or are they merely upside down...
Giggles, thanks :-)
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| User: "Richard Dawkins" |
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22 Feb 2006 10:00:01 PM |
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http://www.creationscience.com/
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