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Posted 2007-03-10, 10:08 AM in reply to Draco's post starting "RELIGION IS NOT ABOUT BEING CLOSED..."
Draco said:
RELIGION IS NOT ABOUT BEING CLOSED MINDED!!!!
Why does every one say that?
They keep saying it because all evidence of your posts points to that conclusion. If you don't think this is true, then you are a hypocrite. Choose either to be open-minded (thus accepting that, perhaps, evolution's overwhelming evidence could have a foundation in fact) or choose to accept that religion makes you closed-minded.

Furthermore, the improbability factor in evolution's action is entirely irrelevant. Consider that evolution requires improbability to function (for highly specialized organisations such as wings), why would this be its bane? For the rest, only those parts which, when checked by the actions of nature (living), are sufficiently bred to further generations (to flourish or fade, but, if an organisation is beneficial, it would surely flourish) will continue to emerge and undergo further specialization. Therefore, the tornado comment is a shot in the dark.

Il papa caca nei legno?

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Posted 2007-03-12, 07:46 PM in reply to RoboticSilence's post starting "They keep saying it because all..."
Religion does not make people closed minded, you have only been exposed to the people who are, remember that when you steriotype you make your self even more ignorant.....

I also want you to show me physical proof of evolution, a fosil or something....

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Furthermore, the improbability factor in evolution's action is entirely irrelevant. Consider that evolution requires improbability to function (for highly specialized organisations such as wings),
Have you seen any changes lately that helped the organism, because I haven't... most of the time you see people with an extra something that is removed because it was causing a hinderance(extra weight, un usable, etc.)...

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Posted 2007-03-16, 02:42 AM in reply to RoboticSilence's post starting "They keep saying it because all..."
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You evidently don't understand the difference between adaptation and evolution, that small changes in a cell wall can help a cell to survive like if it has minimal exposure to a drug it could develop a resistance much like when people take medicine for a while their body will eventually require more of it to feel the effects...
Actually, bacteria's increasing resilience to antibiotics is an observation of evolution. It is clearly heritable, making it a consequence of evolution, not a simple adaptation.

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And for those of you that think Autism is a benefit, people with defect cannot survive on their own, think of them like an infant in a grown up body... they require 'parental' watch.....
What is beneficial in society need not coincide with what is genetically or biologically beneficial. What needs to be asked is will an autistic individual have an advantage when it comes to reproduction. Not to my knowledge. However, KA and Grav were talking about something significantly different.

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Religion does not make people closed minded, you have only been exposed to the people who are, remember that when you steriotype you make your self even more ignorant.....
Religion is based on faith. Faith is, of course believing zealously in something in lack of evidence. You could argue that this is not closed-minded. However, zealously believing something which contradicts all evidence is the very definition of dense. Trying to find loopholes around established facts, as you are trying to do in this thread, is quintessential closed-mindedness.

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Have you seen any changes lately that helped the organism, because I haven't... most of the time you see people with an extra something that is removed because it was causing a hinderance(extra weight, un usable, etc.)...
- Bacteria's resilience to antibiotics
- Mutations in humans confer resistance to AIDS
- Mutations in humans confer resistance to heart disease
- mutations in humans makes bones stronger
- Transposons are common, especially in plants, and help to provide beneficial diversity
- Ribozymes
- Adaptation to high and low temperatures in E. Coli
- mutation which allows growth in the dark for Chlamydomonas
- mutation which allows yeast to grow in a Low Phosphate Chemostat Environment
- new enzymatic functions by recombination

I can keep going, but it's impractical. The evidence for beneficial changes are all around.

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1. If you understand the concept of adaptation, then you understand evolution. Evolution is adaptation on a larger scale.
Not really. Adapations need not be heritable.

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I asked for an evolutionary fossil, not just any fossil.... and I have looked, so far all possible fossils have turned out to be fakes....
Where the fuck are you looking? Evidence for Evolution: Jesus Camp part II?

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If you diddent notice by now... you and every one else seems to dodge my question... where is the scientific proof of evolution...
There is no proof of evolution. Proof is not in the realm of science. Proofs happen in mathematics. Science only offers evidence. Evidence and proof are not one and the same. As far as the theory of evolution goes, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence towards it. If you really can't google it, I can briefly outline that evidence for you in another post. Just let me know if that's what you would like me to do.

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you dont see transitional animals walking around
"Transitional" is not very well defined. Biologists do not say that you will find outrageous animals, such as half-dogs, or half-birds. This would pretty much disprove evolution. Evolution states that an organism needs to be genetically well-adapted to its environment in order to survive. Such half-animals would not be so lucky, for the most part.

The mistake I assume you are making here is that you think that transitional animals needs to be incomplete in some way. Well, if that is the case, you could say that human beings are incomplete. What is to say that the eye is not further evolving? It's easy to see that other animals have much better eye-sight than our own. That being known, what makes you think that our eye is not simply in a transitional state. No. Transitional animals are all still complete. That is why they can survive.

You can consider the following "transisional" in the sense that they do not have all the same features and abilities of similar creatures:

- The flying squirrel, which could be on its way to becoming more batlike
- The euglena, which appears well on its way to becoming a plant
- Aquatic snakes
- any animal with an "infrared eye"
- various fish that can survive on land for extended periods of time

Again, it would be impractical for me to list all the examples. Nor could I tell you all the examples.

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and you dont see any evidence in the fossil record
It paints a clear picture of the phylogenetic tree...

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They are one in the same... in a court system evedence is proof that someone has done something, evedence supports the proof...
The interpretation of the courts is highly irrelevant in this discussion. Evidence and proof in the contex of science are simply not the same thing.

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One question... If monkeys evolved into humans... how come we still have monkeys? Shouldent they all heve evolved?
This is another common example of creationist ignorance to evolution. Humans did not descend from monkeys. We share a common ancestor with monkeys.

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DNA would agree... if one has the traits to change they all should....
Negative. Speciation generally occurs on a population. It is hardly ever pandemic. Evolution does not occur due to DNA encoding the change. It occurs through mutations in the DNA. It would occur on an individual level only. If it hapens to be beneficial, natural selection will spread it out through a population.
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Posted 2007-03-16, 08:25 AM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "Actually, bacteria's increasing..."
Brace yourself for ignorant nonsense.

Hah, I was too late because I read MJs post. The ignorant nonsense is above this post.

This debate has reached the point of being pointless(isn't that weird.) MJ's last two posts were absolutely magnificent, I envy your ability to debate like you do MJ. Draco on the other hand is just an ignorant fool.

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Posted 2007-03-16, 08:40 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Brace yourself for ignorant nonsense. ..."
To quote MC Hawking:

Upon blind faith they place reliance,
What we need more of is science.

Draco, take note!
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Posted 2007-03-16, 10:15 AM in reply to Lenny's post starting "To quote MC Hawking: Upon blind..."
Lenny said:
To quote MC Hawking:

Upon blind faith they place reliance,
What we need more of is science.

Draco, take note!
If you do not want to hear what I have to say... just tell me so I dont have to waist time.... but if you are unwilling to look at the facts then you are just lost in the first place...

Science sometimes can disprove itself... science in some cases can contradict itself... you cannot take science at face value, I do believe that scientitst said that we are experiencing "global warming", but diddn't they also say that we are coming out of an Ice Age? Isn't it supposed to warm up?

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Posted 2007-03-16, 10:17 AM in reply to Draco's post starting "If you do not want to hear what I have..."
Hahaha! You can talk!
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Posted 2007-03-16, 12:26 PM in reply to Draco's post starting "If you do not want to hear what I have..."
Draco said:
If you do not want to hear what I have to say... just tell me so I dont have to waist time.... but if you are unwilling to look at the facts then you are just lost in the first place...

Science sometimes can disprove itself... science in some cases can contradict itself... you cannot take science at face value, I do believe that scientitst said that we are experiencing "global warming", but diddn't they also say that we are coming out of an Ice Age? Isn't it supposed to warm up?
Anyone and just about everyone here is willing to hear what you have to say, but if you give us an uninformed and unintelligible opinion, we're going to judge you and everything you say based on that. Present us with intelligent posts and an informed opinion or factual information and we will listen to you. You type and talk like a 12 year old, everything you say is incredibly biased, and any time anyone gives you anything that hints that you might be even slightly wrong, you avoid that and comment on something else(and usually give some more unintelligible bullshit.)


For instance, a few years ago MJordan typed very similar to how you do, and I thought he was an idiot and a moron at the time, but he presents himself as a very intelligent young man, and that's how I see him now. I've got almost 3 years on him and he talks like a professor compared to me.


I feel I must comment on your "unable to look at the facts" statement. The irony of this statement is that you're pretty much just describing yourself. Mjordan presented numerous facts to you and you ignored them.

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Posted 2007-03-16, 11:51 AM in reply to !King_Amazon!'s post starting "Brace yourself for ignorant nonsense. ..."
You and me both. I wish I could debate like that. I think it just takes a little more effort than most are willing to exert is all.
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