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Posted By Progressive 1 month, 3 weeks ago in ReligionOn the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s masterwork, the author visits Kentucky’s Creation Museum, which has been battling science and reason since 2007. Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark: it’s a breathtakingly literal march through Genesis, without any hint of soul. Plus: Paul Bettany photographs the Creation Museum.
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Georgia501 month, 3 weeks ago
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Did you evolutionists ever get around to naming that fully developed, adult male home sapiens skull found in a European coal vein thought to be millions of years old?
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Or was that just another inconvenient anomaly that is unceremoniously tossed aside in the interest of "real" science?-
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Progressive1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Science has given itself millions of years, eons, to play with, but the righteous have got to get the whole lot in, home and dry, in less than 6,000 years, using just a pitchfork and a loud voice. It’s like playing speed chess against a computer and a thousand people with Nobel Prizes.
But we should cut the creationists a little slack, because every new bit of evidence, every discovery, is a nightmare for them. Take the ark. The big-boat business poses all sorts of questions. But, again, they’ve got answers. There are models and plans and layouts of the vessel. You can walk through a part of the hull. There’s biblical carpentry and weather reports. And the dinosaurs are on board. (They were probably small ones, the museum helpfully adds.) But recently scientists found a new giant rat and a fanged frog in Papua, New Guinea, so now some Noah-ists have to redesign the amphibian quarters. The rats probably sort themselves out. O.K., so you get everybody aboard, 10 million creatures, times two, without the neighbors’ noticing. Where did the water come from? You have to flood the whole world. Did they import water from the Scientologists? No: it came from underground. There is a great reservoir, presumably for flooding purposes, under our feet. I assume that’s where it went back to. Why don’t we drill for it to water Phoenix? (By the way, the flood is where we get fossils from. That’s all the dead stuff, caught in mud.) When the waters abated, the animals got off, stretched, and walked around the world eating one another’s children. I’m not making this up. Nobody’s making this up. This is what happened. -
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djn3nunez31 month, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread528171/p...
......30 years ago. It was posted to the web in 2000. Both those dates precede the completion of the Human Genome Project which established a clear line of genetic homology against the other animals who's genomes we've sequenced. It also confirms earlier physiological homologies that were established in based on the fossil record. That very well would have been a HUGE blow to evolutionary theory - since genetic homology is dependent on descent, whereas physical homologies could have been similar adaptations to similar environments and not necessarily indicative (but very strongly suggestive) of descent. (See: convergent homology)
The rate at which we've observed the mutations can be extrapolated back to our next our closest relative - the chimp - at a divergence about 5.5 mya when the last known gene was exchanged in a single population... though modern man (us) wouldn't appear until about 150,000 years ago. We'll likely know far more (or with far more certainty) when the Neanderthal genome is more fully researched over the next few months.
In the mean time;
Human Genome Project
Homologene database
Neanderthal Genome mapped.
Berkley.edu. Understanding Evolution. Homology.
Out of Africa Theory
Mitochondrial Eve
I don't think Mr. Clark's proposition of Jochmans's paper is going to turn up anything but fakes and fairy stories. -
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Ratskii1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Science is continually progressing and never (or should never) pretends to have all the answers.
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One thing that has been discovered since Darwin's time are RNA on/off switches that can affect specific genes and that allow species to adapt to quickly changing environment. The suppliments the random mutations and explains some changes that take place faster than random mutation would apparently allow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics-
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hyperbola1 month, 3 weeks ago
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Yep. And one of the biggest blows to the "intelligent design" malarkey, which was convincingly demonstrated in court, is the propensity of living systems to "co-opt" already existant "subsystems" to construct something new, e.g. in the court case the "designer" argument that a complex "machine" "must" be evidence of (god's) design was totally refuted by simply showing that various parts of the machine already existed throughout many living systems and were simply re-combined in a new way.
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