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Bolder-dash Member (Idle past 3630 days) Posts: 983 From: China Joined:
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I believe one of the biggest failures of the evolution camp is their inability to elucidate any plausible chain of events that leads to a new novel feature, which can be seen in modern animals.
The theory about how new novel features have arisen, such as eyes, or noses, or internal organs, always are explained as taking thousands, millions of years, and thus are not easy to see. But in order for this to make sense, you need to propose a realistic scenario of how this can occur. I think your side severely lacks the ability to do so. All of the arguments against irreducible complexity propose suggesting that any new novel feature which appears irreducibly complex, could easily have had another usage in an earlier time. So all these features were at one time some other useful feature. But at some point you can't always use the excuse that it was something else, at some point you must be able to say what an original use was, before it was adapted from some other use. What was a nose before it was a nose? How did it start. How did a hand start? If you say that it was a useless mutation, that eventually gained usefulness and then caused an increase in survivability, I think it is incumbent on your side to give a example, a reasonable pathway. Everyone of these mutations that started out as harmless defects can't have only happened in the past. If this is the pathway to all animal features, the mutations must be continuing today. What are some plausible examples of how this could happen in modern animals, starting from scratch? Edited by Admin, : Change title from "Plausible Examples" to "The Origin of Novelty".
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Admin Director Posts: 12998 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
Thread copied here from the The Origin of Novelty thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2477 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined:
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Bolder-dash writes: What are some plausible examples of how this could happen in modern animals, starting from scratch? The useless skin "webs" that some mutant humans have between their toes could be seen as a plausible example of a potential first step towards the webbed feet of semi-aquatic animals, if that's the kind of thing you mean.
Bolder-dash writes: I believe one of the biggest failures of the evolution camp is their inability to elucidate any plausible chain of events that leads to a new novel feature, which can be seen in modern animals. The theory about how new novel features have arisen, such as eyes, or noses, or internal organs, always are explained as taking thousands, millions of years, and thus are not easy to see. But in order for this to make sense, you need to propose a realistic scenario of how this can occur. I think your side severely lacks the ability to do so. I like your use of the words "plausible" and "realistic". Don't you agree that any hypothetical scenario involving demonstrably real processes, like mutation and selection, easily meets the plausibility standards of those who believe that the source of animal features is magic?
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1024 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
I'm not sure exactly what you want us to produce. You mentioned, for example, the eye, but plausible hypotheticals for the evolution of eyes from scratch have been proposed innumerable times, and obviously these aren't good enough for you. All that you need to begin with is a cell which does something in response to light exposure. Lots of chemical reactions happen in response to light, so it's not difficult to imagine this appearing, either by pure accident or as a side effect of a cell specialised to do something else. Where do you see the problem in the standard hypothetical accounts of the evolution of eyes?
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Bolder-dash Member (Idle past 3630 days) Posts: 983 From: China Joined: |
Ok, so, webbed feet, let's start off simple.
So, what kind of semi-aquatic creatures do you have in mind, that were descended from a species of animal with no skin between their toes? Do you imagine that there were mutations of excess skin in all sorts of parts of their body, like say their scrotum, or forehead, and that the ones with the excess skin in the fingers got a head start? Are you at all concerned that if those who don't believe in evolution see that the only example you can imagine is a mutation for webbed feet to explain how web feet came into being, that they will be even more skeptical that your side has ever really thought about this problem?
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Is this going to be one of those threads where a creationist has the evolutionists try to prove evolution to them while they do everything they can to avoid accepting it? One where no amount of evidence is ever going to matter and its just a game for you by having a bunch of people taking shots that you get to waste our time defending yourself against? Because if it is, then I don't want to play. But lets see.
Here's a picture showing various possible stages of the evolution of the eye:
Light sensitive cells can help primitive species avoid danger and move towards food, obvious advantages. The other various developments build on those and make them more advantageous. What kinds of things would you like to learn about that?
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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One of the best understood evolutionary pathways is the eye. The website for Encyclopedia Britannica has a very nice graphic showing various stages in the process, including an example of a currently living organism for each stage.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
You beat me to it, but mine has specific, extant examples, so there.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
You beat me to it, but mine has specific, extant examples, so there. Ha! That was the other picture I was considering linking to. And I chose the one I did because it was more general.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Well, since he was talking about specific examples, I figured I'd try to head that one off right at the start. Now he can't claim we're just making stuff up, unless he just ignores the evidence.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Bolder-dash Member (Idle past 3630 days) Posts: 983 From: China Joined: |
Ok, the good old eye, now we are getting somewhere (I will try to ignore that you all seem to have not really thought about the problem yourself, but are just going to rely on things you have read or seen printed online).
But let's look at this more seriously than the sort of canned explanation that is popular amongst evolutionists. Ok, so we start with a mutation for a light sensitive skin patch. Have you ever seen or heard of any modern animals getting mutations for light sensitive skin patches? If you have, do these like sensitive mutations occur in any part of the body? And do these light sensitive skin patch mutations get passed on hereditarily like in the adult species? For instance, if an animal got a light sensitive skin patch on its shin, would this then be passed on to its offspring, also in the shin? Would it have a similar size and shape? Because these are the bare minimum requirements it would seem we would need to get started right? Edited by Bolder-dash, : No reason given.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1254 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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Ok, so this is going to be a thread where you ask for examples of evolutionary pathways, we give them and you ask for more detail between each step. Goalpost moving 101, standard creo play, nothing interesting here.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Admin Director Posts: 12998 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
I'd like to request that the evolutionists treat this inquiry seriously and not try to pigeonhole it into what in their view were past insincere attempts.
Evolutionists must concede that they have no direct evidence of the origin of novelty. What they have is evidence that evolution produces diversity and adaptation, and from this they infer how evolution might produce novelty. The problem I think being posed is how close evolutionists can come to providing direct evidence of evolution producing novelty by using examples. The strongest examples would include evidence consistent with blind evolutionary processes as opposed to purposeful design.
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Bolder-dash Member (Idle past 3630 days) Posts: 983 From: China Joined: |
subbie,
Read the first sentence, I said elucidate a plausible chain of events. (BTW elucidate means to make clear. ) Now, just posting a bunch of photos of a shallow eye, and then a deeper eye, and then suddenly a liquid filled eye, is not even closer to actually contemplating the problem, or explaining a chain of events that makes sense. But what are you worried about anyway. This is a good chance for your side to really make your case. You can show that you have actually thought about the problem-not just swallowed a bunch of half diluted kool-aid. First you have a small eye, then a bigger eye, then a bigger eye-I mean come on, exactly how intellectually lazy is your side anyway?
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 284 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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How did a hand start? That is a question which must give us paws.
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