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Author Topic:   Your reason for accepting evolution
nator
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Message 106 of 111 (433379)
11-11-2007 4:07 PM
Reply to: Message 40 by Beretta
11-05-2007 3:59 AM


Re: evidence and assertions
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There are lots of geologists living right now that see the rocks all the time and refute evolution.
Like who?
quote:
A banana appears to be grossly underprotected compared to its relative the tiger.Also the banana appears to be so well designed for eating -its shape, it's easy open skin -so many improbabilites compared to the assertion that it was designed with a plan - so that we could eat it.
What a stupid argument.
The bananas you get at the store are bred by humans to be like that.
This is a wild banana:
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nator
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Message 107 of 111 (433382)
11-11-2007 4:15 PM
Reply to: Message 63 by Beretta
11-06-2007 8:08 AM


Re: The Banana that Wouldn't Die
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I still want to know what the banana evolved from and how we can be sure it evolved at all.Is evolution a presupposition or is it a proven fact?
Beretta, do you think that the DNA-based paternity tests used by the courts are valid?

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nator
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Message 108 of 111 (433383)
11-11-2007 4:19 PM
Reply to: Message 66 by Beretta
11-06-2007 8:25 AM


Re: evidence and assertions
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All I will get is lots of imaginative stories about how this evolution happened with evolution assumed a priori.
Beretta, do you believe that hundreds of thousands of Biologists over the last 100 or so years have all been morons?
Have they all been so completely incompertent at actually doing science that they've never noticed that the very foundational theory underpinning their entire field is fatally flawed?
Add Geneticists to that group for the last 50 years or so.

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Dr Jack
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Message 109 of 111 (433384)
11-11-2007 4:20 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by Beretta
11-06-2007 7:12 AM


Re: evidence and assertions
You know bananas aren't natural, right? They're selectively chosen by us. Wild bananas just aren't like the things you find in the shops.
Just like pretty much everything else we eat.

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Message 110 of 111 (433386)
11-11-2007 4:26 PM
Reply to: Message 40 by Beretta
11-05-2007 3:59 AM


Re: evidence and assertions
Also the banana appears to be so well designed for eating -its shape, it's easy open skin -so many improbabilites compared to the assertion that it was designed with a plan - so that we could eat it.
And don't forget noses. Consider how improbable it is for noses to be placed exactly in the right place to hold up our glasses unless that was exactly what they were designed for!

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. -- Rick Perlstein

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Message 111 of 111 (433389)
11-11-2007 4:46 PM


Closing this one down
Hi Folks!
There's been a lot of difficulty staying on topic, so I'm closing this thread down. This is my fault, I shouldn't have promoted this thread in the first place. It's impossible to see a reason for accepting evolution expressed without challenging it.
If you'd like to discuss any of the topics that have come up here, please propose new threads at [forum=-25].

--Percy
EvC Forum Director

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