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How do you define the word Evolution?

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Message 751 of 936 (811378)
06-07-2017 3:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 741 by CRR
06-06-2017 5:09 PM

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Why? Because you would have done it that way? I won't reduce God to your level, or mine.
My way is MORE than what you say your Designer would do. How is that "reducing" God?
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06-07-2017 3:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 743 by Dredge
06-07-2017 3:21 AM

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Which is the more sensible approach? ... invent a different system for each one of the millions of species of organisms on earth, or use the same system for each one?
The more sensible approach for a designer with limited means is to copycat. But for a GOD, why would He limit Himself? Why not use His imagination?
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But on the other hand, humans have a long history of borrowing ideas from nature to build stuff. Would humans have ever thought of flight if they hadn't seen birds doing it?
Maybe you can answer my question about the biological zeppelins. What idea did we borrow from nature there?
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06-09-2017 11:49 AM 		Reply to: Message 758 by Dredge
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Dredge writes:
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zepplins
Flight - the idea for which came from birds.
No, the idea for lighter-than-air flight did not come from birds. There are no birds filled with hydrogen. (I was really hoping somebody would give an example of lighter-than-air flight in nature. )
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06-11-2017 2:12 PM 		Reply to: Message 770 by Dredge
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Bubbles are an idea from nature than might inspired flight via balloons. Or maybe even clouds. But this discussion is teetering on the innane.
It's been inane ever since somebody suggested that intelligent design is a rational idea.
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06-28-2017 3:38 PM 		Reply to: Message 792 by 1.61803
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~1.6 writes:
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Lighter than air flight could of been inspired by spiders.
That's pretty cool.
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06-28-2017 3:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 806 by Faith
06-28-2017 10:14 AM

Re: Polyploidy -- evolution by doubling the genome
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I've probed it logically dozens of times....
Is that a typo? Because probing something logically is no guarantee that you're going to get ANY answer, much less the right one.
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07-25-2017 11:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 931 by CRR
07-24-2017 6:36 PM

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How do you define the word Evolution? Reply
How do you define "internal combustion engine"? Can you do it without mentioning God? If you don't mention God, does that make you an atheist?
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