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Author Topic:   J.C.Sanford: Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome
Chiroptera
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Message 20 of 55 (393824)
04-07-2007 2:43 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by CTD
04-05-2007 7:40 PM


The Primary Axiom is that man is merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection.
Just a quibble, but this isn't an axiom at all. It is a conclusion that follows from the axioms of the theory of evolution, and these axioms are based on scientific observations.
And even then, this conclusion that humans are the product of evolution has been confirmed by scientific observations.

Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

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Chiroptera
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Message 21 of 55 (393825)
04-07-2007 2:45 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by CTD
04-07-2007 6:03 AM


I would tend to agree.
Um, on what basis do you "tend to agree"? Has the scientific work that you have done confirmed this conclusion? Or are you just saying, "this book confirms the mythological beliefs that I choose to maintain?"

Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

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Chiroptera
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Message 27 of 55 (393835)
04-07-2007 3:49 PM
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04-07-2007 2:56 PM


Hi, Brad.
I think that Sanford is engaging in rhetorical tricks, using the phrase "primary axiom" to imply that evolutionists have a predetermined conclusion that they must then try to prove.

Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

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Chiroptera
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Message 42 of 55 (401590)
05-20-2007 8:35 PM


From the Wikipedia article:
quote:
Formerly an atheist, in the mid-1980s Sanford and his present wife Helen went through a marital crisis, which led him to become a born again Christian and a young earth creationist.
Funny how those two things seem to go together.

Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

  
Chiroptera
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Message 44 of 55 (401598)
05-20-2007 9:27 PM


This is strange.
I also can't find anything on the publisher, Ivan Press. A vanity press, perhaps?
Added by edit:
I just found something: a post at Internet Infidels by someone who noticed the same thing.
Edited by Chiroptera, : No reason given.

Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. -- Charley the Australopithecine

  
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