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Author Topic:   J.C.Sanford: Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome
jar
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Message 18 of 55 (393809)
04-07-2007 10:21 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by CTD
04-07-2007 10:01 AM


Primary Axiom is but a Strawman
You quote the Primary Axiom as:
The Primary Axiom is that man is merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection.
This of course is simply a strawman creation which is typical of the Christian Cult of Ignorance Palm the Pea Ploy.
He states it that way merely because he wishes to promote the Christian Cult of Ignorance Mantra of Enlightened Entitlement; that humans are some special critter and so must be the direct creation of some God they created.
By promoting their parody of creator they create a God that is incompetent and a fool, something far smaller than the God that must have created the process of Evolution, and thus a God that Sanford and the Biblical Christian Cult of Ignorance can comfortably control.
It is also a strawman because it creates a false impression of either the variety or magnitude of the two processes mentioned. By tossing in the term "merely" he presents a false and, since he claims to actually be a scientist, lying presentation of what those in the field of studying Evolution actually say.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 32 of 55 (393897)
04-08-2007 10:00 AM
Reply to: Message 29 by CTD
04-08-2007 4:33 AM


So if I say that man is not merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection, you & the rest would not disagree? Fine. Consider it said.
We would then try to explain to you that the statement is silly, sophomoric and incomplete, that the mutational processes are complex as is the filtering of Natural Selection, and that the whole system is a continuing processes. We would try to point out to you that man is not an end point and that modern man is nothing more than one snapshot of one member of a large family of evolving lifeforms.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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