Rebuttal To Creationists - "Since We Can't Directly Observe Evolution..."

There we have it - the Texas sharpshooter fallacy.

So according to your mathematical model, how many generations would it take for a population of, say, 100,000 leopards to change from having spots to no spots ?

No probability is less than zero. Study a bit of maths.

You really do know how to put your foot in it, don't you. Try reading this and educate yourself:

And you manage to contradict yourself in 54 words.I'll leave you be - you've dug your own hole here.

Dredge has still not grasped the basics of probability: As has been pointed out to him very clearly, probability cannot be less than zero, and yet still he persists.Kleinman must be so proud to have Dredge on his side.

From your reply to dwise1: From your reply to me (re Dredge): You've just contradicted yourself in two messages, posted within 9 minutes of each other. Gotta be a record.

Your entertainment value has vanished with this.You're a vile human being. My engagement with you is at an end.

Yep - and in Australia, misogyny is one of the main national pastimes, as I understand it.Australia’s above-average sexism highlighted in global report

Indeed. Maths is moulded to describe reality. It doesn't dictate reality.

Indeed. But we know he's a fervent Catholic, so nothing will convince him to drop his delusions. If he did, he'd end up doubting his belief he'll go to heaven when he dies. (Whilst ignoring all the child abuse his church has been covering up for decades).

As a mathematician, you will no doubt be able to give me the odds that every single one of the 216,000 instances of child abuse in the Catholic church in France, which were determined by a 30 month enquiry to have occurred since the 1950s did not, in fact, occur.

Oh I'm not saying it's limited to the Catholic church, Mr Divert-and-Hope-They'll-Go-Away. What I am saying is that for decades the Catholic church lied and covered up the vast numbers of paedophile priests who were sexually abusing children in their churches. They moved the priests to other churches where they set out to abuse thousands more children just to lie and protect the Catholic church's reputation. That reputation was worth more to them than continuing to subject innocent children to the vile horror of paedophilia.So they lied. And lied. And lied again for decades. Despite the Bible's rather clear guidance.on the topic: I detest paedophiles (though, just to correct you, I have been fortunate enough not to have been subjected to it). But I detest just as much a supposedly Christian church which lies in order to protect its reputation, when the cost of those lies is the continued subjection of hundreds of thousands of innocent children to a vile and disgusting crime.

This is an extract from Sattler College's website: Nuff said.

Hi Paul - I found this useful article which states that in 2008, Daniel Styler showed that the earth is bathed in around one trillion times the amount of entropy flux required to support the evolution of complex life. So yes, what you say is correct.It's also a very useful run-through of how the second law of thermodynamics does indeed support the evolution of life - as well as pointing out the simplistic bull which creationists like Kleinman try to peddle.