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Evopeach
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Message 286 of 292 (231613)
08-09-2005 7:03 PM
Reply to: Message 283 by DominionSeraph
08-09-2005 6:54 PM


Re: Talking Points
Hard to follow such a sentence but.... I am not just taking out one thing at a time until the entity is no longer life.
I am saying pick any life form at any point and remove the subsystem ,which will be there, called the carbon atoms... nothing else removed at any point just carbon atoms. You will see utter failure of the system, it will not be made functional by any atomistic substitution at that state or any precursor state defined by evolution as mutation and natural selection, nor will it be able to function at any prior simpler state in a proposed progression in which the carbon atoms are not required nor at the directly previos proposed state which by evolutionary processes results in a functioninf life form not requiring carbon atoms.
That is an an IC systwm and since it cannot be developed at any point along the way by evolution it must be the product of design, ID.
QED

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Message 287 of 292 (231614)
08-09-2005 7:04 PM
Reply to: Message 286 by Evopeach
08-09-2005 7:03 PM


Re: Talking Points
Please post the pertinent sections of Darwin's books that address atomic structure.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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DominionSeraph
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Message 288 of 292 (231622)
08-09-2005 7:15 PM
Reply to: Message 286 by Evopeach
08-09-2005 7:03 PM


Re: Talking Points
Evopeach writes:
I am saying pick any life form at any point and remove the subsystem ,which will be there, called the carbon atoms... nothing else removed at any point just carbon atoms. You will see utter failure of the system, it will not be made functional by any atomistic substitution at that state or any precursor state defined by evolution as mutation and natural selection, nor will it be able to function at any prior simpler state in a proposed progression in which the carbon atoms are not required nor at the directly previos proposed state which by evolutionary processes results in a functioninf life form not requiring carbon atoms.
I know, but that's remarkably inefficient.
You're trying to find the exact straw that breaks the camel's back. But since your goal is to simply break the camel's back, why bother being all precise? Just drop a frackin' semi full of hay bales onto the camel and get it over with.

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Chiroptera
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Message 289 of 292 (231624)
08-09-2005 7:20 PM


misunderstanding of falsification
It is a shame to have come all this way only to find out that Evopeach doesn't understand Darwin's falsification statement. If we had known this earlier I'm sure that someone could have set him straight.
Darwin's statement was, essentially, that his theory (of common descent through small modifications) would be falsified if it could be shown that there is any complex organ in any species which could not have arisen from earlier precursors through small modification. The presence of carbon in living species is not an organ in any sense of the word, and so Darwins statement does not apply to it.
At any rate, the importance of carbon as a building material in all life can be explained by the theory of evolution by postulatiing that carbon was an important material in the first ancestral organisms; then the importance of carbon in present life is simply explained as the chemical heritage of our common ancestor.
The use of carbon in life in no way provides a refutation of the theory of evolution.

Trixie
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Message 290 of 292 (231631)
08-09-2005 7:39 PM
Reply to: Message 286 by Evopeach
08-09-2005 7:03 PM


Re: Talking Points
Evopeach, how much biology and chemistry have you studied?

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gnojek
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Message 291 of 292 (231632)
08-09-2005 7:46 PM
Reply to: Message 252 by PurpleYouko
08-09-2005 2:52 PM


Re: Talking Points
In theory you could replace all the C12 with C13 and the system would carry right on.
Well, it would carry on slower...

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Message 292 of 292 (231645)
08-09-2005 8:34 PM


I'm Appalled!
I'm sorry I wasn't able to return to this thread for so many hours. EvoPeach is apparently determined to be as unconstructive as possible and has used up the rest of this thread on dribble. I'm closing this down.

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