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Author Topic:   Evolutionary Theory Explains Diversity
Beretta
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Message 24 of 160 (465241)
05-04-2008 9:55 AM
Reply to: Message 12 by RAZD
04-27-2008 9:18 PM


Deism?
Consider that life was created, but it was simple single cells: what prevents evolution from occurring after this point?
Are you saying that intelligence may have created the first cells rather than natural processes and then mutation and selection took over from there? Some form of deism?? You have to have life reproducing before mutation and selection can get going, so are you suggesting a mix of ID and evolution?
We can even consider that the universe was created in a way that life would develop naturally.
Like some kind of biochemical predestination following natural laws?
Practically speaking all fossils are transitional, as they all show features intermediate between ancestor species and daughter species.
What about the sudden biological big bang in the Cambrian explosion - no links between all those phyla that appeared and even the few multicellular organisms present precambrian have no connection to the kinds of creatures found in the Cambrian -why? You have to presume that only natural causes can be used to explain these things and then presume that all the many many intermediates that must have been around all happened not to fossilize giving the distinct impression that these organisms occurred suddenly as though created.
Do you know how many different kinds of eyes exist that show intermediate forms from light sensitive patches of skin to eyes capable of seeing 6 primary colors and focusing on mice from hundreds of feet in the air?
Well there again, there's no clear transition only the assumption that one led eventually to the other by natural causes and only because of an a priori decision by 'science' that design can't be the answer to any question.So by the definition of 'science' it is already decided that only natural causes and chance can have anything to do with it.What proof do we have that random changes can lead to these incredibly complex systems purely by random chance mutations and natural selection? We don't but it has already been decided, before one piece of evidence was presented, at the level of the definition of 'science'. Instead of defining science as the search for natural causes, we should start with a different definition that science should be the search for the true causes behind all this diversity and not a priori leave out the other possible option -design.

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