Evolution - True Or False

Discussion in 'Biology & Genetics' started by darksidZz, Feb 10, 2007.

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  1. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    The bible was written by men, usually in the third person, most of whom did not observe the alleged events they wrote about.
     
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  3. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

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    How do you supposedly know that?
     
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  5. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    Your best is not good enough apparently. Hopefully one day you will understand. Thanks for the chat.
     
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  7. Saquist Banned Banned

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    No Thanks required.

    Actually they may have not been there but the may have observed them.
    We don't know as a certainty. We do know they got the facts amazingly correct everytime.
     
  8. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    Would you be willing to debate that in another thread

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  9. Saquist Banned Banned

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    No.
    I really have no wish to antagonize you further.
     
  10. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    I have started a thread here: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1328807#post1328807

    Please back up your claim which I believe is false.
     
  11. Saquist Banned Banned

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    Intresting...

    What purpose would it serve to enter discussion on a thread where the participant has already decided not to listen?
     
  12. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    I hope to engage you in a debate you might actually know something about. As I pointed out in that thread your claim that the facts are perfect is false. Along with many of your other assumptions.
     
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    It was all happenstance just like a car crash

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  14. Saquist Banned Banned

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    I've studied the Bible for a very long time because such is my religion to remain active in bible knowledge. I've engaged in teaching over a portion of those years and have taught those people that the inconsistancies that people are concerned about in the bible are apparent not actual. To come to that undersanding requires study and a certain amount of fore knowledge the tribes, custums and laws that impart understanding about differences in the gospel accounts and problems with translations that are used today.

    When the moderator said he didn't wish for this to be "a bible study" I complied on this thread...because that's exactly what one would need....study about tribes customs, laws, and translations, near if not exceeding the college level.

    One example was a fellow on the File Front Forums which gave me a similar challenge. I told him if I answered his first one I could answer them all.

    http://forums.filefront.com/showthread.php?t=237536&page=351

    I posted my response several days later. I took the first one only...And it turned out to be a translation issue...easily resolving the understanding between the two scriputres. All that because of one...word.

    I posted my response to just the very first one. He Litteraly had nothing to say afterwards. I don't have to go through that entire list to know that these scriptures are being misunderstood. My religion requres a certain amount knowledge to even participate in certain customs like our memorial of Christ Death...you term as the last supper. You may think the time of the super is in contradiction but I know precisely when and where that observance took place because we observe it every year on the evening (after sunset) on Nisan 14 according to the Jewish Lunar calendar. In fact the memorial service is coming up now and it doesn't correspond to popular belief.

    This is just an example...
    You need to study what you don't understand. That is in a way what I'm doing here. Gathering information on evolution from your perspectives. and it would seem that you and your cohorts believe that evolution and genetic engineering are the same thing.

    This, an understanding I don't share. That's what I meant by inconsistancies in the evolutionary arguement and the widely encompassing circle people and scientist draw around for evolution.

    It doesn't seem right.
     
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  15. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Evolution is a description of what's going on relative to a living thing and it's environment, and how it changes over time. It's neither engineering as humans know it, nor randomness.
     
  16. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    However, it can involve both. IE, Artificial specitation.
     
  17. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    I agree, if humans get involved, it complicates the standard model for how evolution works, but it's still an influence on evolution. Genetic engineering is the evolution of evolvability. Evolution produced beings that can control their own and other species' genetics. One day there will be beings that can design themselves, and a new kind of life will be born.
     
  18. Saquist Banned Banned

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    That's not the definition I've reviewed in Websters and Merriam's Dictionary

    ~It's neither but involves both? You agree with this?
    The how is the process of evolution controled.?
     
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  19. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    Our fiddling the the pig genome is clear evolution just as much as the virus that effects our genome. To call one natural and the other not would be strange.
     
  20. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    There are better definitions out there than the one I gave. Evolution is neither top-down active design by a complex agent, nor complete randomness. It is a passive mechanism that emerged from the conditions of early Earth, and it's probably universal.

    Evolution is controlled by the structure of the genome. Through redundancy and other coded structures, an organism can control to some extent which parts of the genome tend to be mutated. This ability evolved due to the fact that genomes which could affect how it mutated would be better adapted to the environment.

    This control is far from complete, and of course, it is oblivious to the organism. Organisms can also control their rates of mutation by limiting the kinds of foods they eat. A varied diet exposes one to more mutagens, so most organisms have specialized diets.
     
  21. river-wind Valued Senior Member

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    it's not controlled, but driven by Natural Selection, as first proposed by Chalres Darwin and Alfred Wallace.
     
  22. Saquist Banned Banned

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    Yeah, I've reviewed several of those "better definitions". I must point out that yours is the most vague.

    Explain: top-down active
    Explain: what is the primary motivator of evolution.
    Explain: Explain the complete totality of evolution in your own words.
    Explain: What is not evolution.
    Explain: From what stage in creature development does evolution begin.

    Has adaptation been observed to change on species into a completely different species?

    How many of those mutations pass on to the offspring?

    How did they determine that natural selection could control evolution from one species to another?
     
  23. w1z4rd Valued Senior Member

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    I notice you are not defending your "perfect facts" in the other thread. Typical hypocrite.
     
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