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ketsuko
reply to post by Blue_Jay33
Sounds like my husband, also a microbiologist.
He thinks that continuing to dogmatically with evolution is doing science a disservice, not so much because he thinks there needs to be a shift toward creationism or anything like that but because he believes the dogmatic defense of it is stifling scientific inquiry.
Physics went from Newtonian to Einstein to Quantum. Each was a shift in the fundamental understanding and allowed for huge new leaps forward.
So why must our understanding of biology be forever stuck with Darwin maybe our deeper understanding would allow us make that next leap forward if scientists could question Darwin.
But then, maybe it was easier for Physics being based primarily on math like it is. Numbers are much harder to argue with.
OpenMindedRealist
You are confused by my statements because you assume that there are only two choices: all Darwinian evolution, or all intelligent design. The point was made farther up the thread that the two ideas are not exclusive of each other.
You bring a perveted example of the bible thumping brainwashing kind as proof? It's no different than a Atheist displaying ignorrance in the form of vomited idealistic perversions of there own reality.
I see you at this point in the thread acting as a holy roller of the darwinian kind. No better than the brainwashed child who turned in that failure of a test.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Ghandi
I would further Infinity, Frogger, and Alice for each of you to explain to me, Individual Conciousness and how this just so happened to come into play?
Musta been one hell of a fart for our universe to create such a phenomenon.
Your evolution has not procured a walking talking monkey either. It has produced a individual who's own ignorrance is mocking someone else's belief as hersay.
A evolutionist who wants to push there views as right is no better than a individual who believes in god.
It sounds to me as though I touched a nerve. I'm not surprised.
sulaw
reply to post by SuperFrog
Your evolution has not procured a walking talking monkey either. It has produced a individual who's own ignorrance is mocking someone else's belief as hersay.
A evolutionist who wants to push there views as right is no better than a individual who believes in god.
RedShirt73
reply to post by ZakOlongapo
Peppered Moth
A little excerpt:
"The evolution of the peppered moth over the last two hundred years has been studied in detail. Originally, the vast majority of peppered moths had light colouration, which effectively camouflaged them against the light-coloured trees and lichens which they rested upon. However, because of widespread pollution during the Industrial Revolution in England, many of the lichens died out, and the trees that peppered moths rested on became blackened by soot, causing most of the light-coloured moths, or typica, to die off from predation. At the same time, the dark-coloured, or melanic, moths, carbonaria, flourished because of their ability to hide on the darkened trees.[1]
Since then, with improved environmental standards, light-coloured peppered moths have again become common, but the dramatic change in the peppered moth's population has remained a subject of much interest and study, and has led to the coining of the term industrial melanism to refer to the genetic darkening of species in response to pollutants. As a result of the relatively simple and easy-to-understand circumstances of the adaptation, the peppered moth has become a common example used in explaining or demonstrating natural selection.[2]"
Or this, lol.
edit on 29-10-2013 by RedShirt73 because: (no reason given)