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| Authored by: tiger99 on Sunday, March 31 2013 @ 05:40 AM EDT |
| Evolution, as the term is commonly understood, does not work, can not work, and
has never been seen to work. If you do the arithmetic, it turns out to be so
improbable as to be not even worth wasting time on. Think about mutation rates,
the fraction of those which are useful, the probability of a male and female
with useful mutations meeting and breeding, etc, and put even your best
estimates of numbers in and you will find that getting from a single celled
amoeba to even an insect, far less man, will need umpteen times longer that the
currently estimated age of the universe. Where evolution seems to work, sort
of, is in single cells such as bacteria which reproduce by division, and the
statistics are very different indeed. Many people such as geneticists have great
difficulty in accepting that it is possible with larger creatures, except in
very limited ways. Evolution as a concept was introduced by people so proud
and arrogant that, unlike many highly competent scientists and other
professionals, they refused to acknowledge the existence of a Creator. The fact
that the Biblical account is widely misrepresented by supposedly religious
people, who seemingly can't read, or at least can't read Hebrew, helped even
more to confuse the issue. Even Darwin himself recanted in the end, when he saw
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| Authored by: Wol on Sunday, March 31 2013 @ 07:55 AM EDT |
Which means it can't be a fact.
It's a matter of belief, it's a religion. Fact is, it seems to work (most of the
time :-).
It is this demand for certainty, this need for absolutes, that sends the bulk of
humanity haring down all sorts of stupid paths, at the behest of confidence
tricksters and con-men, that leads to so much strife in the world.
Oh, and I include in my list of tricksters and con-men the liberal-arts
journalists who preach about what science can and has done (without bothering to
check their facts first :-)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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