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originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: whereislogic
No one has presented a reasonable creationism hypothesis, so...
*shrug*
And I'm pretty positive no one would be willing to actually go out and test it, anyway. Faith is more forgiving than science.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
a reply to: whereislogic
You have had this whole thread and a few others to put up or shut up. By now I've just accepted you have nothing. And that means I have nothing for you either.
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: Phantom423
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: Phantom423
Debate? Give me the time and the place. It's about time one of you (or all of you - doesn't matter to me), steps up to the plate and presents your evidence.
Come up with some stipulations of victory. What determines the winner? Voting from observers would be too biased, unless we got a group of undecided people (regarding evo or ID). Or is it simply a mental exercise?
You name the time and the place. I'll be there.
West end of the reflecting pool in Washington DC at noon would be regal enough. ATS forum on a weekend might be the most convenient though.
Well are you up to a debate or not? The other guy didn't answer so I'll take that as a no.
If you're not, just say so and we'll be done with it.
Thanks
spoiler alert: its a waste of your time.
Evolution debate
Another evolution debate
ANOTHER evolution debate
Yet another evolution debate
Wait, again? Seriously?
....*sigh*
this is an exercise of pride for some members, they derive satisfaction from frustrating you and others. now that i have posted the links here, i imagine we can just let the willing educate themselves on the matter. the rest will not be moved no matter what lengths you go to.
originally posted by: flyingfish
Indeed.. but the numbers don't lie. It may take a generation but the creationist will go extinct unless they ironically... Evolve!
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: flyingfish
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: flyingfish
originally posted by: Phantom423
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: Phantom423
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: WASTYT
originally posted by: neoholographic
www.icr.org...
Did you really just cite ICR?
That's a bad job. I mean, there's no way anyone you're trying to convince will take anything from that site seriously. It's a well known propaganda and biased, "organization". Come on, you should know better.
Give me a break LOL!
When I hear stuff like this, it usually means people can't debate the issue so instead of debating they want to say EVERYTHING is discredited from a source.
So you have read and sourced every article on ICR?
So the only ones that have an agenda is sites that reach a different conclusion than you do. I see this any time something is listed from a Creationist website. I go to creationist website as well as Darwinists websites. I just find it odd, that everytime a site that's ran by Creationist is mentioned EVERYTHING on the site must be a lie.
That's just nonsense.
If it's a lie, explain why it's a lie. Blanket indictments show a lack of understanding and the ability to argue a point.
Hhahaha exactly! It's laughable that we put up with their evolution propaganda sources, yet when we cite people who are arguing against such, it is blindly dismissed without consideration. This is why you can't argue with these people.
I know.
They list these things with zero context or commentary as it relates to the topic being discussed. This is because there's no answer to the questions so they can't articulate a response. So they say go fish.
Neither one of you is capable of arguing the topic. You couldn't pass a Genetics or Molecular Biology 101 course. You don't even get the terminology correct most of the time.
ok...then why are you still here arguing with them?
d'oh!
Good question. And I'm done with this thread. Thanks for reminding me that my own work IN A REAL LAB, WITH REAL DATA, REAL SCIENTISTS AND HONEST RESULTS, is more important than arguing with scammers and extremists.
Don't go! Denigration of science and the purposeful propagation of misinformation by creationist must not stand.
I know creationist can be frustrating in their eternal denial but less not forget the readers. Keep correcting them, you may not get through, but the readers can look up the facts for themselves an see the deception of creationist propaganda regardless of denial.
Deception is their Achilles heel and is proving to be their downfall as world wide religion declines. In a way, it's good they raise their ugly heads in forums like this, so that we may shine a spotlight on their dishonesty, effectively removing the god head.
its a conspiracy forum. these threads make as much difference as uploading a video on youtube.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: Phantom423
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: cooperton
originally posted by: neoholographic
originally posted by: WASTYT
originally posted by: neoholographic
www.icr.org...
Did you really just cite ICR?
That's a bad job. I mean, there's no way anyone you're trying to convince will take anything from that site seriously. It's a well known propaganda and biased, "organization". Come on, you should know better.
Give me a break LOL!
When I hear stuff like this, it usually means people can't debate the issue so instead of debating they want to say EVERYTHING is discredited from a source.
So you have read and sourced every article on ICR?
So the only ones that have an agenda is sites that reach a different conclusion than you do. I see this any time something is listed from a Creationist website. I go to creationist website as well as Darwinists websites. I just find it odd, that everytime a site that's ran by Creationist is mentioned EVERYTHING on the site must be a lie.
That's just nonsense.
If it's a lie, explain why it's a lie. Blanket indictments show a lack of understanding and the ability to argue a point.
Hhahaha exactly! It's laughable that we put up with their evolution propaganda sources, yet when we cite people who are arguing against such, it is blindly dismissed without consideration. This is why you can't argue with these people.
I know.
They list these things with zero context or commentary as it relates to the topic being discussed. This is because there's no answer to the questions so they can't articulate a response. So they say go fish.
Neither one of you is capable of arguing the topic. You couldn't pass a Genetics or Molecular Biology 101 course. You don't even get the terminology correct most of the time.
ok...then why are you still here arguing with them? D'oh!
Because if they are not confronted with real facts then some might think that that their BS has a basis in fact. Which it does not.
see above response.
I do not agree..
I know several members who have abandoned creationism and other pseudoscientific woo because of knowledge they have gleaned from these forums.
and what has the world gained from this?
we each have all the significance of a pebble plunking in the mississippi river. but dont be daunted by this fact, be liberated. although arguing with these clowns is rather a waste of liberty.
originally posted by: whereislogic
Your denial of the conclusive evidence and pretending it's not there and conditioning other people with that idea isn't going to make it go away.
originally posted by: whereislogic
Your denial of the conclusive evidence and pretending it's not there and conditioning other people with that idea isn't going to make it go away.
originally posted by: Barcs
What conclusive evidence?
YOU are on a remote, uninhabited island. While walking along the beach, you see “John 1800” engraved on a boulder. Do you assume that because the island is isolated and uninhabited, the marks must be the result of wind or water erosion? Of course not! You rightly conclude that someone made that inscription. Why? For one thing, a string of well-defined letters and numbers—even if they are in a foreign language—does not occur naturally. Second, the statement contains meaningful information, indicating an intelligent source.
In everyday life, we encounter information encoded in many forms—such as Braille or letters of the alphabet, as well as diagrams, musical notes, spoken words, hand signs, radio signals, and computer programs involving the binary code, using zeros and ones. The information-conveying medium can be virtually anything, from light to radio waves to paper and ink. Whatever the case, people always associate meaningful information with an intelligent mind—unless such information is contained in a living cell. That information, say evolutionists, just happened or wrote itself somehow. But did it? Consider the evidence.
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Provide some REAL evidence for intelligent design, not assumptions made based on the appearance of complexity.
originally posted by: whereislogic
Consider the Evidence Awake!—2011
YOU are on a remote, uninhabited island. While walking along the beach, you see “John 1800” engraved on a boulder. Do you assume that because the island is isolated and uninhabited, the marks must be the result of wind or water erosion? Of course not! You rightly conclude that someone made that inscription. Why? For one thing, a string of well-defined letters and numbers—even if they are in a foreign language—does not occur naturally. Second, the statement contains meaningful information, indicating an intelligent source.
In everyday life, we encounter information encoded in many forms—such as Braille or letters of the alphabet, as well as diagrams, musical notes, spoken words, hand signs, radio signals, and computer programs involving the binary code, using zeros and ones. The information-conveying medium can be virtually anything, from light to radio waves to paper and ink. Whatever the case, people always associate meaningful information with an intelligent mind—unless such information is contained in a living cell. That information, say evolutionists, just happened or wrote itself somehow. But did it? Consider the evidence.
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I'm pretty sure you won't actually read the rest there under that link, but hoping someone else will.
Which becomes extra funny (you said you wanted comedy) if I managed to avoid using the word complexity to not open the door for that twist in all or most of my commentary so far, can't remember, I do usually try to avoid giving people that assist unless I'm quoting from someone else.
The little bacterium has 473 genes. And the team at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California admit they don't know what a third of the actually do. They just know the microbe dies without them.
"It actually taught us that we need to be a lot more humble about basic knowledge in biology," Venter said.
Scientists have been humbled before. They once thought that large stretches of the human genome that did not code for actual genes was "junk DNA". It's now clear that junk is essential for making everything work.
One of the genes that governs bone density in human beings is called low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5, or LRP5 for short. Mutations which impair the function of LRP5 are known to cause osteoporosis. But a different kind of mutation can amplify its function, causing one of the most unusual human mutations known.
This mutation was first discovered fortuitously, when a young person from a Midwest family was in a serious car crash from which they walked away with no broken bones. X-rays found that they, as well as other members of the same family, had bones significantly stronger and denser than average. (One doctor who's studied the condition said, "None of those people, ranging in age from 3 to 93, had ever had a broken bone.") In fact, they seem resistant not just to injury, but to normal age-related skeletal degeneration. Some of them have benign bony growths on the roof of their mouths, but other than that, the condition has no side effects - although, as the article notes dryly, it does make it more difficult to float. As with Apo-AIM, some drug companies are researching how to use this as the basis for a therapy that could help people with osteoporosis and other skeletal diseases.
originally posted by: neoholographic
What is natural selection?
It's a blind, random process that occurs after the fact.
the regulatory network that was DESIGNED BY INTELLIGENCE
This is natural selection. It's blind, random and it can't give meaning and function to a sequence of DNA that regulates expression. It just means, if you have a trait that's better at surving in the environment, your population will increase through reproduction.
What's happening here is, there's a network of regulatory genes that regulate gene expression. This regulatory network is highly designed by intelligence based on sequences of DNA that has meaning and function. Even with the smallest genome, this regulatory network is complex.
Sadly for Darwin, the simple cell turned into a super computer and it can store vast amounts of information in DNA around the size of a tylenol tablet. In that gram of DNA, 20th Century fox could encode every movie they ever made and then some.
Anyway, the question here is, did the mutation create any DNA sequence that gives meaning and function to a DNA sequence that regulates expression? Of course not.