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Originally posted by Max777
Hi all,
I'm new so take it easy on me!
(Please, do not box me into a category! For the record: I am not a creationist, nor am I an evolutionist!)
It seems everyone has started this debate or whatever you'd like to call it, without first agreeing to a specific definition for evolution. If I'm wrong I apologize. A lot of comments have been made without working out this rather large detail.
The dictionary gives six different definitions for evolution and none of them specifically uphold any one view that has been argued here.
Let's define, in specific parameters, what kind evolution we're discussing. That way, there's likely to be less arguing and more critical thinking going on.
I personally think one kind of species, animal, etc., cannot transform or evolve into a completely different life form. Let me nail it down a little better; I don't think human beings evolved from apes or that apes evolved from sea creatures millions of years ago. When people call this evolution and then call it fact, that is when I object. There is no empirical scientific evidence to support such a theory.
Empirical research is any research that bases its findings on direct or indirect observation as its test of reality
Depending on what the definition of evolution we are debating I might agree or I might disagree. There is no doubt that life forms evolve through adaptation. Whether a creationist or an evolutionist, both camps seem to have very narrow and stubborn views on the origins of life.
Science, if we simplify it, is truth, or the search for truth. A debate, in my opinion, shouldn't be about winning an argument, but about coming closer to the truth through fairly respectful discussion. I know it's hard to separate our emotions from such an important subject but it is paramount to do just that. If we're ever going to come to some kind of a consensus on what evolution really is then we have to respect each other.
So...
What definition are we going with? What parameters does this definition include and what is the fundamental theory of "Evolution" that we're all trying to discuss?
Thanks.
Originally posted by SpacePunk
reply to post by B.A.C.
Considering the site that carries it as news. I doubt any real scientists have actually examined the prints. Any one of a number of hominids steps into some wet sediment, and over a million years later it's a human footprint? I can say that Homo Sapiens didn't lay that print down unless it was done recently with tools.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
dogs, cats, cattle....even birds....(well, not so much birds....unless you include ducks and chickens)....again, these examples are, really US, we Humans, attempting to behave like YOUR God!!!
Yes, it is true....even though various dogs look very, very dissimilar, to OUR eyes, due to our meddling....their sperm and ova still combine!!!
The bred-in genetic traits still combine, and cause a different-looking, but still viable, member of the same species to be born.
A dog and a cat cannot mate....their sperm and ova are not compatible
But, here's the rub!!! A person of Chinese descent and a Maori from Australia can mate....they look quite different, doncha think?
It's quite obvious, based on this alleged 'scientist's' views.....and I'm referring to 'Bauer'....he is a fraud, a homophobic aberration masquerading as a 'scientist'.
Did I mention he seems to also be a religious fanatic?? Otherwise, he would not hold the views attributed to him.
When backed into a corner, these people will cite the 'bible'.....
...also shown to be unreliable. (Oh, Really?!? Well, yes....really....look it up!!!!)I'd, personally like to see ALL religion erased from the Human psyche. Here's the funny part.....ATS is a World-Wide Forum, no? Yet, what do I see the most??? Very ignorant posts....as of late.
Now, I won't say they are equally from any particular point on the planet...based on idioms used, and obvious spelling mistakes, I can infer quite a lot. What I am trying to say here is.....it seems to come down to, on basis, bashing of Christianity. Now, just to be clear, I am NOT defending Christianity. IN THE MEAN TIME! I would like to see 'evolution' discussed WITHOUT the various religiosity sprinkled in!!!!!!!!!
Now, just to be clear, I am NOT defending Christianity.
Yes, it is true....even though various dogs look very, very dissimilar, to OUR eyes, due to our meddling....their sperm and ova still combine!!!
The bred-in genetic traits still combine, and cause a different-looking, but still viable, member of the same species to be born.
Quite a number of these 'accidental' mutations result in the death of a branch of said species. Some species find their niche, and see no need to 'adapt'....not unless or until there is an environmental pressure exerted.
But, here's the rub!!! A person of Chinese descent and a Maori from Australia can mate....they look quite different, doncha think?
Originally posted by andre18
Shocked and amazed! Faith means to believe without evidence - evolution has evidents. Also, evolution is not a belief system - that would be akin to calling the theory of gravity a belief system. .
Originally posted by Aermacchi
Originally posted by Fundie
What a shame I stumbled into this thread so late. I would have loved to once again stood beside Aerm... and others
I would have enjoyed that fundie, and as usual your posts prove your above average grasp of science. I too have seen the logical fallacy for assuming the consequent given by Darwits for years and they ignore the call and just continue blathering about exaggerated sums of evidence as proof or showing hatchet jobs of those that have challenged their religion of evolution by assuming they are all creationists who have nothing to show as if that is a requirment for anyone having the right to say anything abhout evolution.
I think this thread has been much more successful than the last one you and I were posting opposite 8 6th graders ad-homing us getting their yaya's and high fiving each other for it.
The battle between these age old arguments rages on but I have faith and they don't. That in and of itself is all I need and where their religion of atheism dressed up as evolution science is faith in man and one thing I know about man is this,,
man is lame and so is man's science
Scientific Misconduct
Scientific misconduct is no better defined a concept than is pathological science. An increasing rate of uncovered cases of fraud over the last two decades, chiefly the faking of evidence in clinical medicine (Broad & Wade 1982) led to much discussion of possible ways to prevent and to sanction misconduct by scientists.
Journals devoted specifically to issues of ethical research were founded, for example Accountability in Research in 1993 (a quarterly, ISSN 0898-9621) and Science and Engineering Ethics in 1995 (also a quarterly, ISSN 1471-5546).
It has proved impossible to arrive at a definition of scientific misconduct that could be approved by US government agencies (National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation) as well as by professional scientific societies and industries engaged in scientific research.
A Web-site originally sponsored by the National Science Foundation (The Online Ethics Center for Science and Engineering, onlineethics.org...) lists many codes of ethical conduct established by various professional groups in engineering, mathematics, and science; the Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology makes available a similarly wide range of such codes (csep.iit.edu...).
Originally posted by Aermacchi
What science has used more frauds to substantiate its theory than Darwinist's? Name one coming even close?
Not only does Darwinist's get busted for using more fraud and using more discrimination and bias to keep out anyone who might challenge them, they are at the top of the list by a LONG SHOT!
Originally posted by iWork4NWO
Let's call science rationalism. Now rationalism is an ideology, yes? I can name one ideology that has used more frauds to substantiate its claims that all the other ideologies combined. It's called religion. You're doing your part right now.
First of all there are no Darwinists. None of us who understand the theory of evolution think that Charles Darwin was infallible. He wasn't. In fact he was wrong about quite a few things. We're not Darwinists or evolutionists or whatever. We're simply rational.
Now, put your money where your mouth is. Name all those 100s (or 1000s or whatever) cases of fraud in the field of study of evolution. Shouldn't be too hard if things really are the way you claim them to be. You can start with naming the 10 biggest frauds of them all.
Originally posted by Aermacchi
You come up with a thinly veiled insult to avoid getting spanked by the mods. The simple fact that you're getting pleasure by repeating this silly insults shows that you're simply not mature enough to have an adult discussion about the subject of this thread.
Ouch you really nailed em there wow! can I borrow that line for when you and your darwittian clan call us "xtians" or "fundies" to shame them into a more adult behavior or let me guess YOU are a Christian ???
[edit on 8-3-2009 by Aermacchi]
Originally posted by Aermacchi
PfffT where did you get this load of crap from your last OUT meeting with Sam Harris?
Are you a scientist? What makes you think you understand the the TOE any better than I do? You agreeing with it does not.
Been there done that and No one on these boards has devoted as much time and energy in that regard. I won't jump through all those hoops you are asking for when I have already posted many such examples but here is a link for you to find your own
And YOU can start with 10 biggest frauds of evolution but don't ask me to show you something proving evolution is all frauds when i know the excuses they all use as soon as I do. "Just because someone tried to commit a fraud doesn't mean the theory is wrong" or "Scientists discovered it was a fraud so it is self correcting " when Haekel was given an award recently when he should have been given an asterisk as a crook.
Originally posted by jfj123
Originally posted by Aermacchi
To the OP. So what's the point. There can be separate theories using the same tangible evidence. I could say just as theoretically that God created the universe and life as you could say that it just all happened all on it's own just because. This debate is far from over.
[edit on 7-3-2009 by Fromabove]
Actually no you couldn't say, "theoretically that god created the universe" as you have no evidence to support that statement as a theory. I guess you could call it a hypothesis but not a theory.
I don't see why not, after all you've been calling evolution a theory without evidence to support it but that's only because evolutionists consider conjecture as evidence and only when it suits THEM and the religion of evolution
To you, there's no such thing as science so there's no point in discussing science with you any further. You see science as a personal attack on your religion and that's unfortunate which means you can never learn anything science related.
[edit on 9-3-2009 by jfj123]
Originally posted by Aermacchi
No that may be YOUR defintion of faith but it isn't ours. It is YOURS because it is more meaningful to you to criticize those having faith which YOU DO.
Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. It is also used for a belief, characteristically without proof
Evolution's evidence? Where? show me ? I have seen NONE that hasn't been debunked as hoax after hoax after hoax after hoax. Scam after scam after scam after scam. How many many more Haekle and jekyl practical jokes are we to endure? How many more lucy's, colorado man, Java Man, neanderthal man, cro-magnun piles of piltdown paleontology imposters posing as proofs do we have to put up with till finally someone says ENOUGH OF THIS BS!
Originally posted by andre18
WARNING, THIS POST CONTAINS OWNAGE - VIEWERS DISCRETION IS ADVISED
(this is what you get when you base your claims on Christian website propaganda.)
Piltdown man:
darwinwasright.homestead.com...
100 years ago, the only human fossils yet known were a few Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, and Homo erectus. Then an English attorney and amateur archaeologist presented bones and associated artifacts of what appeared to be an as-yet unidentified species. British Imperialists were generally accepting of the news, but French and American scientists were skeptical, doubting that the skull and jaw even belonged together. The British museum touted the “Piltdown man” as authentic, but the American Museum of Natural History displayed it only as a “mixture of ape and man fossils”, which is what it eventually turned out to be.
There was no way to adequately examine such things back in 1915. Chemical tests –common today- didn’t yet exist and we didn’t yet have a practical understanding of radiation. And before the first australopiths were discovered, we didn’t know exactly what to expect of the links that were then still missing between humans and the other apes known at that time. But as we began filling in the gaps in human evolution with thousands of legitimate fossils, a pattern emerged which left Piltdown an increasingly obvious anomaly. Consequently it was taken off display and stored away almost continuously for decades. It lost importance in most discussions because, in light of everything else we discovered over the next few decades, it just never fit, and was eventually dismissed from the list of potential human ancestors for that reason.
As the years wore on, criticism arose against everyone who ever promoted the Piltdown collection because there seemed to be so much wrong with it. Finally, in the 1950s, it was taken back out of the box and scrutinized via more modern means. First fluorine dating revealed that it was much too recent, and it was shown to have been chemically-treated to give a false impression of its age and mineral composition. Then it was finally determined that the jaw must have come from an orangutan, and that it had been deliberately reshaped with modern tools in a well-crafted and deliberate forgery.
No one knows who did it either. And more importantly, why? Errors were already known and previously reported, but few ever suspected fraud because, what would be the motive? Nearly everyone who stood accused was a man of high reputation and credentials. Maybe that was the motive. Maybe Piltdown man was just a joke that had gone too far. But no one was laughing, and they weren’t going to let it happen again.
Nebraska man:
darwinwasright.homestead.com...
Even before the Piltdown hoax was officially exposed, an American paleontologist earned himself a life-time of embarrassment when he found a tooth from an extinct species of pig in Nebraska, and mislabeled it, Hesperopithecus. The cheek teeth of pigs and peccaries are fairly similar to ape molars, and this one was badly worn such that Henry Fairfield Osborne initially believed it to be human. But the real embarrassment came when he publicized his find in a popular magazine rather than submitting it for peer review first.
Creationists like to say that scientists were as duped by Nebraska man as they were by Piltdown man. But they weren’t. Everyone who saw the fossil agreed that it did look like an ape’s tooth. But with only a couple tentative exceptions, the entire contemporary scientific community either immediately rejected the accuracy of Osborne’s assertions, or they demanded more substantial evidence to back them. He obviously couldn’t provide that evidence despite another five years of searching. Eventually, he came to the sad realization that his fossil probably wasn’t really human after all. His more skeptical associate, W.K. Gregory then published a formal retraction in scientific journals.
Creationists often accuse scientists of contriving the illustration of Nebraska man and of conjuring a whole skeleton and facial construct out of a single tooth that was never even human in the first place. But the fact is that the magazine commissioned their own ‘artist’s impression’, and scientists of the day, including Osborn himself, immediately reacted with harsh criticism. As a result, the article was never reprinted.
Now even though Piltdown man was eventually exposed by evolution itself; and even though Nebraska man was simple stupidity, honestly and voluntarily admitted, and even though there were no other such examples in the history of paleoanthropology, -creationists still portray both of these events, and many others, as if they were all part of some ridiculous unified international conspiracy intended to fool the world into believing evolution over creation ex-nihilo. These paranoid propagandists also commonly contend -based only on these exceptions- that each of the thousands of fossil hominids we’ve found and confirmed before and since were all proven to be fakes too –even when the alleged authorities making these claims are already-exposed charlatans currently imprisoned for fraud.
Java man:
darwinwasright.homestead.com...
The two modern skulls weren’t fifty feet away; they were found in a cave over sixty miles away! Despite the many lies repeated by Duane Gish and other creationists, Java man was just one out of hundreds of Homo erectus individuals documented thus far.
Also, Homo floresiensis wasn’t microcephalic; there was a whole community of them. Similarly “Lucy” wasn’t assembled from bones found miles apart; those were different individuals who each bore their own independent evidence of strict bipedality.
Orce man:
www.talkorigins.org...
Gish (1985) tells the story of "Orce Man", a fossil discovered in 1982 near the Spanish town of Orce and claimed to be a human cranial fragment. The fossil comes from the Venta Micena site, and is designated VM-0. A symposium on it was planned for late May, 1984. Earlier that month, says Gish (citing a UPI news report from May 14, 1984):
"When French experts revealed the fact that "Orce Man" was most likely a skull fragment from a four-month-old donkey, embarrassed Spanish authorities sent out 500 letters cancelling invitations to the symposium."
Two French scientists had suggested the fragment "may have come" from a donkey. Another scientist quoted in the news report admitted there was some doubt as to the bone's identity, but thought it was still quite likely human. A third scientist quoted in another news report from Associated Press claimed it was definitely humanoid. Instead of it being a "fact" that the fragment is "most likely" a donkey, a fairer assessment would be that it was still unidentified, but possibly an equid (not necessarily a donkey).
By the next paragraph, Gish is exaggerating even further, and is calling the disputed fragment a "donkey's skull". It is not a skull, and it was not necessarily from a donkey.
It is easy to score cheap rhetorical points by implying that scientists are so incompetent that they cannot tell the difference between a human and a donkey. A more charitable explanation, which turns out to be the correct one, is that the bone is genuinely difficult to identify, as proved by the fact that debate over its status has continued for over 10 years.
Neanderthal:
en.wikipedia.org...
The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia. Neanderthals are either classified as a subspecies of humans (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) or as a separate species (Homo neanderthalensis).
Originally posted by iWork4NWO
All talk no substance, just like I figured. I know exactly what google search will come up with. A large list of websites with urls such as godisreal.com creationismrules.com thruthisjesus.com etc. Just lame fundie propaganda, nothing else.
The reason I bring this up, even though I did a Earnest Haeckel section earlier. Is because evolutionists still like to beat a dead horse. The picture above shows what became of the claimed gill slits as the embryo became older. For if we humans are forming gill slits, then you could say the same for the picture below. I wonder if that Buick was always a land lover? Them gill slits sure make it look like it was driven in water before land at one time.
if a creationist had done this to pictures to demonstrate truth, what would it have been called? Falsifying evidence. And that is what Haeckel did. The crime does not change because it was done by an evolutionist. They just think it's ok because lying to prove evolution has become such a normal thing. A little twist to truth here and there, not big deal. It just brings out the truth that should have been there. What a joke.
So why do they see it as not being wrong when they do it? Because a theory is not an absolute truth, the person who believes it never has to tell the truth while explaining it. Even though he will claim it to be truth and fact. But the truth in only in degrees of percent. Anything beyond that takes faith.
Here's where it will be brought back to our textbooks, and Haeckel will soon be a re-seated hero for the evolution theory:
The textbook fraud test where Haeckel is concerned:
If evolution is such a proven fact, why do evolutionists keep insisting on using proven "falsified" evidence, and information?
And why do they insist on printing this same fraud year after year, as if they present the lie long enough, people will believe it. Do you know who else had that mind set? Hitler was once over heard saying: If you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, people will soon start to believe it. Can you see the same tactic being used here? Just keep printing, and teaching it. Soon people will forget it was ever a lie. At least that's what they hope.
1) First they refuse to admit to the lie, until they just have to (twisting truth, and making excuses). And the excuse is that it was scientist that revealed fraud.
2) But, They allow it to continue in our textbooks, as they try and vendicate Haeckel and make him some type of evolutionist Hero. Making a admitted fraudulent person into some type of Hero, just shows what is really behind this belief.
For if they were truly sorry, and remorseful for what Haeckel did, I would not be putting up the information about this subject. Why? Because if the right thing had been done (removing completely Haeckel's works from science), it would not take 4 whole webpages to explain why it is wrong to continue teaching this. Why did it take 4 whole pages? Because evolutionist are so convinced that what Haeckel did was ok (fraud), the subject has to be broken down in such a fashion so they cannot say: I did not know that. Why would they say that? Because another evolutionist is surely not going to give them all this information.
Dinosaur T-Rex blood.
How does blood, and soft tissue, last for 70 million years? It cannot. But just like the Coelacanth fish that is claimed to be extinct and over 300 million years old, this is another hoax of old age that has reared it's ugly head to bite evolutionists once again. More and more evidence that messes up old age just keeps cropping up.
Evolutionists excuse for this? This is a new way of fossilizing that we do not understand. Well, we are waiting for you to understand, or at least think up a good excuse.
Yes, I am a scientist. Going on my 5th year in a faculty of biosciences in a large European university. This makes me think that I understand the theory of evolution a lot better than you do. TOE, by the way refers to "theory of everything"..
By the next paragraph, Gish is exaggerating even further, and is calling the disputed fragment a "donkey's skull". It is not a skull, and it was not necessarily from a donkey.
It is easy to score cheap rhetorical points by implying that scientists are so incompetent that they cannot tell the difference between a human and a donkey. A more charitable explanation, which turns out to be the correct one, is that the bone is genuinely difficult to identify, as proved by the fact that debate over its status has continued for over 10 years.
Now even though Piltdown man was eventually exposed by evolution itself; and even though Nebraska man was simple stupidity, honestly and voluntarily admitted, and even though there were no other such examples in the history of paleoanthropology, -creationists still portray both of these events, and many others, as if they were all part of some ridiculous unified international conspiracy
Creationists like to say that scientists were as duped by Nebraska man as they were by Piltdown man. But they weren’t
Originally posted by jfj123
Originally posted by Aermacchi
You come up with a thinly veiled insult to avoid getting spanked by the mods. The simple fact that you're getting pleasure by repeating this silly insults shows that you're simply not mature enough to have an adult discussion about the subject of this thread.
Ouch you really nailed em there wow! can I borrow that line for when you and your darwittian clan call us "xtians" or "fundies" to shame them into a more adult behavior or let me guess YOU are a Christian ???
[edit on 8-3-2009 by Aermacchi]
I'm not going to ask you again if you continue to post quotes as mine when they are NOT Ill alert the mods. last warning.
I try to allow for mistakes as I believe mistakes are made but I find this is no longer an accident by you and you are being deliberate in your misrepresentaion of me and my posts.
google this and see who said it
" You come up with a thinly veiled insult to avoid getting spanked by the mods. The simple fact that you're getting pleasure by repeating this silly insults shows that you're simply not mature enough to have an adult discussion about the subject of this thread."
Originally posted by Aermacchi
]Originally posted by jfj123
Originally posted by Aermacchi
You come up with a thinly veiled insult to avoid getting spanked by the mods. The simple fact that you're getting pleasure by repeating this silly insults shows that you're simply not mature enough to have an adult discussion about the subject of this thread.
Ouch you really nailed em there wow! can I borrow that line for when you and your darwittian clan call us "xtians" or "fundies" to shame them into a more adult behavior or let me guess YOU are a Christian ???
[edit on 8-3-2009 by Aermacchi]
I'm not going to ask you again if you continue to post quotes as mine when they are NOT Ill alert the mods. last warning.
I try to allow for mistakes as I believe mistakes are made but I find this is no longer an accident by you and you are being deliberate in your misrepresentaion of me and my posts.
google this and see who said it
" You come up with a thinly veiled insult to avoid getting spanked by the mods. The simple fact that you're getting pleasure by repeating this silly insults shows that you're simply not mature enough to have an adult discussion about the subject of this thread."
Originally posted by jfj123
Yes we all make mistakes.
My bad.
Just like the mistake you just made with your post.
Any mistake I've made was accidental. Your rudeness is on purpose.
[edit on 9-3-2009 by jfj123]