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Because evolution talks about branch points not linear changes.
Remember, it's not like theres just ONE of "whatever" when a mutation happens. There's more. So mutated whatever keeps breeding and over time additional mutations keep going and you get a new species.
But the other Whatevers kept breeding too. So their species survives.
But there's nothing that says there's only one branch point. Or that something doesn't wipe out Whatever, or Mutated Whatever.
Take two identical ARs. One is your stock "go to" that you leave alone. The ither, you swap hand guards, rail, trigger, sights, paint job. At the end of the day one is markedly differe t from the other. But .... it's still identifiable as an AR, and they both started off the same.
So what was the first step in evolution? How exactly did the change from inorganic to organic occur? How exactly did the change from nonliving inorganic to life occur?
Without knowing these answers, evolution seems a lot like a faith-based belief system to me.
How, exactly, is it that evolution, "makes far more sense?" All I did was ask a few questions that no one who believes in evolution knows the answers to, and point out that therefore evolution is as much a faith-based belief system as any other religion. Evolution is a religion where science is God. My intent was to either get a believer in evolution to answer the questions (which you cannot do), or at least admit that their belief in evolution is faith based. I fully expected to get neither in any convincing fashion. I also expected to get insulting and demeaning answers, such as referring to God as, "an invisible man in the sky." The greatest weakness in the theory of evolution is the inability of most of those who believe in it to debate the topic without insulting or demeaning religion. Richard Dawkins loves the phrase, "flying spaghetti monster," to refer to God because Richard Dawkins likes to be an insulting ass to religious folks. He has actually argued that aliens may have started life on Earth, as if that makes more sense. When pressed, he, like many other atheists who believe in evolution, will come up with any BS to bolster his belief in evolution, no matter how ludicrous. Sounds pretty faith-based to me.
As for myself, the God I believe in could have made us via the proces we call evolution, and I'm totally cool with that idea. I don't go to church, nor do I want to. I call myself an agnostic when pressed to describe my beliefs, only because I feel that the word agnostic describes my beliefs better than most other words. I do believe that the world is a better place because of Judeo-Christian beliefs and those who practice them.
Last edited by LMT Shooter; 02-10-20 at 09:58.
That the theory evolution makes more sense than an invisible man in the sky is obvious to any sane person. It's a clinical fact that any adult person who has an invisible friend is a certifiable lunatic.
I can not answer your questions of "So what was the first step in evolution? How exactly did the change from inorganic to organic occur? How exactly did the change from nonliving inorganic to life occur" because I don't know, and neither do you.
I have no beliefs, I simply know what I know and everything else will remain a theory until proven one way or the other.
As for faith , Faith is believing what you know ain't so. … Mark Twain
PS it's extremely difficult not to give what you describe as "demeaning answers "when confronted with idiotic religious doctrine.
Last edited by Mick Boon; 02-10-20 at 11:45.
Using a fictional book written by man about a magic deity in the sky in order to explain phenomena that his lack of knowledge otherwise could not in order to discredit fact base science. Classic.
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