Monday, September 1, 2008
Cretinism strikes again
I spotted this on another blog, and since the blog owner restricts comments, I will post my response here.
Three Devastating Questions To Ask Evolutionists & Three Points Which Destroy The Theory Of Evolution And Show That Intelligent Design Is A Reality
This is incredibly ignorant. First of all, nobody is saying that a mouth or a lung suddenly evolved, fully formed and floating in space, before an animal evolved to use it. Less complex organisms, with less complex organs and systems, give rise to more complex ones. We see this going on at the present day as well as in the fossil record.
Secondly, the Cambrian explosion was an "explosion" only on a geological timescale - it took place over at least 10 million years. It is absolutely not a problem for evolution. Again, we can see from the fossil record what the Cambrian organisms evolved from, and how they evolved during the "explosion".
Finally, the whole concept of "the creation of new information that is required for one animal to turn into another animal" is meaningless. Information is all about how humans interpret patterns in data. Water doesn't "need information" in order to turn into ice - it just follows natural laws. Anyway, an animal doesn't turn into another animal - typically what happens is that a subpopulation of organisms splits off from a parent population, develops in isolation and in response to the environment, and after many generations shows features that are different from the parent population, to the point that they are different species.
I'm tired of giving links which disprove the big lie that there are no transitional fossils. Evolution is going on continuously, so every fossil is a transitional fossil. Every time a "missing link" is found, in which fossil C fills the gap between fossil A and fossil B, the creationists start screaming about the new gaps between fossils A and C, and C and B.
Oh, and nice bit of quote mining too. So much for the three devastating points!
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RSS feed for comments | Tommykey wrote 9/1 6:06pm in reply to Original article: Would like to see how these cretins explain the snakehead fish, which can breathe outside of the water for short periods of time. Then again, they're too busy trying to refute a caricature of evolution rather than what it really tells us. You get idiot theistards saying "no dog ever came from a fish" when evolution tells us that dogs and bears have a common ancestor (ever notice when you see a bear walk on all fours how much like a dog it looks?) (Reply) |
