Board index › Topical Discussion › Computers, Math, Science, and Technology

Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to YEC Arguments

Page 1 of 1 [ 6 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

funeralxempire
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 27 Oct 2014
Age: 40
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 33,374
Location: Right over your left shoulder

04 Jul 2024, 7:11 am


_________________
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. — Warren Buffett


cyberdad
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 36,036

16 Jul 2024, 3:59 am

I imagine the young earth people would be surprised that intelligent design of the human DNA means something completely different in 2024 to the idea of a old man in the sky touching clay to create Adam.



Fnord
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 6 May 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 60,939
Location:      

16 Jul 2024, 4:55 am

People who seem horrified at the very suggestion that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, also seem to have no problem at all with the idea that the first man was made from a pile of dirt, and that the first woman was constructed from the first man's rib.



Fenn
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 1 Sep 2014
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,020
Location: Pennsylvania

16 Jul 2024, 6:17 am

There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be smarter than himself. There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be more powerful than himself. There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be more loving than himself.

Funny how scientists keep assuming that they know “everything” but keep discovering new things they didn’t know every year. Truth is… there is more unknown than known.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man


_________________
ADHD-I(diagnosed) ASD-HF(diagnosed)
RDOS scores - Aspie score 131/200 - neurotypical score 69/200 - very likely Aspie


funeralxempire
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 27 Oct 2014
Age: 40
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 33,374
Location: Right over your left shoulder

16 Jul 2024, 8:02 am

Fenn wrote:
There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be smarter than himself. There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be more powerful than himself. There will always be someone convinced God couldn’t be more loving than himself.

Funny how scientists keep assuming that they know “everything” but keep discovering new things they didn’t know every year. Truth is… there is more unknown than known.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man


Really? The irony is the impressive straw man of scientists you've built and the lack of self-awareness it takes to link to that specific article immediately afterwards. :lol:


_________________
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. —Malcolm X
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. — Warren Buffett


cyberdad
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 36,036

16 Jul 2024, 5:05 pm

Fnord wrote:
People who seem horrified at the very suggestion that humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor, also seem to have no problem at all with the idea that the first man was made from a pile of dirt, and that the first woman was constructed from the first man's rib.


I was watching a 1950s US television news program on Youtube were the newsreader was talking about evidence for evolution to refute the prevailing christian theological ideologies which were rampant at the time.

He was doing well, until he introduced three people into the studio (an African American, Mexican and a Caucasian) to illustrate how humans evolved from apes. I faceplanted but really shouldn't have been surprised as he proceeded to point out how two of his guests (in front of their faces) were closer to apes "proving" humans evolved over thousands of years.

Americans :roll: