Evolution works in mysterious ways

[Matthew Faithfull]

73Zeppelin wrote:

Is it any wonder I have no patience for you and the other idiot?

No, but that's an issue you need to deal with. Patience is a hard lesson so be careful what you ask for.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[73Zeppelin]

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Oh believe me I understand it very well, that's the whole point, random, undirected, arbitrary, stochastic, probabalistic and therefore destructive to a non random, useful, structured information set.

Oh, you put words side by side alright. Too bad they don't mean anything. You wouldn't know a stochastic process if it hit you in the face. Anyways, interesting paragraph but the Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit theorem prove you're wrong. Try harder next time.

[73Zeppelin]

I knew you wouldn't couldn't answer my questions. The reason? Because your remarks are meaningless and made up on the spot.

[Oakman]

Christian Graus wrote:

Well, you're presenting an interesting dichotomy

Again, it's a matter of whether the tool works.

Christian Graus wrote:

What if not everyone who doesn't believe 100% in evolution believes in a young earth

As long as it's a matter of belief, there will be an inability to accept facts that contradict what is believed. I personally don't believe in Evolution, I simply accept it as the best explanation possible. If there is a God that actually gives a damn about such things, then I would have to assume that He created the earth in such a way as to support the Theory of Evolution to such an extent that rejecting it might be a minor blasphemy Edit:

Christian Graus wrote:

The Bible doesn't actually say that

The quote regarding Giants is directly from the Bible, as I am sure you know.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

[Matthew Faithfull]

:laugh: Never met anyone who can do that but have come across a few strange ones. How encouraging it is to know that my father is 'not willing that any should perish' and offers hope even to the worst of us. I for one will hold onto the hope that one day we will know completely, even as we are known. Perhaps I won't even miss the debate :)

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[R Giskard Reventlov]

You believe in a god, do you not? Doesn't get any more fantasy based than that.

me, me, me

[Matthew Faithfull]

Perhaps it's not my voice you're hearing. :laugh:

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[Matthew Faithfull]

73Zeppelin wrote:

I see you have the same reading comprehension/misrepresentation problem as Idiot.

A little unlikely to say the least.

73Zeppelin wrote:

What is it with you fundies and your affinity for lies?

Point to lie before uttering one at least please :confused:

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[soap brain]

Even if your dubious claims of 'de-evolution' were correct, how would that agree with the Bible?

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

[Lost User]

These are the ways a genome can change: Point mutation - change of one nucleotide to another - no information loss, can cause the acquisition of new features (e.g. antibiotic resistance) Insertion - insertion of 1+ nucleotides Deletion - removal of 1+ nucleotides Duplication - a gene can be duplicated Translocation - a gene can be placed under the control of another promoter Inversion - can have weird and interesting effects, but does appear to occur regularly Transformation/Conjugation - prokaryotes sharing genes or groups of genes Infection/Transduction - the integration of a viral genome - which can then be adapted to other purposes - see ERVs If I define 'information' as the number of functional genes in a species population's genome, then there are numerous ways that information increases. A gene is duplicated, mutates, is placed under the control of a different promoter so it is used for a different function. Very common if you believe the DNA evidence - but somehow I don't think you do. :laugh: Go BLAST it for yourself and see.

- F

[73Zeppelin]

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Point to lie before uttering one at least please

Perhaps "misrepresentation" is more appropriate. It was you suggesting Ravel was speaking about me. Forget it, it's not important.

[Oakman]

Fisticuffs wrote:

If I define 'information' as the number of functional genes in a species population's genome, then there are numerous ways that information increases. A gene is duplicated, mutates, is placed under the control of a different promoter so it is used for a different function.

Are you trying to confuse them with FACTS? :confused:

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

[soap brain]

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Oh believe me I understand it very well, that's the whole point, random, undirected, arbitrary, stochastic, probabalistic and therefore destructive to a non random, useful, structured information set.

Not necessarily. Pathogens evolve a resistance to antibiotics.

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Which does not add information only increases the rate at which it is copied and thereby damaged, increase the solar activity and you get more rapid de-evolution [Smile]

:confused: Nah. Anyway, the sun DOES communicate information. For example, it is yellow. But anyway, heat increases the rate of chemical reactions, but energy != heat.

Matthew Faithfull wrote:

Instead of assuming I don't understand basic scientific terms becuase that's easy, you should perhaps, as I said, set aside some time in your busy life to find out for yourself whether evolution is scientific or a dangerous pseudo religious delusion. ( Hint: asking someone subject to the delusion isn't going to teach you anything, try going about it scientifically [Big Grin] )

Evolution is very scientific. How isn't it? What I know about it is vastly different to the messed up picture you and Ilion like to paint of it. In fact, what you describe bears virtually no resemblance to Natural Selection.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

[Matthew Faithfull]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

how would that agree with the Bible?

In a word, completely. Of course you'd have to read quite a bit of the Bible to see that. For example the biblical perspective is that nature itself, i.e. physics, biology the whole works, was corrupted from its previous perfection at the fall, tainted with sin. The wages of sin, i.e. its long term outcome, is death. The working out of this principle can be seen in the laws of thermodynamics. The universe itself is running down to an end point already determined, the appointed day or 'the great and terrible day of the Lord' as it is described. The Bible is not a science text book but there is nothing false in it as there is nothing false in its author and therefore no disagreement with reality or with any honest scientific observation. To me de-evolution seems to fit entirely with what it says but if it turns out not be so then my de-evolutionary theory is flawed not Bible. The author of the universe knows best how it works and how to live in it.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[Matthew Faithfull]

73Zeppelin wrote:

Forget it, it's not important.

I'd be happy to. I did cehck carefully that his post was in reply to you rather than me as it was otherwise ambiguous.

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[Lost User]

Oakman wrote:

Are you trying to confuse them with FACTS?

Yeah, shame on me, huh? :rolleyes: Maybe if I do this enough he'll switch to Ilion's new tactic and just claim I lie about everything.

- F

[leckey 0]

Can you really believe in an idea that resulted in a band calling themselves Devo? (You're young so I don't know if you have heard them.)

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[Matthew Faithfull]

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Pathogens evolve a resistance to antibiotics.

No, even evolutionists don't claim that. The pathogens already have within their populations a proportion that are immune due to genetic variations. When you look into how these immunities actually work you find they usually fall into the catagery of de-evolutionary specialisations, for example having damaged protiens causing slower metabolism making them more tolerant of toxins. On the scale of microbes the functioanlities are simple enough and the information density of the genomes low enough that an occassional functional novelty can appear, some of these have been documented. This however doesn't change the fact that a bacteria remains a bacteria and can't ever become anything else. It can't grow legs because the set of information required for legs is too large complex and interrelated to come about through truly random changes. Survival of the fitest doesn't help because having half the genes for a leg doesn't make you any fitter than having none of them and in a small genome has a very high probability of meaning something else gets damaged or lost that you do need to survive. As I've said many times, in practice, the mechanisms proposed by biologists to cause evolution, don't. They cause de-evolution.

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Evolution is very scientific. How isn't it?

It does not follow the scientific method of proposing an idea, attempting to falsify it and on succeeding replacing it with a better idea. It rather follows the path of false religions everywhere, propose an idea, reinterpret everything in relation to that idea ( hence evolutionary biology ), especially any contrary evidence and when the idea is still clearly nonsense replace it on the quiet with another while denying having done so, hence Stan's pathetic attempt to define evolution as anything that happens to genes. :doh:

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

[leckey 0]

I would maybe listen to someone who claims evolution never happened if they were atheist.

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[Matthew Faithfull]

The Central Limit theorum contradicts basic arithmetic, it's a fudge invented by an alchemist who couldn't fully express his own insight. Also as a theorum it proves nothing but you already knew that being so smart. The Law of Large Numbers is a new one on me, is that like large numbers follow exactly the same rules as small numbers because size is a matter of human perception and has no relevance in mathematics? Maybe if you give a reasonable answer I'll let you into the secret of how to count the Real numbers :laugh:

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)