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Creation Vs Evolution

#441 User is offline   Morgoth 

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Posted 20 February 2007 - 10:40 PM

mm..

I love the human race.. You know they feared that turning on the cern thingy could create a tiny black hole..

Much like how Heisenberg pointed out that it was a possible that the first test of a nuklear weapon could ignite the atmosphere and kill all life
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Posted 20 February 2007 - 10:54 PM

maybe its just a really slow process. Might explain global warming
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Posted 20 February 2007 - 11:17 PM

As if we needed more explaination.
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Posted 21 February 2007 - 12:57 AM

methinks that some of you missed DW's point :)
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Posted 21 February 2007 - 09:17 AM

no we got it. were just bored
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Posted 22 February 2007 - 02:25 PM

There was a point?
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Posted 22 February 2007 - 03:26 PM

Morgoth;161072 said:

mm..

I love the human race.. You know they feared that turning on the cern thingy could create a tiny black hole..



I've been to CERN on a physics trip and somebody asked whether that would happen when they tried to find the Higgs Boson in the new accelerator. What a dunce. It's a huge thing though, and the amount of construction going on was unbelievable. The woman scientist taking us round did comment though that they were a little worried about not finding it, because theyd have to question their entire theory. Be interesting to see what happens.
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Posted 23 February 2007 - 11:17 AM

Well, how can they be certain this experiment should show it? Perhaps we're not nearly advanced enough to detect it. Or perhaps the theory is somehow a bit off. Not finding it does not invalidate the theory, IMO. But they might come up with a different theory that also confirms the experiments, we did in the past.
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 01:51 PM

"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."

(Charles Darwin 1872)

Enough Said :(
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 04:58 PM

Thelomen Toblerone;161605 said:

I've been to CERN on a physics trip and somebody asked whether that would happen when they tried to find the Higgs Boson in the new accelerator. What a dunce. It's a huge thing though, and the amount of construction going on was unbelievable. The woman scientist taking us round did comment though that they were a little worried about not finding it, because theyd have to question their entire theory. Be interesting to see what happens.

I missed this the first time round, and it's kinda off topic. But you know they did find the Higgs Boson, right? Not at Cern though.
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 05:10 PM

Since when? The latest National Geographic has talked about it and so has Scientific american and they haven't mentionned any discovery of the Higgs Bosson. That's why LHC is so important. They've discovered other bossons, but not Higgs.
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 05:15 PM

Huh. I was sure they'd found it at Fermilab. I read it... somewhere:o


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Posted 04 March 2008 - 06:24 PM

? this debate was long before my time, but...
I went to a catholic hight school
They taught evolution.
Nothing in the Bible directly defies evolution.
you can be both a creationist and an evolutionist
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 09:25 PM

Tsaritsa;268610 said:

"To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree."

(Charles Darwin 1872)

Enough Said :(


Misquoting someone is a dishonest tactic. The above passage is followed by a long and clear explanation of how natural selection could have produced the eye. Note also the use of "seems". Darwin couched his conclusions in cautious language - he had to, given the times he lived in and the orthodoxies he was overturning.

I can only hope that you were not aware of the context of this quote, and simply repeated it as it had been misrepresented to you.
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Posted 04 March 2008 - 10:15 PM

DM: fixing the broken one at a time :(

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Posted 04 March 2008 - 10:17 PM

I was involved in a debate in college concerning this subject, and just grew weary of the "Creationist" I was facing and their tactics.

This whole debate is pointless to me because to believe any holy book's story of creation is to blatantly ignore anything scientific.

@DM, nice work there sir, nice work.
@Kud, I respectfully disagree.
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Posted 05 March 2008 - 12:14 AM

I was merely adding fuel to the fire with that quote.

That having been said however, I am a firm believer in both evolution and creation respectively.

No one can deny the existence of evolution. It is a fact. Life forms do evolve, either to a better state..or as humans have shown to a worse state :D

However to suggest that life on earth was formed via the theories of evolution and I repeat “theories” is all together absurd.

The absolute delicate balance in which every life form exists is not a balance which can be stuck randomly..you can throw never ending scientific technical lingo at me all you like

Bottom line is …and this bottom line which is mostly ignored is that the evolution theory is just that..a theory

The ardent pursuit of this theory by some scientists who are almost too eager to prove its validity is most alarming, as it does take on a rather fanatical tone. Is not science a study based on fact removed from emotion?

Science however at this point in time of our collective evolution cannot prove that life on Earth was initiated via a series of random occurrences

I choose to believe a force..be it god..be it santa or whomever you choose, gave us that initial nudge ..set things in motion and then from that initial creation …the evolution of the species started to take place …

Just my fiddy cents :(
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Posted 05 March 2008 - 12:22 AM

Everything you have said can be applied to gravity. Besides, you troll poorly.
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Posted 05 March 2008 - 12:23 AM

Wait, I'm confused...

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No one can deny the existence of evolution. It is a fact.

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Bottom line is …and this bottom line which is mostly ignored is that the evolution theory is just that..a theory

Are you not just completely contradicting yourself there?:confused:
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Posted 05 March 2008 - 12:26 AM

Xander;269069 said:

I was involved in a debate in college concerning this subject, and just grew weary of the "Creationist" I was facing and their tactics.

This whole debate is pointless to me because to believe any holy book's story of creation is to blatantly ignore anything scientific.

@DM, nice work there sir, nice work.
@Kud, I respectfully disagree.


Have you read "Inherit the wind?"

lol, that sums up the relationship b/w interpretation of the bible + Evlution quite nicely, imho...
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