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  • Science is debated through wee researched papers published in peer-reviewed journals. NOT on stage in 15 minute soundbites in front of a layman audience.

  • There is no debate about IF evolution happens. Debating religion is a waste of time.

    Scientific fact: Dinosaurs had feathers.

  • When extremely intelligent people come to polar opposite conclusions while looking at the same evidence, it is apparant that the difference is in their worldviews/frameworks, not in empical science. Still, evolutionists refuse to agknowledge the fact that they themselves interperate evidence through their own ideologies which they accept on a basis of faith. They invent self-serving rules for what "real science" is and isn't. They only except naturalistic explanations for phillosophical reasons.

  • @xXTheRatXx *empirical

  • @xXTheRatXx uh no, the reason we accept evolution is because it is the ONLY explanation for the variety of life supported by evidence, period.

  • @xXTheRatXx

    "When extremely intelligent people come to polar opposite conclusions while looking at the same evidence, it is apparant that the difference is in their worldviews/frameworks, not in empical science. Still, evolutionists refuse to agknowledge the fact that they themselves interperate..."

    - incorrect, the differnce between these is that evolution is a conclusion reached through subjecting evidence to science (the most effective mechanism for identifying what is true)

  • @xXTheRatXx Correct, Science does not use magic, voodoo or supernatural beings. Scientists are of all religions, they have bias towards their favorite theories and fudge the data, they are only human. That is why there is peer review. Religion knows the answers from the start, so you only look for evidence that supports your stories.

  • The fact the scientist don't want to enter a 3-ring circus does not discredit them. These people are scientists not hucksters. Its not about who wins a debate directed to an audience who doesn't understand the science, it’s about who has the real science. We can be deceived by people or we can take it upon ourselves to learn about evolution. It's amazing how quickly it becomes apparent that this so called creation science has no right to be taught anywhere as science. Learn the truth.

  • @b991228 Thank you.

    Find the love of God here.

    Audio, Gospel of John Chapter 1 AV h t t p://w w wDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=Ao4u­aIjd3xs

  • EUGENIE C. SCOTT knows that you can't educate a creatard in one debate. Nothing you show them will change their minds because they are brainwashed. There is no debate, evolution has been proven.

    @4:28 ''easily shot down by non scientists.''

    THEN WHY CAN'T YOU PROVE EVOLUTION WRONG ??????

  • @gregrutz First dino 'blood' extracted from ancient bone

    A hadrosaur bone buried for 80 million years has yielded a mix of proteins and microstructures resembling cells that may help shed light on dinosaur evolution. Doesn't appear to be a creationist site. BTW, how do know what constitutes a Christian? Also a debate is not for education but to show which side has the facts and wins. Cluck

  • @BereanBeacon1 Wins what? Evolution is studied in every Biology class. Scientists won.

    A CHRISTian is someone who thinks Jesus CHRIST died for our sins.

    Yes, they are finding more in the FOSSILS [rock not bone] they they could have imagined, the fossil is still 70 Million years old and dinosaurs evolved for 160 Million years.

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "A hadrosaur bone buried for 80 million years has yielded a mix of proteins and microstructures resembling cells "

    Notice how there's no mention of actual blood being obtained from the fossil. It also still states that the fossil is 80 million years old.

    "Also a debate is not for education but to show which side has the facts and wins. "

    Debates are usually only showcases for the rhetorical skills of the participants. Science is done in the peer-reviewed literature.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Video titles:

    Green River Formation Fossil Has Original Soft Tissue

    Ancient Dinosaur Blood (68,000,000 Years)

    Fossil Fraud Embarrasses Scientists

    Scientist Draws With Extinct Squid Ink

    AMBER EXPOSES EVOLUTION

    Evolution: The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

    Fantastic Australian Amber Supports Young World

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Video titles"

    I don't feel like trudging through video after video of creationist pandering. Point me to articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and I will look into it.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer You cannot understand because you are spiritually dead and love darkness.

    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Corinthians 2:14

    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "You cannot understand because you are spiritually dead and love darkness."

    Ad hominem attacks! How cute! And since you're still spewing Bible verses, I have a nice one for you from the Bhagavad Gita, which I think fits you like a glove:

    Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. Psalm 104:33

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Psalm 104:33"

    Lessee. Ah, here's a nice one:

    "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - Buddha

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Abigail Sings Scripture Play List - h t t p://w w wDOTyoutubeDOTcom/view_play_li­st?p=34B22E9C0526344F

  • @BereanBeacon1

    So you're not even TRYING to come up with any arguments anymore. What is one to think of someone who starts posting irrelevant quotes from their favorite religious text and links to totally unrelated videos? The only proper response is contempt, mixed with a good dose of pity. I, sir, salute you for representing creationists in all their splendor.

    Have a nice day!

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer You have the words of death and I have the words of life.

    For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

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  • @BereanBeacon1 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

    And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

  • Science is not determined through debates. If creationists think they have anything worthwhile to add to the scientific body of knowledge they should publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals. You know, like all scientists have to do.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Evolutionists are determined by how they run to the hen house. No one is allowed to even question their science fiction and so peer review is just another straw man from their Lame Excuse Handbook. Cluck, cluck.

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Evolutionists are determined by how they run to the hen house."

    No, SCIENTISTS have done so. We simply don't have the time and energy to give every runaway idea equal attention. Scientists therefore have established a set of rules, of which the most important is: provide evidence for your claims. If you can't: sorry, try again. It's a rough and tough process, but it's one that WORKS. Deal with it.

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "All evolutionists have is hot air on the mostly anonymous Internet. "

    Evolutionary biologists publish their findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals with names attached. You can look up their articles easily.

    "You can evolve from a chicken"

    That's the dumbest bullshit I have heard in a long while. You don't seem to grasp even the most basic concepts of evolution.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Your evolution is science fiction and that's why you don't dare debate it in a science controlled public forum. We grasp real science as you do, then evolutionists slip in their science fiction as a sleazy salesman using the bate and switch technique.

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Your evolution is science fiction"

    Then it's science fiction with a massive amount of evidence in its favor.

    "We grasp real science"

    Nobody can say stuff like "evolve from a chicken" and still maintain that they grasp science.

    "sleazy salesman using the bate and switch technique. "

    Give one example. ONE.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Wiki does it all the time. They present real science and then science fiction.

    Science Fiction:

    Complex eyes appear to have first evolved within a few million years, in the rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian explosion. There is no evidence of eyes before the Cambrian, but a wide range of diversity is evident in the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale.

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  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Wiki does it all the time. "

    Who cares? Wikipedia is not a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

    "Complex eyes appear to have first evolved within a few million years"

    Complex eyes have evolved several times over in very different organisms. So what?

    "no evidence of eyes before the Cambrian"

    Precursors to complex eyes may have existed, like light-sensitive patches of skin. Either way, the Pax-6 gen, dealing with eye development, was likely already present BEFORE the Cambrian.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Evolution:

    I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. Isaiah 66:4

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "Isaiah 66:4"

    Bible verses are irrelevant. 

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer "But precursors to more complex eyes may have existed," is conjecture and does not fit in the definition of science.

    Science fiction: specimen is hundreds of millions years old.

    This is real science.

    First dino 'blood' extracted from ancient bone h t t p://w w wDOTnewscientistDOTcom/article­/dn17060-first-dino-blood-extr­acted-from-ancient-boneDOThtml

  • @BereanBeacon1

    "is conjecture "

    No, it's determined from comparing modern jellyfish with fossilized ones, among others.

    "First dino 'blood' extracted from ancient bone"

    h t t p://w w wDOTtalkoriginsDOTorg/faqs/din­osaur/bloodDOThtml

    Stop getting your information from creationist sites only. 

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer palaeontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University is a creationist?

  • @BereanBeacon1 No, Mary is a Christian Paeontologist. She is upset with people misusing her work and lying about what she said. She knows the dinosaur fossil is 70 million years old. She works with fossils every day. She is an ''evolutionist''.

  • @gregrutz So, NewScientist is a Christian site and the writer lied? Mary is calling Jesus Christ a liar, not that you would care.

  • incidently .. have you already found any answers addressing and explaining the following observations:

    a. Human chromosome 2

    b. The distribution of ERV's in the primate chromosomes

    c. Ring species/speciation

    I can, of course, add other observations. Such as, but not limited to, the whale limbs and attached muscle distribution, Tiktaalik, the human tail and attached muscles, and much, much more. But let's not do the Gish Gallop and leave it at these first three (a through c, see above).

  • @wimahlers but none of these observations go to the central claim of the Theory of Evolution, that is that Random Mutations acted on by non-random Natural Selection is what produced what we observe is the field biology from biochemical pathways and, on through, organelles, specialised cells, organs, systems, various limbs, instincts and the different classes, and even consciousness etc. So can you produce a list of observations supporting the actual theory

  • @allan3141,

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    "So can you produce a list of observations supporting the actual theory"

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    Yes!

    Otherwise it would not be a scientific theory. To name one to start with: Ring species.

    What is your explanation for ring species?

  • @wimahlers (1) Hi thank you for your reply. I have no problem with ring species in principle. Indeed it’s surprising when it doesn't happen. The explanation given is the two groups have been genetically isolated for so long that their genomes have become so out of phase that viable recombination is no longer possible. But even taking this as red with no quibbles ......Cont…

  • @wimahlers Cont…(2) this hardly seems strong evidence that Random Mutations acted on by Non-random Natural Selection can in principle produce, in time, complete new biochemical pathways, organelles, specialised cells, new organs, systems, classes, instincts and indeed consciousness. Have you got any examples more pertinent to these issues?

  • @allan3141,

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    "this hardly seems strong evidence that Random Mutations acted on by Non-random Natural Selection can in principle produce, in time, complete new biochemical pathways, organelles, specialised cells, new organs, systems, classes, instincts and indeed consciousness".

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    And indeed it did, does and will continue to do so. A good example is the ape called "Homo sapien". Proof for a common ancestry see: human chromosome 2 and the ERV distribution within the primates.

  • @wimahlers (1a) but you have again given evidence in support of The Theory of Common Descent and not for the Theory as to what 'drives' it (the mechanism.) I thought you had understood that that is what I was asking for and that I had made that clear. Cont….

  • @wimahlers (2a) I am asking for a list of observations, empirical findings, facts, data, indeed any category of evidence that justify claiming, that the hypothesis, that Random Mutations acted on by Non-random Natural Selection is what produced all the things claimed of it (and that it set itself to explaining,) is a well established Scientific Theory. I trust my question is clear. If not, I am happy to elaborate.

  • @allan3141,

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    "am asking for a list of observations, empirical findings, facts, data, indeed any category of evidence"

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    Human chromosome 2 is an observation, empirical finding, fact, data, indeed a category of evidence.

    The distribution of ERV's within the primates is an observation, empirical finding, fact, data, indeed a category of evidence.

    And so is - see tinyurl(dot)com/3r6jr2 an observation, empirical finding, fact, data, indeed a category of evidence.

    There you have it!

  • @wimahlers (1c) Hi Wim, we seem to be misunderstanding each other. So can I clarify an issue? Do you accept that there is a distinction between The Theory of Common Descent (ancestry), and theories as to what mechanism(s) drove that ancestry? I not discussing Common Descent, I am assuming that is true. I am trying to discuss the modern theory of the mechanism under neo-Darwinism. Cont…

  • @allan3141

    And talking about facts, fact is that creationists have no model at all. No explanation for anything (other than "goddidit"). And despite, crying wolf, have absolutely not a single argument that falsifies even a minor detail of the current evolution theory. All these facts creationists try to hide by ignoring the overwhelming evidence that is there, quote mining, distortions, out right lies, and the ever boring "not (good) enough" excuse. Even though they have no theory themselves.

  • @allan3141,

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    "Do you accept that there is a distinction between The Theory of Common Descent (ancestry), and theories as to what mechanism(s) drove that ancestry?"

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    No! I don't know what you mean by that. Accept that common descent is an observation, therefore a fact. As such it is not very interesting. What is interesting is the explanation of this fact. That is described by the evolution theory. Sure, there are more mechanisms known now then in Darwin's time. But that is just details.

  • @wimahlers (2c) Of course HC2 and ERV’s are great observations; but not of what I asked about. Unless you can explain how, say, ERV’s are strong support for the proposed mechanism of neo-Darwinism? I of course accept Lenski’s work IS in the area I am talking about. (If you reply could you please continue to post after my very last comment so as not to jumble up the conversation and make it un-followable?)

  • @allan3141,

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    "Unless you can explain how, say, ERV’s are strong support for the proposed mechanism of neo-Darwinism?.

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    ERV's indeed strongly support the evolution theory. Indeed, if the pattern would have been (just about) anything else it would actually have falsified the evolution theory.

    Ironically creationists often refer, how boring, to the Piltdown man fraud. But creationists must realize that if the Piltdown man was for real it would actually have falsified(!) common descent!

  • @wimahlers (1d) Wim you introduce a host of things having nothing to do with what I have said nor asked; and in fact ignore, as if I had not said them, things I have made every effort to make clear. Your reply is completely at odds with what *I* have said to you. Cont....

  • @wimahlers …(2d) I certainly have not got clarity with regard to my question, "Do you accept that there is a distinction between The Theory of Common Descent (ancestry), and theories as to what mechanism(s) drove that ancestry?" For although you answer with an emphatic "No!" you then immediately follow with, "I don't know what you mean by that." And go on, in contradiction to your “No!” to make a distinction. Cont..

  • @wimahlers (3d) In any case, I have informed you clearly, and in numerous ways, and on a number of occasions, that I am NOT talking about Common Descent; but you still reply about Common Descent. You must see that that might be found a tad frustrating by me. Cont..

  • @allan3141

    "I am NOT talking about Common Descent; but you still reply about Common Descent. "

    Evolution is ALL about common descent. If you leave that out, then what the heck are you talking about? Shared ERVs in the genome of humans and chimpanzees shows they both share a common ancestor. It's evidence for evolution, pure and simple.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer "Evolution is ALL about common descent. If you leave that out, then what the heck are you talking about?" Of course it isn't. The idea of Common Descent and the Mechanism that drives it are two very different concepts. Even Darwin said so in his "An Historical Sketch." You are certainly confused; since the Theory Common Descent is not even Darwin's idea, but precedes him and this is well documented. His theory is a theory of mechanism. As is neo-Darwinism properly understood.

  • @allan3141

    "The idea of Common Descent and the Mechanism that drives it are two very different concepts. "

    All life forms are related because of descent with modification. They are two sides of the same coin.

    "Even Darwin said so"

    What Darwin said is totally irrelevant to modern evolutionary science, which marched on in the 150 years since then.

    "is not even Darwin's idea"

    So what?

    "His theory is a theory of mechanism"

    Which explains how common descent is possible.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer "So what?" Because that alone is indicative of the vast difference to which I refer. And your next comment (namely 'Which explains how common descent is possible') also recognises this difference. I am not talking about the old version of the Theory and I made that plain, I am talking about the modern formulation. I mentioned Darwin only to show that Darwin's original theory, and is modern version, are theories of the mechanism.

  • @allan3141

    "Because that alone is indicative of the vast difference to which I refer. "

    Squabbling over what Darwin man said is totally useless. His work is only of historical interest and of no relevance anymore to modern biology.

    "theories of the mechanism."

    Descent with modification is the mechanism, common descent is its effect. What's so hard to understand about this?

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer "Descent with modification is the mechanism, common descent is its effect" Modification is the mechanism! So what is the mechanism of the modification: and the answer to that question finally beings us to the actual theory. I am trying to discuss that; both with you, and with the previous poster. The distinction is clear, it is not me that is failing to understand. The very same point was made by Lynn Margulis as recently as April this year.

  • @allan3141

    "the actual theory."

    Honestly, you have totally lost me. What "actual theory" are you talking about? If it's evolutionary theory, it's the change over time in one or more inherited traits found in populations of organisms. Then there's universal common descent, which, of course, occurs through the previously mentioned changes of inherited traits. There's ample evidence for any of these, so what exactly is your problem?

  • @MomoThe (1) "What 'actual theory' are you talking about?" The theory that innovations (New specialised cells, organelles, tissues, organs, limbs, systems, classes, instincts, and even consciousness and ecosystems) are the product of Non Random Natural Selection acting on Random Mutations. Your "it's the change over time in one or more inherited traits *FOUND* in populations of organisms" formulation skirts over the main issue and is a bit light on detail for a serious scientific theory. Cont

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  • @allan3141

    "The theory that innovations (New specialised cells, organelles, tissues, organs, limbs, systems, classes, instincts, and even consciousness and ecosystems) are the product of Non Random Natural Selection acting on Random Mutations"

    No such theory exists. Evolution is not about "innovations". It's about change. It can mean that features might be gained, or that they might be lost, or that they get a whole new function. You're fighting a straw man.

  • @MomoTheBellyDancer Cont (2) In what really explanatory sense is, say, the dorsal fin of a whale an inherited trait or “found”? How readily is a plausible explanation yielded by neo-Darwinism? And how testable is that explanation anyway? And this is assuming, and not questioning, that in fact a land based mammal (be it cow, bear, or dog like, or whatever) did transition into a whale. Non of those creatures has a dorsal fin.

  • @allan3141

    "How readily is a plausible explanation yielded by neo-Darwinism? "

    New features are the result of slow accumulation of changes. It's a process that builds on what is already there, which also applies to dorsal fins of dolphins.

    "how testable is that explanation anyway?"

    You look for a sequence of organisms with gradually adapted features, of which many have been found.

    (cont ...)

  • @allan3141

    "And this is assuming (...) that in fact a land based mammal (...) did transition into a whale."

    The evolution of whales is very well documented and there's no excuse for you not to know about it.

    "Non of those creatures has a dorsal fin."

    Actually, dorsal fins were present in most species of whale, although some species lost it again. You might also take note that several species of sea organisms developed distinct dorsal fins independently, like sharks.

  • @wimahlers (4d) I asked you a precise question, "can [you] explain how ERV’s are strong support for the proposed mechanism of neo-Darwinism?" You reply, "ERV's indeed strongly support the evolution theory" and go on to speak about common descent and about "Darwin's time," but I clearly asked about neo-Darwinism and specifically NOT about common descent. Cont..

  • @allan3141

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    "neo-Darwinism"

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    I have no comments on darwinism or neo-darwinism, the modern synthesis or any particular historical labelling. Those labels are utterly unimportant other than referrring to specific scientific refinements in time.

    Again, "the theory of common descent" is incorporated in the current theory of evolution. In fact "the theory of common descent" describes the mechanisms of this common descent. So, again, No! There is no distinction. Again, what do you mean?

  • @allan3141 I still have no idea what you are fishing at with your usage of the label "neo-darwinism". But perhaps you are going to explain that now. I claim the following:

    1. Creationist have no vialbe alternative scientific explanation equal to or surpassing the explanatory power of the current evolution theory.

    2. There currently is not a single scientifically relevant claim that falsifies the evolution theory.

    3. Every naturalistic discovery made in the past centuries confirms evolution.

  • @allan3141,

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    "I asked you a precise question, "can [you] explain how ERV’s are strong support for the proposed mechanism of neo-Darwinism?"

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    The distribution of ERV's within the primate species is the explanation.

    If you do not understand that than it follows that you do not know what ERV's are. Do you know what ERV's are and do you understand that the distribution of the ERV's in the primate gene pool is explained by common descent?

    If you think not than please motivate why not.

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  • @wimahlers

    Errata:

    Before somebody mention it ... the term:

    Homo sapien

    Must, of course, be:

    Homo sapiens

    (or Homo sapiens sapiens, if you prefer to reference the latest model -- us!)

  • The fact evolution consist in its basic form of the following observations:

    a. Every species produce more offspring than needed to replace itself.

    b. Not all offspring survives to procreate themselves.

    c. There is variation in the offspring.

    d. Lifeforms existed in the past for which we have found not a single living trace in the present.

    e. Lifeforms exist now for which we have found not a single trace in the past.

    Do you agree that the statements A through E above are observed facts?

  • @wimahlers Question, was the judge a scientist in the Dover trial and if not why was that acceptable?

  • @BereanBeacon1.

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    "Question, was the judge a scientist in the Dover trial and if not why was that acceptable?"

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    No! But as you so painfully explained yourself in various writings, the Dover trial was not about science but about a book and the separation of religion and state. Do you suddenly have another opinion now?

    Since I have answered all of your questions are you able to answer some of mine? To remind:

    Evolution (see A thru E), Chromosome 2, ERV's, define devolution, ring species...

  • @wimahlers No, it is a time waster to debate here.

    Did you know that all 50 states have God in their preambles?

  • @BereanBeacon1,

    You: No, it is a time waster to debate here.

    Me: I agree! Science is most definitely not a debate contest in which the best debater wins. It is based on independently verified empirical evidence. That is why I ask for the links that contains the information that explains human chromosome 2, ERV's, ring speciation, the order of the fossil layer, etc. Show me.

    You: Did you know that all 50 states have God in their preambles?

    Me: By Zeus, what has that to do with science?

    

  • @wimahlers Why didn't the states adhere to your misinterpretation of the "separation of church and state". 50 witnesses believed in the God of the Bible.

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    "Why didn't the states adhere to your misinterpretation of the "separation of church and state". 50 witnesses believed in the God of the Bible."

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    First, this has nothing to do with the subject at hand: Evoution vs. creation. Secondly, I misinterpreted nothing. It was you who referred to the Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial. And here is the judge's conclusion: tinyurl(dot)com/63km25c

    Read it! So if you think the judge misinterpreted the case than take it up with judge Jones.

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  • All evolutionists have is Internet hot air.

    the Life Science Prize rules!

  • @theinsectmanofwv ,

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    "the Life Science Prize rules!"

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    Do you agree that you are, like me, ignorant on many subjects in the field of the many dispersed independent sciences and scientific fields?

    Do you agree that it is more easily to convince one person than it is to convince many independent persons?

    Do you agree that within the sciences independent verification of a claim is a required necessity?

    How is a single non-scientific judge supposed to be and do all that? The prize is naive.

  • @theinsectmanofwv Question, was the judge a scientist in the Dover trial and if not why was that acceptable to evolutionists?

  • When do you creationists ever learn that science is not a debate.

    If you have scientific objections write a peer-reviewed scientific paper. Not a single creationists ever did. Frankly, I have not met a creationists intelligent enough to write such a paper. But feel free to challenge me on this or any scientific subject on this matter. I am not a scientists. But that really places me on your level. Because you are also not. However, I know were to find the science. You don; t..

  • @wimahlers Joseph Mastropaolo, The Life Science Prize

    I have published 22 science articles in peer reviewed science journals, one of which was entitled, An objective ancestry test for fossil bones. The Physiologist 45 (4): 343, 2002.

    That you advocate a 340-year-old superstition suggests that you are the ignorant or purposely malevolent party. Do you have any science credentials to the contrary?

    Joseph Mastropaolo, Ph.D.

    Professor Emeritus

    California State University, Long Beach

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    "Do you have any science credentials to the contrary?"

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    No, I personally have no science credentials. But it is good to finally meet a person that starts with something substantial. Now let me introduce something substantial. What can you tell about human chromosome 2? How do you explain ERV's? What is your explanation for Ensatina eschscholtzii (Ring speciation, see: watch?v=PjcFSy1KCTI)

    To name a few. All this is evidence for evolution. What evidence invalidates it?

  • @wimahlers There is no point in debating here. Come to The Life Science Prize or find an evolutionists that will debate according to scientific guide lines and earn a $1,000. If you have the evidence accept the challenge.

  • @BereanBeacon1,

    I consider such prizes rather suspicious. Like the Kent Hovind $250,000 prize. Sofar I haver never found an independent commission behind these so called prizes. But, perhaps, in your case I am judgmental based on previous experiences. So, who decides I meet the challenge?

  • @BereanBeacon1,

    As to my claim, not a single creationists ever wrote a peer-reviewed scientific paper, I am just curious, by whom was your paper reviewed? And what was the scientific response and counter response?

    How do you reconcile or counter your conclusion with the following study? See tinyurl(dot)com /6cxyrcw

    As to your paper, I find two references questionable. Sarfati+Oxnard. Perhaps you are not aware of some scientific criticism, for example tinyurl(dot)com /6kth864

  • @BereanBeacon1,

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    "If you have the evidence accept the challenge"

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    Evidence for evolution, as mentioned before:

    a. Human chromosome 2

    b. ERV;s

    c. Ring species/speciation

    Want more? I have more.

  • @BereanBeacon1,

    It seems to me that you are not a scientists. Because no honest scientists will let a judge decide on science. But I am willing to take your bet given some reeasonable conditions. Such as:

    a. That you scientifically define the term "devolution".

    b. Find a judge who has practical scientific experiences in the subject related sciences.

    c. Since science is not based on the judgement of one person, let the verdict be scrutinized by mutiple independent scientific sources.

  • @wimahlers Too many conditions and so another name added to the debate dodgers list.

  • I am not too chicken to avoid  making my name known.

    Even 5 year olds know when someone has all hot air.

    Nice to know you are fixated on me. Get a life.

    Bye!

  • LOL- Got the attention of the incredulous Mr. Priest! With NOT ONLY his less-than-witty "Hot Air" remark again BUT ALSO a mention on the life-science prize. OMG!!!!!!

    I've told you before the reason it'll be a cold day across the River Styx before you get anyone to waste there time on your game-ending Life Science prize.

    You may not have time to answer every wild comment, but you did have time to waste on the useless video. Did it contain any evidence actually refuting evolutionary theory?

  • All true believers in evolutionism wnat is hot air Intenet discussion.  The Life Science Prize has proven they have no science. Dr. Mastopaolo has called their bluff.

    Creationists don't have the time to answer every wild comment posted on YouTube.

  • @theinsectmanofwv And reputable scientists, who have actually more important things to do (e.g. doing actual research), don't have the time to answer every debate challenge uttered by some unimportant creationist like Mastropaolo. He's like a skinny guy in the audience of a boxing match, who screams "I challenge you!" at the champion under the general noise of the audience and then claims victory, when he's ignored. Pathetic.

  • Call it whatever you want- goofy, a lie, darwinism, the monster under the stairs, the story of life on our planet- doesn't change what it is. A very - very - well supported scientific theory.

    You keep screaming there's so much against evolution, but you never say WHAT that is (other than "the bible tells me so").

    No one is suppressing your freedom of speech- just looks like a lot of folks think what you are saying isn't worth the wasted pixels on their screen.

  • @BereanBeacon1

    You mean you won't block comments because you wouldn't be able to see the ones from those who are as misguided and delusional as yourself telling you that everything you say makes perfect sense?

    Mebbe/mebbe not- YouTube understands that the interwebz (which it is a part of) may contain a lot of garbage. Since it would be counterproductive to its profit margins to allow users to vote your ignorance promoting videos into oblivion. It allows stupid comments to suffer that fate.=]

  • That Priest/Mastropaolo/Chessstick fellow.... I can tell when he's thinking hard- anyone else hear the sizzling in the audio.

    I'm guessing the actual video was changed out for these goofy pictures and animations because you knew no one would take this blowing smoke seriously.

  • Could Mr Priest please stop saying "Eugenics Scott?" That is extremely, extremely vulgar.

  • @thud0

    Its the simple minds.... they come up with something witty and have to say it over and over and over (and over, and over, and over)- Makes them feel better about perpetuating ignorance. =]

  • lucfer world. and he out to kill all who let him. thats man souls. Yeshua,Jesus will have the last word. sadly many do fall with out thinking.

  • It's very evident that the Evolutionist purpose is to use science to keep the "Divine foot out of the door". A statement made by one of their own. "we must keep the Divine foot out of the door, at all cost.". They hate creationist exposing the straw-man consistency of their materialist paradigm. A worldview that is a necessity for protecting their position and standing in society. If the existence of God is made official, they are delegated to the bottom of the heap.

  • @Howie47 t's very evident that the Evolutionist purpose is to use science to keep the "Divine foot out of the door".

    You're taking it personal, *no* supernatural explanation is allowed in science, whether it's yours, Zeus or the flying spaghetti monster.

    'A worldview that is a necessity for protecting their position and standing in society'

    Methodological naturalism is a methodology, not a worldview, and it's a necessity for usefully understanding reality.

  • @TheScienceFoundation It's the Divine foot kept out of science, which just happens to conveniently correspond to the atheist secular world view. And what pray tell is your definition of super natural? Any thing that can't or hasn't been explained by "M.N."? No one on earth knows were the line between natural & supernatural is. People like you pretend to be "know it alls" that have it all figured out. Your real science stoppers. With "it all has to fit our preconceived paradigm." Hypocrites!

  • @Howie47 it corresponds with methodological naturalism because science is an inductive process, that means positive evidence for positive claims, not just jamming supernatural being X in a gap because it can't be disproven.

    'And what pray tell is your definition of super natural?'

    Anything that is by definition untestable and unable to be held to constant certain variables.

  • @TheScienceFoundation LOL, you make me laugh! Scientist make claims, "consider Hawking's recent junk",

    which has NO evidence, positive or neg. Just like many, theories (Darwinism) they just jam supernatural happenings into a creator-less paradigm. There are many many observations that can't be held to constant certain variables. All you people do is cherry pick what you want to be super natural and what you proclaim is scientific. Your not scientist. Your thought police!

  • @Howie47 'Your real science stoppers. With "it all has to fit our preconceived paradigm."'

    Within the realm of methodological naturalism is the only way science could function, if we were to pretend any magical 'explanation' is a legitimate theoretical model then science would grind to a halt as unfalsifiable claims just poured in.

  • @TheScienceFoundation You guys suggest magic all the time. Yet a creator who would be infinitely more intelligent then man. Would only SEEM like a magician to the heathen. You never noticed that Darwinism is unfalsifiable? There isn't even any alternative hypothesis allowed. That would falsify it. Are you really blind to how hypocritical your talk is? God operates within very set variables. That's why some people end up going to hell. They won't listen to the causes and effects.

  • @Howie47 'Yet a creator who would be infinitely more intelligent then man'

    That could only result in either infinite regress or special pleading, both fallacies.

    'You never noticed that Darwinism is unfalsifiable'

    You can't notice something that isn't true, find an amphibian more genetically similar to a mammal than any other amphibian, evolution would be falsified.

    'There isn't even any alternative hypothesis allowed.'

    No, There isn't even any alternative hypothesis evidenced.

  • @Howie47 'It's not infinite regress nor is it special pleading'

    You're invoking an even more complex entity to explain observed complexity, what other possible ramification is there?

    'I.D. has a perfectly good scientific theory'

    ID doesn't even have a valid hypothesis, it jumps from observation to conclusion through bare assertion.

  • @Howie47 In the time it took me to come here from my email I could've researched all the information my opposition has 10 times over.

    'Because you really do not want to know'

    Then present it right now, show us what the creationists have been keeping secret from the actual scientific community.

  • @Howie47 'That would falsify it'

    Which is it? Is it unfalsifiable or would an alternative hypothesis falsify it?

  • @TheScienceFoundation It is unfalsifiable because no alternative hypothesis are allowed to test it against.  A little slow on the uptake! Your supposed to be a rep. of "The Science Foundation"?

  • I like that!! I want to see more towns segregated from the progressive liberal faggots.

  • @ZmajSnoshaj I'd love to give the conservatives the south and maybe Alaska, they'd last about a year.

  • @NateWardawg Now you're just projecting, it's not 'a belief that there is no god' it's 'the lack of belief in god due to underwhelming lack of evidence'

    We don't attack you, we correct your fallacies.

  • @TheScienceFoundation "belief in god due to underwhelming lack of evidence"

    This is simply just "talk"

    There's an overwhelming amount of evidence that there is a God. There are 66 books in my Bible written by over 40 different authors and not only has it never been proven false, it's been proven true time and again despite overwhelming amounts of criticism. :)

    For instance, scoffers used to say the Bible was false because the Hittites were fictional. Instead we know "because of" the Bible :)

  • What she actually said was that creationists see debates as matters of winning public opinion and that they have no shame in flinging mountains of fallacy in order to 'win' the favor of the crowd.

  • @TheScienceFoundation This is just more from The Lame Excuse Handbook. In The Life Science Prize courtroom "fallacies" would not be allowed and a judgment would be based on just the "facts". Contact Joe Mastropaolo for details, his credentials and peer review articles. Evolutionists cannot allow the "crowd" to know.

  • @BereanBeacon1 In the scientific peer review not only are fallacies found out in a brutal process of scrutiny, but if anyone were to present evidence against such a well founded theory as evolution there's no way they would be denied a Nobel prize

    So in your challenge, replace 'evolutionists' with 'creationists' 'life science prize courtroom' with scientific peer review

    and

    $10,000 with Nobel Prize

  • also why dont these guys tell the truth?parts,not all,but parts have been proven true in evolution,not to mention the mapping of the human genome which gives further credibility to evolution.And unlike most if not all christian claims that evolution promotes and therefore undermines their claim to a god,it doesnt.Thats cosmology,a totally different science altogether and christian scolars know this yet perposly lie to further the agenda of their god,who commands you must not lie.

  • @ranchai100 It's not even cosmology that claims that there is no God. It's scripture that makes claims that are in conflict with demonstrable reality, therefore it's that scripture that, when put in context with reality, shows the claim of there being a specific described God to be wrong.

  • @garouHH thats true,1 is that bats are birds,which is incorrect and a whole slew of others.

  • @ranchai100 and did you know that Charles Darwin said in his own words "If anyone finds any evidence that goes against my theory it would all fall apart" or something like that and we've found tons of things like that, but I especially like you to find them

  • @Vlaxerman343 but your evidence is not evidence.also when science finds that a theory is wrong they admit it,christians dont.And yes darwin was wrong on many things regarding evolution because he lacked the technology to show him this.some of what is now known didnt even occur to darwin at that time,such as the mapping of the human genome proving that the majority of evolution is indeed correct.

  • @ranchai100 and i'm not saying it was wrong it was just an interesting fact, and hundreds of years later with better technology we have even less evidence with it than what we did back when people were just coming upt with the hypothesis of evolution

  • @Vlaxerman343 my apologies friend,I misunderstood what you were saying.sorry about that

  • @ranchai100 it's alright just so you know

  • @Vlaxerman343 also 1 fallacy in science that was believed for a long time is that we evolved from monkeys,but a number of years ago that was proven wrong,not by christians but by scientist who realized that while we do share a common ancestry with monkeys,we did not evolve from them.science in this matter proved itself wrong and corrected itself.when was the last time christians in authority did that when thay were proved wrong?never.

  • @Vlaxerman343 I fallacy is that bats are of the bird family as stated in the bible,this has been proven wrong through genetics,you cant take 1 passage of scripture and say it proves god did it,because thanyou are using circular thinking.trying to prove your point because your holy book says it is so it must be.Another is the earth being the center of the universe.You'd think that an all knowing god wouldnt have got these things wrong and would have been clear on this when he inspired the bible

  • @ranchai100 and nobody evne knew what bats were back then, so now what?

  • @Vlaxerman343 'and we've found tons of things like that'

    Such as?