Dr. berlinski fails to destroy evolution

A rebuttal by conradleviston http://www.youtube.com/user/conradleviston
to a video posted on youtube as "Dr. Berlinski destroys evolution in under 5 minutes" located here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UCo7... . It points out that Dr. Berlinski's claims are either never adequately examined, or just plain dishonest. For more on Dr. Berlinski's comments about John von Neumann, see http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/...

Credits:

All images are either public domain or by the author, except the following:

Pakicetus: Illustration by Carl Buell, and taken from http://www.neoucom.edu/Depts/Anat/Pak...

Sperm whale limb rudiment Adapted from National Geographic, November 2001, The Evolution of Whales, by Douglas H. Chadwick, Shawn Gould and Robert Clark. Re-illustrated for public access distribution by Sharon Mooney ©2006, used under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5

Indohyus by wikimedia user ArthurWeasley, after Thewissen, 2007, pencil drawing, digital coloring.

Ambulocetus: Adapted from National Geographic, November 2001, The Evolution of Whales, by Douglas H. Chadwick, Shawn Gould and Robert Clark. Re-illustrated for public access distribution by Sharon Mooney ©2006, (image may be re-distributed, under condition all original credits remain intact.)

Kutchicetus: Illustration by Carl Buell, and taken from http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/ANAT/Pak...

Protocetus by wikimedia user ArthurWeasley, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Archaeocetid skeletons by wikimedia user Thesupermat, under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Cetacean dental morphology illustration taken from "DENTAL MORPHOLOGY OF REMINGTONOCETIDAE", Journal of Paleontology 75(2):463-465

Cetacean skulls: Adapted from National Geographic, November 2001, The Evolution of Whales, by Douglas H. Chadwick, Shawn Gould and Robert Clark. Re-illustrated for public access distribution by Sharon Mooney ©2006, (image may be re-distributed, under condition all original credits remain intact.)

Cetacean tree by Felix G. Marx, University of Bristol. Images of cetacenas adapted from National Geographic's The evolution of whales by Douglas H. Chadwick, Shawn Gould and Robert Clark Re-illustrated for public access distribution by Sharon Mooney 2006. Open source licence CC ASA 2.5

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• David
• Berlinski
• cetacean
• evolution
• whale
• dolphin
• creationism
• debunked
• Discovery

[faelismaegnus]

There is no valid mechanism to account for Darwinian evolutionary theory.

[namnack]

@faelismaegnus There is no valid reason, other than having no life, to troll.

[warren52nz]

Well presented argument. How can there be any doubt?

If Evolution didn't trample on religion, it would be universally accepted. You don't see anyone questioning astronomical physics other than in a "tune up" sort of way perhaps. They don't question aerodynamics because they're happy to fly. They don't question modern medicine because their lives depend on it. But when Science shows religion is wrong, that's another thing.

So hypocritical !!! These people should live in caves to be consistent.

[namnack]

@warren52nz Well put! :)

[LowresTV]

good vid!

[benthemiester]

Before cows were thought to evolve into whales Darwin believed that bears turned into whales. By citing Von Neuman and machines building more complex machines, the poster is only citing e.g. of how machines that are intelligently designed could theoretically build more complex machines. Tails... "Horizontal like fish" (and the supposed mesonychid) they evolved from. At 4:39 the image is a false representation. I contacted Gingerich himself about this. Pakicetus is no longer considered aquatic.

[TheLogic1010]

David Berlinski is questioning Darwinism not evolution. Evolution is not in question. It's Darwins theory that's the problem.

[namnack]

@SeekingTruth1234 Girls who are half fish? That's one hell of a vagina then.

[lenda2021]

thank you