Evolution: Fossils, Genes, and Mousetraps (6-9)

September 27, 2006 lecture by Kenneth R. Miller, Ph.D. at HHMI headquarters for an audience of high school students from Loudon County, VA

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[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady Don't you ever get tired of pathetically dodging and running under the guise of 'They won't have a civil debate' once you've been thoroughly trounced? I mean anyone who cares to can read the discussion and see that you had yours handed to you all throughout.

[LoricaLady]

ANYONE: If you see no responses to some posters they know they are on ignore for using personal insults, false accusations, claims that they have answered Qs which they have evaded, and a general failure to actually debate. If anyone else wants to ask their same Qs and hear "the rest of the story" I will happily respond. But I do not debate where true debate is not possible, only with those who are civil & objective.

[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady Yeah what's with those 'scientists' and their ' actual knowledge of geological processes'

It's like they're trying to demonstrate that ignorance isn't an argument.

[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady You basically just spent three comment blocks to dodge the very simple question once again, while projecting your use of ad hominem attacks onto me, once again.

How...many...terrestrial...org­anisms...were...there...in...t­he...Cambrian?

[LoricaLady]

@ABriefHistoryOfTime I can't resist feeling sorry for you and telling you this one absolutely final thing. There ain't any Cambrian period. There ain't any Geologic Column. Except on paper. It's a 19th cent. concept debunked by worldwide digs. How easy for evolutionists to make excuses for that with words like "uplift" & "the earth moved". More dataless speculation presented as science. There is 0 testable, repeatable or observable about any of it.  It's their usual psuedo science. Wake up.

[LoricaLady]

@ABriefHistoryOfTime Cont. This topic is not about religion. I have said at least 2X that evo stands or falls based on science & logic alone, so your Bible Bash dance is irrelevant. I am not going to answer you Qs because (1) you never answered mine & most of all because (2) you need to learn that personal insults are antithetical to the true purposes of science & rob the dignity of those who engage in them. If you want your Qs answered get someone to ask me who can ask them with civility.

[LoricaLady]

@ABriefHistoryOfTime This will probably be the only Q. I answer for you because, again, I limit my responses to those who are civil & objective. Again, if I did not, if I kept swapping posts with those who personally insult me, name call & often use crude obscenities etc. & worse, my life would be on this keyboard & I still wouldn't have enough time. A strawman logical fallacy involves a switch from the real topic at hand - in this case evolution - to another target. Cont.

[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady So how is calling creationism invisible magic a strawman?

How many terrestrial organisms were in the Cambrian?

[LoricaLady]

@neobiognosis Oh dear. You have gone back into insult mode so you are gonig back to ignore again. For good. "More and more you reveal the limitations of your mind." This is the standard approach of evo buffs. When presented over & over with requests for actual data,not just dataless speculation & logical fallacies, they start getting insulting. Maybe you took the ad hominem route because you knew that way I'd end this? If so, it worked. Bye!

[neobiognosis]

And again, you still haven't offered any explanation as to why this intelligent designer, who designs perfect working systems such as the "irreducible complex - reducible flagellum" Would design vestigial wings on an Emu. This is something you could do that would be really impressive if it's within your powers.