Michael Shermer Jonathan Wells Evolution Debate [2 of 7]

At the CATO Institute.

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[jimbrown257]

Do you want me to tell you why our understanding of evolution (macro or micro, it is the same thing despite what convicted conman "Dr." Kent Hovind says) is the backbone of modern biology or are you a young earth creationist and completely beyond any rational discussion?

[Fishqueen1972]

@GlobalDating Since humans have used the God of the Gaps explanation throughout human history when they did not know something. It would be people like Darwin, Shermer, & people who are willing to accept naturalistic explanations or simply admitting "I don't know" who are the ones thinking outside the box. It is easy to simply say, I don't know so that means God did it.

[thewarriorsrok]

@pitziil No, anyone with some evidence will ease his skepticism slightly.

[pitziil]

A zen master with just a koan will make this guy stop being an skeptic.

[semitope]

@revo1974 Yeah, its usually said to be very powerful. Till someone with sense starts to question them one by one and reveal them as the lies they are. ?v=FwsPfspq4CQ Pretty sure you can find several more videos to enlighten yourself on this evidence

[revo1974]

@semitope

The evidence for evolution is very powerful. The evidence of living organisms popping into existence via magic is non-existent.

Theistic gods are all myths. 

[semitope]

When he says "replace it with something" he knows very well the alternative is the very thing that people seem to hate admitting.

[semitope]

Utterly disappointed in humans right now. So much rubbish in what he is saying

[semitope]

@revo1974 microevolution is not macroevolution. What you are saying is the same as me assuming, after seeing a car driving around and corner and past me, that the car drove across and ocean to get there. The only reason evolution exists is to counter the obvious evidence of God in nature. Dawkins says that, this guy said that. "Evolution has given us a way to think otherwise." this is all so damn stupid how willing people are about explaining God away that they make up BS

[revo1974]

It may be true that an intelligent agent(s) designed our Universe and there is much circumstantial evidence for this. The notion that the Universe is only six or seven thousand years old or that this agent(s) is meddling within it via magic is both absurd and baseless.

[revo1974]

@heightboosting

Has anyone EVER witnessed a living organism pop into existence via magic by god? No!

Micro evolution is macro evolution, just on a smaller time scale.

[revo1974]

@joraynas

Flew became a deist not a theist and deism is the belief in a creator(s) not necessarily a god(s). Deism suggests there is evidence for ID as in the entire Universe was intelligent.y designed, it doesn't suggest that this creator meddles within the Universe via magic.