Re: Evolution & Identity of the ID designer

From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 17:47:07 EST

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    Michael

    In my post I asked for a
    definition of the THEORY of
    evolution and you have not
    provided one. Do you
    understand what I asked for? I
    did not ask for a list of
    things having to do with YEC.
    You seem to be actively
    avoiding a response to the
    question. (This is no
    surprise, since I have yet to
    meet someone who will stick
    his/her neck out.) It is easy
    to criticize others, not so
    easy to defend your own
    opinion.

    For example, Darwin suggested
    that THEORY is that evolution
    (right up through mankind) has
    taken place by :

    1.) Natural Selection
    (survival of the fittest)

    and

    2.) Constant mutation by
    various random processes

    Would you subscribe to that?
    If not, what is your version
    of the theory? In either case,
    what would you offer for
    falsification criteria (I say
    "falsify", not support)

    Walt

    Can't get rid of this yucky
    green stuff.

    Michael Roberts wrote:

    > Of course it is a list of
    > things which if demonstrable
    > will conclusively refute
    > evolution.Hence all the
    > silly arguments about
    > proving a young
    > earth Michael
    >
    > ----- Original
    > Message -----
    > From:
    > RFaussette@aol.com
    > To:
    > michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk
    > ;
    > wallyshoes@mindspring.com
    > ; gmurphy@raex.com
    > Cc:
    > hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com
    > ; asa@calvin.edu
    > Sent: Sunday,
    > December 01, 2002
    > 4:16 PM
    > Subject: Re:
    > Evolution &
    > Identity of the ID
    > designer
    > In a message
    > dated 12/1/02
    > 9:39:10 AM Eastern
    > Standard Time,
    > michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk
    > writes:
    >
    >
    >
    > > Evolution is
    > > easily
    > > falsifiable.
    > > 1.) Find human
    > > fossils in the
    > > mid-Tertiary or
    > > earlier
    > > 2.) Find
    > > palaeozoic
    > > mammals
    > > 3) Precambrian
    > > vertebrates.
    > > 4) A young or a
    > > youngish earth
    > > i.e less than
    > > 100 million -
    > > consider what
    > > Kelvin nearly
    > > did to evolution
    > > after 1860
    > > 5)0 our DNA
    > > more like
    > > insects than
    > > rats
    > >
    > > We could go on.
    > >
    > > Hasn't anyone
    > > got the skill to
    > > falsify
    > > evolution on
    > > these points
    > >
    > > Michael
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    > michael,
    > You've posted a
    > list - how does
    > your list falsify
    > evolution?
    > rich
    >

    --
    ===================================
    

    Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>

    In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)

    You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton)



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