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6/10/2015 1:08:36 PM
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[quote] The greatest weakness of the theory of evolution is that science has not discovered a process that can create all the necessary information, which can be likened to the software that directs a computer. Without such a demonstrated creative process, evolution is merely a story, because its supposed mechanism can neither be duplicated in a laboratory nor observed in nature. [/quote] First of all this sounds like the age old "the eyeball is too complicated to have been produced by accident" fallacy. Secondly, this particular paragraph merely highlights natural human ignorance and limitations: it has never been produced in a lab because the process takes too long and accelerating evolution is the stuff of science fiction. It can't be observed by nature because as a species we have only been scientifically observant for the past few hundred years. Not enough time has passed for us to be able to see any of these things occur. To claim that this somehow invalidates evolution is also a fallacy, as it assumes human experience is the full measure of the universe, which is arrogant and foolish. Microevolution is acceptable to you because it takes place on human timescales, but macro isn't because it is beyond your comprehension of time; it takes place on geological time scales. We can track DNA and see how it has shaped over time by looking at DNA similarities (such as us having 98% in common with chimps), we can see in the fossil record a theme of progress over the eons in skeletal structure. There are gaps in what we know, but there is evidence there; science doesn't pretend to have all the answers. Understanding the universe is not limited the empirical senses. Chief among the animal kingdom we have the brains to extrapolate based on data, even limited data, sound conclusions. Limiting our perception to merely the 5 senses is to limit our capacity to be no more than base animals. Your God, should he be real, gave us the ability to think critically; merely saying "we haven't actually seen it with our senses" is to ignore that great gift. [quote] This Darwinism mechanism has never been shown to be capable of creating new genetic information [/quote] Google mutations, a driving force in evolution over time.
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