Contingent evolution: what pushes it? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 04, 2014, 14:07 (3462 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: And they are more than happy to discard/overlook/otherwise ignore:
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• A fossil record that does not support the theory(Species show up fully formed).
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• No direct observation of ANY organism breaking the actual species boundary(in fact some proponents often change the definition of species depending on who they are debating)
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• The lack of time. (The explain it away with punctuated equilibrium)
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• That genetics has shown (repeatedly) that the phylogenetic tree is burnt up.
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• That the genome FIXES itself when mutations occur, thus undercutting the prime mechanism for evolution.
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• That mutations are, by the vast majority, harmful instead of beneficial.
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• That there are tremendous number of 'chicken and egg' scenarios that make a given adaptation useless without a prior or simultaneous mutation of one or more different species. (Flowers, Bees, Humming Birds, and Beetles)
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> Science discards a theory in part or in its entirety when it doesn't fit the data. The data doesn't fit, yet it is still held as fact. That is not science.-A marvelous list that calls Darwin's now-modified evolution theory into severe question, which is why I have chosen a third way, theistic evolution. God guides all, which is why a built-in IM (if present) is under tight control.-Note the final point. It is the balance of nature, which is a requirement for life to succeed