Darwinist
Out of context: Reply #356
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Look, let's just summarize the actual hard facts and everybody can go away and digest them. *Forgive me for repeating myself in these points:
1. The fossil record shows the sudden appearance of all major phyla during the Cambrian era and then stasis.
2. The fossil record lacks any transitional forms between species. i.e. flight birds, appear as flight birds. Turtles appear as turtles, mammalian hominids appear as fully formed hominids. No intermediates leading up to these, just sudden appearance.
3. Natural Selection + Unguided Mutation has never been shown to provide information-gaining change. Only loss of information. The most it can do is provide adaptation within an existing species. i.e. bird beak changes, etc... It has never been shown to produce large scale changes and on the molecular level, has been shown to be incapable of building cellular machinery which requires all of it's parts at once, to function (cannot be assembled gradually).
4. We see the hallmarks of design everywhere. From the 4 letter digital nucleotide code on the spine of the DNA molecule to the rotary turbines, transport shuttles and other mind boggling machines in the cell. Design is replete in living systems.
5. The age of the earth and carbon dating is far from conclusive - from 30 year old pig's teeth being called hominid teeth, to a geologic column which shows layers that should be on the bottom, on top and fossils that "should" be on the bottom, on mountaintops. Again, a secondary issue.
6. Precision fine-tuning of the physical constants, i.e. gravity tuned to minute tolerance to keep us from flying off the planet and keep us from being squashed to death, and perfect positioning from the sun and moon to support organic life. Any slight tweak in either direction and we wouldn't be here.
etc.. etc..
*gasps for air