Kenya Fossils
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- mpfree0
Richard Goldschmidt although recognized the constant accumulation of small changes in populations (microevolution), he believed they did not lead to speciation. Between true species he saw "bridgeless gaps" that could only be accounted for by large sudden jumps, resulting in "hopeful monsters."
Goldschmidt tried to explore possible genetic mechanisms of how rapid change might occur in lineages of organisms. He suggested that a relatively small change might have a large effect on the phenotype, especially through "controlling" genes which mediate the expression of the organism's blueprint. Later, he thought macromutations or mutants (which used to be called "monsters") might arise in a single generation, and this biological novelty might enjoy a selective advantage under changing environmental conditions.
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My personal opinion is that a slew of these fossils were found. Hence, the larger bone structure that resembles humans.
- lemmys_wart0
"The designer felt... "
wtf, flage...
you're out there.
claiming to know what god feels?
and you claim your opinions as scientific?
- mpfree0
*thinks of posting some science stuff
*thinks better of it, as you guys totally lost me and don't want to post out of context
:(
- lemmys_wart0
The Design inference is really the only option that doesn't voilate Occam's Razor, as well.
ah... more negatives.
and that's ^ 101 philosophy, not science.
you're bluring the lines.
telling me the world is flat...
(it's not)
- mpfree0
lemmy: last time I'll reply to you on this because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about...
Nothing I posted was "negative" evidence. They are what we call: empirical observations. And they are evidences which defy materialistic explanations. They also have the hallmarks of purposive design. So, as I already stated, the inference to an intelligence is fully warranted. Now, go and research the following:
- Complex Specified Information
&
- low probability + high specificity
Got that? Write that down.
flagellum
(Dec 6 06, 11:32)hahhaa
- flagellum0
Now, the alternative to design is blind, a-telic, chance + necessity. The evidence just isn't there to support this beyond trivial adaptive change in existing phyla. Anything else is an unwarranted extrapolation and untestable, unobservable, etc...
- flagellum0
you are describing it as an argument from incredulity. Which is false. It's observing the evidence and making a logical inference based on that evidence.
We know that programs come from programmers.
We know that life comes from life (biogenesis).
We know that specified machinery comes from engineers.
The Design inference is really the only option that doesn't voilate Occam's Razor, as well.
- bolus0
that's true mimio, my apologies for wrongly frasing...
- bolus0
also, science means accepting, that for the time being you might not understand something, not denying things you can't grasp and state that it's in favour of a design theory....
- Mimio0
It's called weak inductive reasoning.
There's really wrong with it other than passing it off as fact.
- bolus0
- Fine tuning of the cosmologic constants. i.e. the laws of physics are "rigged" to support life. Within an impossibly small tolerance.
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think he meant to say that, for example, your observation "within an impossibly small tolerance" is not science and certainly not proof of design....
- flagellum0
lemmy: last time I'll reply to you on this because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about...
Nothing I posted was "negative" evidence. They are what we call: empirical observations. And they are evidences which defy materialistic explanations. They also have the hallmarks of purposive design. So, as I already stated, the inference to an intelligence is fully warranted. Now, go and research the following:
- Complex Specified Information
&
- low probability + high specificity
Got that? Write that down.
- lemmys_wart0
earlier the flage said:
- Fine tuning of the cosmologic constants. i.e. the laws of physics are "rigged" to support life. Within an impossibly small tolerance.
- The Cambrian Explosion: The majority of biological novelty in the form of unique tissue, cells and body plans, appear abruptly in the geologic column without precursors and without any evidence of gradualism from simpler lifeforms.
- Cellular Machinery: The rotors, turbines, transport shuttles, pulleys, stators, etc... in the cell which make it more complex than the infrastructure of NYC. This machinery is Irreducibly Complex meaning that there would be nothing for Darwinian Natural Selection to select upon. This machinery requires all of it's parts simultaneously to function. Remove one component and the machine fails.
- Digital code at the core of life: The 4 nucleotide alphabet encoded along the spine of the DNA molecule. This is also known as Specified Information. DNA is a ribosome coding computer. Blind, a-telic mechanisms don't write programs.
- The complete lack of intermediates in the fossil record. Only a handful of Chimeras. Most phyla give no evidence of evolution via gradualism. Rather a saltational evolution is what the record would demonstrate. i.e. the sudden appearance of novel phyla (from reading a genetic program). Think of a computer algorith which executes different functions at given intervals
^ all negative opinions.
where's the testable observation of this intelligence"?
this can't, that can't...
i don't think you understand what science is.
or maybe you just dont want to.
make a positive observation...
make that observation testable...
and we'll talk.
as of now ya got nothing.
nothing.
- TheBlueOne0
I live in all of you.
Polonium-210
(Dec 6 06, 09:50)
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Are You the Designer? I will worship at the altar of the Great Polonium!!
- mrdobolina0
I can just imagine what is going on in this thread right now. dude even dusted off old garettwest.
- Polonium-2100
Think again humans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/healt…There are very small amounts of polonium-210 in the soil and in the atmosphere, and everyone has a small amount of it in their body.
But at high doses, it damages tissues and organs.
However the substance, historically called radium F, is very hard for doctors to identify.
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I live in all of you.
- material-10
i am rand
- TheBlueOne0
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Polonium-210
(Dec 6 06, 09:42)Sorry bro..Polonium only works if we ingest it, and I ain't swallowing...try something like Uranium-212 next time..or heck, just plain old cyanide..
- DrHuxtable0
hahaha ... sorry to disappoint, but i am not dobs, or any of the other people who have milwaukee listed.
- Polonium-2100
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