Intelligent Design Outwits Evolution...Again

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Edward M McComas, you do not support your ideas with credible evidence. Also, your definitions are incomplete or incorrect. For example, a mutation is not something that always causes a beneficial change, like you imply. Our genes are mutating every day from environmental sources, like the sun and things we ingest. After copulation, these mutations are passed to offspring. If these mutations somehow prevent further copulation, the passed mutations are, in your words, "harmful". So, these mutations would not be passed to the third generation, in this example. So why do giraffes have long necks? For the same reason humming birds have long beaks. Mutations have benefited their survival. Giraffes that were born with slightly longer necks could reach fruit higher on trees than other giraffes. Those with shorter necks were at a loss. Over many generations their necks became longer. It is not an instantaneous occurrence. The same goes with the creation of humans. Adam and Eve did not just pop into existence. "Food doesn't randomly and spontaneously appear, does it?" Everything in existence did not spontaneously appear. Human creation happened over the long term. Each piece of our complex system was created from a large quantity of tiny beneficial mutations, while the system maintained function. I am sorry but evolution was the process of creation because the alternative is an impossibility. 10/27/2011
David The evidence outways anything u have for intelligent design...time to put away your bronze age thinking as it was also known as the dark ages 6/23/2011
AJAY ADEY Read a book titled: A New Matter; Time is God. It offers more clarity on this subject 1/5/2011
Joe I'm pretty sure a 5th grader has a more accurate view of all of the topics you discussed... 1/30/2010
Vivian Miller The arguments presented in this article are articulated utilizing definitions of words which reflect slang and colloquialism. Example: the term "mutation" is taken out of context to refer to something negative, when in fact it is a neutral term which describes a change in DNA sequence. Most mutations are "silent", meaning they happen frequently, but do not result in any physical abnormalities. The words you choose to craft your message are very important, and ought to be as powerful (and relevant) as your motivation to create this website. 9/2/2009
Dreux I've heard the same story from people like this guy. All of them are half way between being a complete ignoramus when it comes to evolution and actually understanding how evolution works. They only learn enough about the world to support the story that they have believed their whole lives: intelligent design. These people believe so heatedly that God created everything that they will make up their own "proof" to support what they think, but they are afraid that evolution will corrupt their beliefs so they tip-toe into evolution to avoid its corruption; in the same way that someone is careful to slowly move into the coldness of a swimming pool. If you aren't open to new theories and possibilities, then you shouldn't comment on what the best theory out there is. 5/24/2009
Jordan Bajema I would like to point out two discrepancies that I have with the content of this article. The first is that, yes, Mt. St. Helen's explosion did create what was called a dead zone. However, from this dead zone came life. My second biff is about the law of entropy. This law states that energy becomes of a lower quality as time passes. This does fit with "Chaos created order". My thought is that when all was chaos, it was because the matter that existed was full of crazy levels of energy. Now as time progressed the energy became lower in quality, thus less energetic and chaotic, and the result of this "calm down" was order. 8/31/2008
brian Intelligent design and evolution are not mutually exclusive! Evolution is the means of design. 5/2/2007
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