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Darwinian Evolution Means No Change Over Time

Posted on February 13, 2015May 31, 2015 By teleologist No Comments on Darwinian Evolution Means No Change Over Time

Everyone agrees evolution is a fact if we define it as change over time. Darwinism on the other hand extends that change to common descent through novel mutations. But what happens when there is no novel mutations over billions of years, well that’s okay because that is also proof for Darwinian evolution. Say what?

“It seems astounding that life has not evolved for more than 2 billion years—nearly half the history of the Earth,” said J. William Schopf, a UCLA professor of earth, planetary and space sciences in the UCLA College who was the study’s lead author. “Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.”

Charles Darwin’s writings on evolution focused much more on species that had changed over time than on those that hadn’t. So how do scientists explain a species living for so long without evolving?

“The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin,” said Schopf, who also is director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. The environment in which these microorganisms live has remained essentially unchanged for 3 billion years, he said.

I am sure prof. Schopf is looking at this purely from a scientific perspective and not based on his presupposition that evolution is a fact, and therefore some excuse explanation is needed for this lack of evolution (yes, that was a bit of sarcasm).

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Atheism, Biology, Darwinism, Evolution

Darwin’s Other Doubt

Posted on July 29, 2013July 30, 2013 By teleologist No Comments on Darwin’s Other Doubt

That said, it occurred to me that Charles Darwin voiced a deeper doubt, of relevance to all of Meyer’s critics. In a letter to William Graham on July 3, 1881, Darwin wrote: Nevertheless you have expressed my inward conviction, though far more vividly and clearly than I could have done, that the Universe is not…

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Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution

Santa vs Atheism

Posted on January 31, 2013February 3, 2013 By teleologist No Comments on Santa vs Atheism

Michael Patton over at Parchment and Pen posted this comparison from the atheists to ridicule Christians. A Letter to (Some) Atheists I would like to offer my counter comparison based on their theme to make a counter-point. Santa vs Atheism

Atheism, Darwinism

How P.Z. Myers Does Science?

Posted on September 11, 2009 By teleologist

A few weeks ago PZ defended his religion of Darwinism in the post Darwin and the vermiform appendix. PZ Myers is a Darwinian Prior, who refuse to allow silly things like facts stand in the way of his worship of atheism. So when a lot of press starts to suggest evolution might be in error, PZ the Darwinian Prior, must spin the fairy tale once again.

Where they go awry, though, is in trying to pick a fight with a dead man, and making that the focus of their public relations. … Charles Darwin is dead. Your research can’t be very cogent if your approach to drum up interest is to dig up a 120-year-old corpse and kick it around; is there anyone alive who disagrees with you who can put up a more informative and entertaining struggle? What this does is pick this one fellow as a symbol of the whole edifice of evolutionary theory

I agree. Darwin is dead and no one should make him the symbol of the whole edifice of evolutionary fairy tale theory. I mean only a crazy person would make such a big deal about a dead guy right? A rational and smart scientist like PZ would never make such a big deal about a 120 year old corpse who does not have very cogent research to science, right? Hey, PZ do you know the Darwin corpse worshipper from Fairyngula who said this?

Get out and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important scientists of all time, Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important books in biology, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It’s that day!

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Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution

Atheist Darwinian Bigot

Posted on October 23, 2007October 14, 2015 By teleologist

I know I am being redundant with the post title. Invoking Darwin’s Theory to Argue for Inferiority of Blacks He says that he is “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says…

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Atheism, Darwinism

Pixie’s Misrepresents Behe on Common Descent

Posted on October 3, 2007 By teleologist 23 Comments on Pixie’s Misrepresents Behe on Common Descent

This post is created to hold the OT comments from Methodological Naturalism: Is it Necessary for Science?

Atheism, Dstortions

Its All About the Evidence…Evidently!

Posted on September 25, 2007 By donaldm 7 Comments on Its All About the Evidence…Evidently!

In many discussions across the blogoshere about the existence of God or supernatural entities, the claim is often made that there’s no reason to think that such things exist because there simply is “no evidence”. Those who do think such entities exist are either “delusional” a la Richard Dawkins, or holding such beliefs “without evidence”. In either case, the theist has somehow failed in his or her epistemic duties to retain such beliefs, especially in our modern, scientific world.

But what precisely is the problem? Is it really a case of “no evidence”, meaning that no observation or phenomenon has ever or could ever provide evidence for the existence of God?
If that is what is meant, it would seem to be reasonable to ask for evidence that such a claim is true. But what that evidence would even look like isn’t at all clear. Or maybe what is meant is that there may be some observations that could be seen by some as evidence for the existence of God, but that there are no known principles that can connect that evidence to the conclusion. In its stronger forms, it is added that no one has ever or will ever know of such principles. What evidence there is for such a claim isn’t clear either.

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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Theology

Methodological Naturalism: Is it Necessary for Science?

Posted on September 18, 2007 By donaldm 26 Comments on Methodological Naturalism: Is it Necessary for Science?

I’ve recently had the “privilege” of discussing some of the implications of so-called methodological naturalism (MN) on one or two blogs. For Darwinists, especially Darwinists who take philosophical naturalism (PN) as true, MN is an absolute necessity for scientific practice.
Thus MN becomes an extension of PN, and has the effect of making science a correlate of PN. Now, many defenders of MN would argue that isn’t the case at all and that MN is quite separate from PN and in no way implies its truth or even demands that PN be followed. But is that possible? Given what MN says and how it operates within science, is there a principled way to distinguish between it and full-blown PN?

I don’t think there is.

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Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

Prominent Darwinist commits suicide

Posted on June 12, 2007 By scordova 2 Comments on Prominent Darwinist commits suicide

Clark Adams was on the board of directors of Internet Infidels, the organization that hosts the infamous “swamp” (the infidels creation/evolution discussion board).

It was the swamp creatures the heroic ID proponents and creationists have fought on the internet in various places for many years, and these battle continue to this day…

But now, one of the Darwinsits generals in the person of Clark Adams falls on his owns sword in the middle of battle!

At first I was about to seriously gloat that yet another Darwinist was vanquished. He killed himself in a manner thoroughly consistent with his pointless Darwinian world view. But alas, I find the passing of this particular enemy to be an unhappy event…

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Atheism

Atheist Bigots Abound

Posted on May 22, 2007 By teleologist 102 Comments on Atheist Bigots Abound

While not every Darwinist is an atheist, just about every atheist is a Darwinist. So don’t tell me that there is no connection between ID, Darwinism and Atheism. Thank you to EN&V for bringing this bigotry to our attention and another demonstration of atheist morality. Chronicle of Higher Education Unearths New Evidence in Support of…

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