SiNcE_1985 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2024 4:40 pm
This is the
genetic fallacy.
Where the information
comes from (the source) has no bearing on the
truth value of the information.
The source has been shown to actually be biased. The evidence was provided and your proposed excuse does not make the shown bias disappear.
You have failed to show the bias in my source and I have shown the bias in yours. You can only pretend that we are on equal footing.
So the only challenge here, is for you to demonstrate why/how the information is inaccurate, and I don't think you can do so.
Biased sources cannot be trusted. Your source is biased and will not even consider information that goes against its preconceived biases.
You have to attack the source material, not the source itself.
It has been proven that your source cannot be trusted for the biased beliefs that dictate what is even allowed to be considered.
You're like debating a flat earther that sees no issue with rejecting actual science because of the flat earth websites that they get their info from.
Just like I can say your source is bias...as it is coming from folks who already believe in evolution.
That wouldn't be accurate though. Please show any actual bias like I did for the info you provided or acknowledge that it isn't there.
An equivalent bias would be something like: Any ideas that go against the theory of evolution will automatically be discounted. I trust the readers see this and realize how ridiculous this would be.
This is false and I find it very dishonest.
When I call someone dishonest, I get reported, warned, and dinged for it.
See the bold above. Please manage your reading comprehension and victim mentality.
When anyone else do it, a blind eye gets turned to it.
Life's just not fair.
You made your bed and you need to sleep in it. Pretending to be a victim is not something I find virtuous.
That there are changes in the inherited traits of a population through successive generations is indeed a fact. This is NOT a faith statement.
That is not the point of contention, which is the mere scope/degree of changes.
You accused me of making faith statements. I posted this to show that you were wrong.
Flat earth, spherical earth...doesn't matter to me...as long as God orchestrated the affairs.
Readers, I propose that this is the priori held belief (bias) that dictates this persons held beliefs. It also aligns with the bias from their source, which is not a surprise. I note that flat earthers employ a similar bias.
Derp. Enough micro makes macro.
You are speculating, relying on the unseen. This is faith.
Readers, ask yourself if it is to apply faith to acknowledge that enough micro steps would equal a macro step.
Sure, you can walk 100 steps, but there is no way that you could do that enough to walk a mile! To believe that would be faith!
What is the mechanism that is in place that prevents macro changes?
What is the mechanism that is in place to keep it going?
Readers, notice how questions are unable to be answered and biased sources are being supplied.
It's like asking: If you keep walking, what is the mechanism that will get you to one mile? It nonsensical.
I need observable evidence....not bio-babble.
That we can compare the starting and ending allele frequencies for a specific gene during a given time period and note changes over said time is bio-babble to you.
Not a surprise coming from one that needs to deny science and rely on biased websites in order to maintain a priori held religious belief.
Jonathan Wells, a CHRISTIAN biologists, is aware of everything you just said, yet he doesn't draw the same conclusions...which means that not everyone buys into the biobabble.
Strawman. It's obvious that not everyone draws the same conclusions. Not everyone agrees that the earth is an oblate spheroid either. This point has no meaning.
Give me something I can observe...and all I observe are animals producing what they are, not what they aren't.
All the animals that exist now and in the fossil record plus embryology, DNA comparisons, biogeography, genetics, anatomy, molecular biology, homologous organs and evolution in action (that species change).
Me: No, maybe God simply created fully-bodied birds with teeth. Ever think of that?
I have. Can you propose anything that would make someone consider that some unknown god concept did what you insert without reason or evidence?
Never mind what the website say, because I know of Christians who DOES believe in evolution.
Welcome to being a flat earther.
Here is a Christian who DOES believe in a flat earth:
My Flat Earth by Pauly Hart
"The time has come, and now is, when we must show others the truth of God's Word. That the earth is not a spinning ball in space."
You really don't see why your reasoning is being rejected, do you?
I can't in all commonsensical reasoning believe in the notion that the universe came from nothing and we owe our existence to a mindlless/blind/random process.
Thank you for supplying the mechanism that drives your beliefs. I am not saddled with such a thing and in fact am willing to accept a god concept or not as being a cause.
I don't have enough faith to believe in that nonsense.
You do and this is nothing but poisoning of the well.
Um, no...guys like Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, Johanthan Wells, Hugh Ross, etc.
Nothing but an argument from authority. If they have understood evidence that shows that not only a God, but the Christian god concept is the thing that brought about all the animals we see now and in the fossil record, please present it.
They've all looked at the evidence, and they understand it...and they simply ain't buying it.
Once a person pretends to know the unknown, there is no reason to continue learning.
And neither am I.
I'm not impressed.
The Kalam Cosmological Argument does a great job of gutting out the details of what is required for the universe (moon included) to exist.
No it doesn't, it only causes more questions. More importantly, I continue to ask you to explain a better mechanism for the animals we see now and in the fossil record. Kalam is not that.
Im sure you are familiar with the argument, and that is my proof, my evidence, and my truth.
Thanks for sharing your beliefs. Do you have any evidence for us?
Readers, notice how SiNcE_1985 failed to address my question and instead provided evidence that they don't understand that which they criticize.
Only someone that doesn't understand the theory of evolution would suggest that beetles came from a single celled organism!
Hmm..
A single cell turned into a beetle is what you are suggesting. No one proposes such a thing. I would rather debate a flat earth!
Please, I would like an apology and I refuse to engage in any more dialogue with you until I get one.
Beetles did not evolve from a single celled organism anymore than you did. They evolved from a form that was not a single cell. Therefore, you do not deserve an apology.
Perhaps you are alluding to abiogenesis? A topic about how life came about. Evolution is about change. If you don't learn this, you will continue to be confused.
So, until I get an apology, this will be my last post to you.
I'm sorry.
I am sick of my knowledge being questioned just because I do not buy into this dumb theory (evolution).
Then don't join debate sites where ideas are to be questioned. The victim mentality in you is strong!
You are clearly wrong here, so I am not the one whose knowledge should be questioned.
Beetles are thought to have evolved from a group of crustaceans. The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period.
Not from a single celled organism.
Yeah, further research into how an entire universe can come from a state of nothingness.
Why do you submit that our universe came from nothing? Anything to distract I assume, but I don't want to pretend to know. Please enlighten me.
Good luck with that...but anything but the "G" word, right?
Incorrect. I take no issue with a god or gods being the cause for abiogenesis nor for how populations of animals change. You couldn't be more wrong.
You can't have life evolving, if you don't have life originating.
I don't know what part of that you guys don't understand.
That is because there is no part of this that I don't understand.
If you take God out of the equation (which most of you do), then you need to explain how life can originate, WITHOUT GOD.
We don't know how life originated. Perhaps a God did it. Please keep up.
We are now at "God did it, whether you like it or not".
Nope, sorry. We still don't know how life originated on this planet. Your continued assertion that you know is what would stops you from learning though.
Are you familiar with the show "How It's Made"?
It is a show where they take you behind the scenes as to how things are manufactured.
In other words, we know those "things" (jeans, aluminum foil, automobiles, etc) are all created via intelligent design, yet that doesn't stop us from being able to marvel at the process, does it?
I don't see why that would prevent marveling. Why are you asking about a TV show? Does it have anything to do with the animals we see now and in the fossil record?
It has nothing to do with being lazy...we can look at the universe, knowing God created it
We don't know if there was a god or gods behind our universe coming into existence. Humans have been uncomfortable with not knowing, so they invented god concepts to explain. Then they can be comfortable pretending to know like you seem to be doing here.
I am not necessarily talking about how our world works, I am talking about how our world ORIGINATED.
We know how planet form, ours included. Gravity played a large part.
You can't use science to explain the origins of its own domain...this is circular reasoning and will get you nowhere.
Good thing I'm not doing that.
Yet, you choose to remain stuck running around in the circle instead of looking beyond the circle because of this "anything but God" approach.
You have already been shown to be wrong about this. I'm ok with a god or gods as having created out universe if such a thing is valid.
"We don't know", or better yet, "we dont WANT to know"...which is the problem.
I submit that this is your problem. I am in fact curious about such things. Here, specifically about all the animals we see not only now, but also in the fossil record. Something you really, really, really don't want to discuss.
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