Creationist Junk Debunked #1

[one_bat]

Couldn't help but post this. It sums up my own personal attitude towards what I see as a completely unsupportable and unethical stance by anyone who calls themselves a Creationist, or supports so called "Intelligent Design". I think a lot of people who classify themselves as such should take a good hard look at the ninth commandment. Or go

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[angie78]

Well, I am going straight to hell ;) Thanks for posting ;)

[jagwire]

I think I believe in a form of Intelligent Design, wherein the organism mutates according to need. Apparently there was an experiment done with some red foxes in a snow environment. Within 12 years, the foxes were having entirely white litters. No random mutation at work, only a need for the survival of the species. Will need to try and find the specifics of this experiment methinks.

[one_bat]

Foxes in an arctic environment gradually becoming a creature with white fur sounds very much to me like natural selectioon aka evolution. Perhaps the white variety succeed better in the all white environment as predators that their ORANGE bretheren.

I.D. or Creationism deals more with the unquestioning faith in the deliberate intervention of an unknowable "Designer" making things the way they are. I see this kind of arguement counter to logic and reason. It baffles me how otherwise normal sane and intelligent people can either bare false witness and deliberately decieve, or be fooled by an amalgam of mis-quoted half truth.

[jagwire]

The thing is, it wasn't all that gradually. It only took 3 generations or so. According to what I understand of the Theory of Evolution, such a change should have taken much longer to occur.

It baffles me how otherwise normal sane and intelligent people can either bare false witness and deliberately decieve, or be fooled by an amalgam of mis-quoted half truth.

This seems to be the major argument against ID etc., yet people do this every day in every aspect of their lives. I don't see how it's any different. People = stupid - it's the only true universal law ;)

[jilder]

It's a popular misconception that evolution takes ages. It can be very, very quick at times. Natural selection removes members from a population who are no longer fit enough to pass on their genes. If the pressure is big enough (a red vixen and her kits starving to death because they can't hunt) then the selection can be very quick.

[stimpuppet]

I want a Golden Crocaduck!

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