DomKen
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ORIGINAL: awmslave Knowledge of ToE is very useful for organizing thoughts. However, medicine is based mostly on advances in anatomy, biochemistry and molecular biology that can live without evolutionary theory. This is simply wrong. One of the major areas of medical research presently centers on developing new antibiotics and new antivirals? Why? Because disease causing bacteria and viruses are continually evolving resistance to the drugs we use to kill them. Anatomy resdearch is entirely driven by the ToE, primarily at this point we explore how our organs and other structures evolved and what weaknesses that builds into our systems. For instance the human kidney is derived from our reptilian ancestors, with adaptations for living in no water, which derived from our amphibian ancestors, with adaptations for living in fresh water, which derived from open ocean fishes, with adaptations for living in salt water. This is the origin of the looping features of the kidney and have profound influences on how we understand and treat renal conditions and it is all completely meaningless without the ToE to explain it. quote:
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Correction they lie about calculating such things. Random mutation put through the not random filter of natural selection is sufficient to account for all the complexity in life. The ToE is fully supported by all of the rest of science. Anyone who claims that evolution violates thermodynamics or chemistry or physics is either a liar or a dupe. I wouldn’t make such a claim. There is clear experimental and observational evidence that certain degree of evolution occurs via random mutation mechanisms. However, the evidence does not warrant the conclusion that any degree is possible. The opponents of the orthodox Darwinism demonstrate that macro evolutionary processes (requiring simultaneous massive changes in the genoms and development processes) are not possible via such mechanisms. Intermediary forms (considering the change through series of elementary steps) in most cases can not be shown or constructed. Evolution does not violate laws of science (obviously). Although, the origin of life followed by a progressive evolution is impossible to imagine based on known inorganic and organic chemistry and thermodynamics. You wouldn't make that claim but working biologists who study the subject their entire lives would make that claim. You claim the evidence does not warrant that any degree of change is possible so you must be able to state what this limiting mechanism is? Evolutionary processes do not require simulatneous and/or massive changes in the genome or development process. That is a standard creationist lie. The reality is we have overwhelming evidence in the chromosomes of all living things for the evolution of all life from a common ancestor. Pick any major transition and the series can be presented, pre hiominid ape to homo sapiens, hoofed carnivores to whales, dinosaurs to birds, reptiles to mammals, fish to amphibians, animals with no back bones to primitive fish are all well documented in the fossil record and all have support from the genetic and biochemical fields as well. Abiogenesis is quite imaginable based on known chemical and thermodynamic properties. Present hypothei postulates the origin of life being in shallow pools over clay. Sunlight provides the needed input energy while the clay provides an effective 'culture dish' for the pre biotic compounds to replicate and develop. Your objection is simply an argument from incredulity which is of little value unless you are an expert in the field in question. For instance I have a hard time believing quantum mechanics but that doesn't make it untrue. quote:
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All major ID supporters oppose the ToE to some degree. Pick your personal favorite and I'll produce his statements proving that fact. How can they not? That is the point. You were the one who claimed they did not. See your prior post on the subject.
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