15 questions evolutionists cannot adequately answer

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  1. noknobs

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    1st off, why are you quoting Darwin... Get with the times.

    2nd, it's not evolution as you say, so how can it be a flaw in evolution? Evolution doesn't take place in a vacuum. Everyone knows that. The environment dictates which mutations are advantageous to survival, and the environment changes on Earth all the time (and I'd say an ELE qualifies as an environmental change).
     
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    There are humans born with lobster claws for hands. Others are born with two heads. That doesn't mean they're not human, though.

    I'm not sure you understand the difference between speciation and genetic mutations within a species.
     
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    I think we have pretty much the same view, and it's a view that always blows the minds of those on the evolutionary side of the binary evolution/creation debate. There are so many questions that evolution can't answer, yet the hardcore believers try to insist there is information that explains it. IMO, the Big Bang theory is as useless as some God creating things, at least in terms of it being believable.
     
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    Noah's ark is a fairy tale.
     
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    It also doesn't account for how life actually started on earth, either, at least in terms of a scientifically proven and tested answer.
     
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    Science has never been about holding a theory, and then working backward to find evidence supporting this theory. The same thing is done today with AGW. More snow, well, it's because of AGW/climate change. Droughts? It's AGW/CC. Record low temps? AGW/CC.

    I can 'prove' a lot of things when I already have the answer, and then use observed data to fit into that theory.
     
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    No it's not, Russell Crowe just did a movie about it. It's coming out in a couple of weeks.

    [video=youtube;6qmj5mhDwJQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmj5mhDwJQ[/video]

    Burn!
     
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    Hermione is aging quite nicely...
     
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    One can make a strong case that it is in fact a real historical event.
     
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    No, no you can't.
     
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    Yeah, like I can't possibly believe Kaley Cuoco could evolve from smoking hot in season 1 to a chunky horse face now.
     
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    Actually yes, yes I can. Whether or not one chooses to accept the evidence is up to them though. Like I said, the will to disbelieve is every bit as strong as the will to believe.
     
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    Just because I don't think it's been proven to have happened doesn't mean it didn't happen. I really don't know, but I don't take the Big Bang theory as anything other than a fairy tale, either. What existed before the Big Bang? Why did it occur? Why hasn't it happened again?
     
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    Like ORLMA2 is constantly doing with evolution, you're asking questions that are beyond the scope of the theory.
     
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    Typical.
     
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    People call it "Evolution." The so-called debates are about evolution vs. creationism, not about "the latest prevailing theory of life" vs. creationism.

    So yeah, I would say Evolution has the flaw I put forward.

    Why am I quoting Darwin? He wrote the book.
     
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    Evolution doesn't claim to account for how life actually started. Do you have a point to make, or do you want to ascribe to the theory something that it isn't about and argue against that?
     
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    Then it's an incomplete and invalid theory. What exploded for the Big Bang? What existed prior to it? Why hasn't it happened again? Why can't it be proven in a controlled environment?
     
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    Well, that depends on which Evolution Fundie one is debating. I've read it many times over where a EvFundie has tried to show amino acids being created, and other such nonsense. It's a flawed theory if it can't account for how life actually started, and required a great deal of faith to believe completely.
     
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