tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post8905116107521413009..comments2024-02-19T12:05:47.873+00:00Comments on Something Surprising: Textual criticism of DNA - proof of evolution!Plasma Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-46662946065086680732012-10-05T10:10:26.558+01:002012-10-05T10:10:26.558+01:00Hilary said ... "dating procedures are totall...<b>Hilary said ... "dating procedures are totally questionable and the time span for the various dating mechanisms is much much greater in range than is ever admitted"</b><br /><br />Oh, this argument is so freakin' tiresome! Why do ID proponents feel that dating procedures are tested less rigorously than in any other scientific research?<br /><br />Scientists test and counter test, using different techniques, to ensure that they get results as accurately as possible. For some reason, Christians (and Muslims) accept scientific testing on medicine, technology, chemistry, etc - yet when it comes to evolution etc, these tests are deemed not 'accurate' enough. They pick and choose what science is convenient to them and their beliefs, and then shut their eyes, ears and mind on any other uncomfortable scientific truth.@TasteLikeYounoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-82760755516088932752011-11-27T14:34:15.405+00:002011-11-27T14:34:15.405+00:00Well of course we disagree about the comparison be...Well of course we disagree about the comparison because I have no intention of finding a person who can be traced back to the origin, or even a gene that originates that far back. <br /><br />In fact, as I think you know, I am not even talking about people at all in either case, but the statistical analysis of the 'texts' to get back to something close to the last common ancestor, be it biblical-text or organism-DNA-text.<br /><br />The 'letters' GATC that make up the alphabet of the genes are virtually immutable, the genes are variable but only very slowly variable and the variations that have survived fit neatly in the tree of life. The interpretation of DNA sequences is so precisely logical that biblical scholar could only wish for anything even approaching it.<br /><br />The interesting article that you refer to is absolutely typical of the deliberate pseudo-scientific obfuscation that proponents of Intelligent Design trot out ad nauseum. It deliberately misrepresents so many things - the main one being that evolution has a purpose - which it doesn't. It is not comparable to domestic breeding - which does! The idea that 'inferior species' do not survive is also manifest nonsense. Is a bacterium inferior? 'Yes' in that it is not intelligent, but 'No' in that it has clearly been highly successful to survive. Have these 'lower' forms of life like bacteria survived? Clearly 'Yes'. The millions of species that still exist fir the pattern that they would fit if they shared common ancestry in a tree like way. All have found their niche in which they are the superior organism - the most advanced.<br /><br />The whole thing about that web page is that it assumes that everything has to have a purpose.Plasma Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-18293249620888642652011-11-26T14:35:20.392+00:002011-11-26T14:35:20.392+00:00The problem you face with this comparison is that ...The problem you face with this comparison is that it isn't anc can never be a comparison at all. There were people who can be traced back who knew the early disciples and who knew Jesus Christ. There is no person who can be traced back to what is 'believed' to be the origin of life... <br /><br />much of the supposed discoveries in Darwin's idea of evolution are extremely questionable.<br /><br />dating procedures are totally questionable and the time span for the various dating mechanisms is much much greater in range than is ever admitted.<br /><br />Science discoveries are all without exception interpretations of observations... you only need to look back in time so see how much of science has been taught as 'fact' until another more favoured theory comes along...wheras God's Word stays the same, all the time...throughout the ages...<br /><br />interesting article http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/Hilarynoreply@blogger.com