#1 2007-12-26 17:11:28

This isn't standard High Street topic fare, but this really made my morning.  This little video illustrates an example of natural selection I've found hard to articulate.



If you found this interesting, the author has a lot more the same channel... if you didn't the standard insults apply.

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#2 2007-12-26 17:57:51

He's wasting his time...the average creationist won't even be able to follow what he's doing.

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#3 2007-12-26 18:34:54

I agree with Hk.  If believers in "Intelligent Design" were rational enough to follow this simulation, they wouldn't buy into their own theory in the first place. 

I like the anti evolution example of placing a thousand monkeys at typewriters and letting them type until they type the Bible, which, of course, would be never.  However, if we treat the work of the monkeys the way nature treats mutations, it could happen rather quickly.  Simply keep only those keystrokes typed in the correct order, just as nature rewards winning adaptations and disposes of those offering no competitive advantage.  It would only be a matter of time until the great book of books is completed.

The simplest argument against Intelligent Design is pointing out all the extinct species that were not designed well enough to survive.

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#4 2007-12-26 18:36:31

Evolution is just doesn't make sense. Think about it.

1) Some prehistoric sea slug crawls out of its primordial soup only to have the sun shine on its face sparking a chemical reaction that, over the course of hundreds of generations, causes muscles to form and eventually becomes the basis for the primitive iris.

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2) a giant celestial hand come out of the sky, grabs a hand full of dirt and blows on it, then a man appears.  It's in the Bible, so it has to be true.

I'll pray for you, opsec.

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#5 2007-12-26 20:24:07

Outhere, I believe my response to Sofie's posting is also relevant to this thread, as well.

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

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#6 2007-12-26 20:27:07

Blasphemy!  There is an Intelligent Designer, and his name is "The Flying Spaghetti Monster."

www.venganza.org

May you be blessed by his "Noodly Appendages" soon...

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#7 2007-12-26 21:38:05

Suck my clock! Rule 34! NSFW!

Tee hee.

Very clever, but ultimately proving the fellow has quite a bit of time on his hands to code that, run it, and break the results down so even a 12 year-old could understand them. Of course, the problem is not the logical fallacies that ID enthusiasts proffer in a pseudoscientific attempt to validate their nonsense, but the fact that--if backed into a corner like this--they'll revert to "faith" as evidence. Creationism is, by definition, not empirical; ergo, it should not rely upon any scientific method to be demonstrated. The "Watch Trick" is an experiment, but obviously not one with a serviceable hypothesis.

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#8 2007-12-27 05:08:35

pALEPHx wrote:

Suck my clock! Rule 34! NSFW!

Right - I'm on it.



http://static.grupthink.com/answer/8/8191bdbf76d6ed7b2432c1f41b3da954



Or, were you referring to the watch?

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