Trashboat;7556785 said:Speciation by way of Natural selection takes a long time, it isn't hard to understand. That's why most of the examples we have evidence of are the ones observed due to hybridization.
When a bear is born it is not born to a snake, or anything even remotely close to that dissimilar to a bear. It is born to something only slightly different. By presenting evolution in such a way as to make it seem like new species are produced over a single generation you have informed us all that you know very little on the matter.
Every observable instance of life on earth shows it has a parent, yet somehow I am to believe spontaneity created life. It doesn't add up no matter how many times you say it happens slowly.
Dude, it's a rat race. Just cause you keep repeating "it takes time" even after I acknowledge before that theory states "it takes time," doesn't make much of a difference to the point I'm making. Let me reach conclusion with you. That theory of speciation (which I've admitted I agree a specific species can change some features of itself, but my opposition is that it will still remain that kind of animal or species. It won't change species) gives itself a loophole that makes it non-debatable. Just because it's non-debatable doesn't mean its true. But it states, to protect itself, it happens so slow *punctuated equilibrium* that there isn't gonna be a real ability to trace the DNA, bones records, carbon, methane or any other trace method of when and what parent species is to the different species it gave birth to. Trust me, the world gets it. We were all taught it in elementary and watched that little film of the fish coming out the water and the monkey and then the caveman and then the human evolution. We know it. It doesn't make it true.
Christians say the parallel to the nondebatable also. If a cell with such complexity exists then it had to be created, thus their is a Creator. Some creationists say you can't get around everything comes from something--which is what speciation theory states. I say Just cause a statement or theory is phrased so in a careful way not to lend itself debatable according to its definition doesn't make it true and doesn't make it untrue.
"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Answer it yes or no. No matter how you answer it doesn't really allow you address the fact that you may never have beat your wife.
The same way as just because the complete theory of speciation (I do believe in species within its kind being able to adapt to changes and have different characteristics but remain the same species) is not able to be proven on all grounds DOES NOT make it so that God exists. All I'm saying is, just because someone throws a theory out, doesn't mean it's right and not to be questioned just because people don't want it to be.
The way you all see Creationists as crazy is the same way I can see you all as crazy and translate it as:
"Somehow a planet called Earth floating with nothing on it, someway/somehow just one day happened to have some type of cell or organism on it or invade it that came from nowhere. * If you can believe that a cell this complex is floating around in the universe and never contacted Venus, Mars, or any other place and made life within billions of years but just so happened to contact earth and not only contact earth but bare within it every single thing necessary to replicate into two cells, three cells and form everything (plants, animals, rain, death, order, rules, laws of nature, music) you see to be able to perfectly exist within a foreign planet then I can say you have the right to believe what you want. I can understand the rationale, but it doesn't pass the smell test for me and many scientists and people in the world, but on the otherhand it does provide enough for also a lot of people.
The chances and requirements for pure luck, logically would not create such order by a chance encounter. Every observable instance of life on earth shows it has a parent, yet somehow I am to believe spontaneity created life. It doesn't add up no matter how many times you say it happens slowly.
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