Vestigial Organs evolution myth

[Timmy]

Re: Vistigial Organs evolution myth

This is quite an interesting topic, some really quality contributions. It would be best to leave out the hidden agenda and have a quality discussion free of, I think it was, irrationality and paranoia, shadow jumping, calling people feral, and requesting people grow some balls!

 

[trainspotter]

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Considered my fuse blown ktrianta. IMO Spooly74 has hit the ball clean out of the park. You might want to go and fetch it. Here is the new way of teaching the kiddies in school Creationism.

 

[trainspotter]

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My favourite line - “Intelligent Design” is religious mythology. If you are not capable of distinguishing between reality and mythology, you have an unresolved problem in your educational background.

Here ya go ktrianta, an opposing view and a website that is not a "myth" Oooopsies ... some good stuff here that makes sense.

http://www.durangobill.com/Creationism.html

You want religion ?? “I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. :-- Deuteronomy 32:39-42”

Lovely stuff here petal, just lovely.

 

[trainspotter]

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What do you reckon the mythology of intelligent design was with this freak of nature ? An axolotl or Mexican walking salamander. Maybe God was having an "off" day?

 

[derty]

Re: Vistigial Organs evolution myth

Here is a site that addresses the vestigial argument from the scientific side of the argument. The linked page is part of a much larger site that covers the main areas of support for macroevolution:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/section2.html

 

[boofhead]

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Someone should people the people at talkorigins to update their story after the recent findings. It may also make them think more deeply about what else is on there. I'm not saying they are right or wrong.

After reading the posts beween my two posts so far in this thread it seems people aren't reading things properly.

My understanding is not about evolution vs creation. It is not even about evolution being a myth. It's about the appendix and how that fits in to various teachings and ideas that fits in to a part of evolution theory. Imagine evolution have 100 aspects. If one aspect is shown to not be 100% as it was thought that leaves 99 aspects. That 1 changes does not invalidate the overall teachings of evolution.

 

[trainspotter]

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LOL boofhead ... you are a bloody genius. !!

 

[Knobby22]

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Someone should people the people at talkorigins to update their story after the recent findings. It may also make them think more deeply about what else is on there. I'm not saying they are right or wrong.

After reading the posts beween my two posts so far in this thread it seems people aren't reading things properly.

My understanding is not about evolution vs creation. It is not even about evolution being a myth. It's about the appendix and how that fits in to various teachings and ideas that fits in to a part of evolution theory. Imagine evolution have 100 aspects. If one aspect is shown to not be 100% as it was thought that leaves 99 aspects. That 1 changes does not invalidate the overall teachings of evolution.

Well put Boofhead.
Also, the theory of evolution is always being revised. For instance, there is a lot of work going on with regard to environmental effects on which genes switch on.

The theory of evolution is also undeniably pretty accurate with respect to what happens in the real world. Look at how the Cane Toad has grown longer legs to travel Australia quicker and how bacteria mutate to obtain resistance to antibiotics.

 

[boofhead]

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Right. Our understanding of genetics is always being revised with it which may help explain some aspects of evolution. Remember a time when much of DNA was called junk and served no purpose? Now purposes are being found. How about a time when genetic variations that produced the same proteins were thought of as being nothing to look at? They are now thought of to actually make a difference. Some magazines like New Scientist and others have some good articles.

 

[Knobby22]

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Yes, I read New Scientist.
My wife calls it Mad Scientist