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edit: "Translation: You stated the belief of those that agree with you.
Kelly"

You translation is wrong, KJ.
I obviously stated that the whole process that bucks up the theory of the evolution (sciences evolved, evidence from a whole complex of scientific fields, finds accepted in full by a whole complex of sciences, constant cross-checks from scientists who are well recognized by the scintific community) is by far more consistent and has by far more possibilities to be true than the theoty of the evolution. In fact the theory of evolution is so concrete that is accepted by important religious figures and reknowned Christian evolutionists. And I asked you to prove that all this process is false, that all these sciences are mising the point and that all those scientists who worked on this issue are frauds. So here I am, waiting for your answer.

I also posted the following:
"On the other hand I have to respond to another issue that you posed when you claimed that I made you sick; I had a slightly clear image of yours due to other comments you posted elsewhere, and reading them I assumed that you are a good Christian (although I don't know which dogma you follow, but this is meaningless to me). Therefore I mentioned that your opinion regarding the theory of the evolution reflects your Christian faith, but maybe I 'm wrong. Maybe you are not a creationist afterall. Many evolutionary biologists and important religious figures like Pope John Paul II agree that the time-tested theory of evolution does not refute the presence of "god". They acknowledge that evolution is the description of a process that governs the development of life on Earth. Well, if you are a creationist, you shouldn't feel sick just because I mentioned the truth; and if you are an evolutionist who believes that through this way "god" governs the process of life on our planet, then again my quote is accurate because your opinion derives allright from your Christian faith;"

I 'm eager for your reply, KJ;

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edit: "What?
You are sure evoution has more possiblities to be true than creation,
why do you think that?"

KJ,

I am sure that evolution has by far more posibilities to be true than creationism because every scientific attempt aiming to prove that the theory is false untill this very moment has failed. If you disagree, bring up some scientific evidence that prove the opposite;

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edit: "Truth is what it is, when we are speaking of a
single event either you describe it correctly or not, having more choices may give you more shots at getting it right, but it does not mean that any of your choices are right it only means you have more choices at being wrong. You only require one to be right.
Kelly"

The scientists from a very extended scientific spectrum gradually combine their finds and continue constantly their work, their experiments and their studies. Univercities and labs from all around the dial are a huge force that pushes hard in order to boost our knowlegde. Slowly but steadily all these scientits combine this huge puzzle and gradually they fill the missing points using by far more advanced ways, which even Lamarc and Darwin could not imagine. This is how the science evolves.
So the theory of the evolution is not just an abstract idea or a delusion written down at a nice island of my country, KJ;

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And I will make a correction.
I posted above ":I stated before that I obviously stated that the whole process that bucks up the theory of the evolution (sciences evolved, evidence from a whole complex of scientific fields, finds accepted in full by a whole complex of sciences, constant cross-checks from scientists who are well recognized by the scintific community) is by far more consistent and has by far more possibilities to be true than the theoty of the evolution".

The last phrase is obviously "...is by far more consistent and has by far more possibilities to be true than the creationism"; sorry for this mistake.

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Originally posted by black beetle
And I will make a correction.
I posted above ":I stated before that I obviously stated that the whole process that bucks up the theory of the evolution (sciences evolved, evidence from a whole complex of scientific fields, finds accepted in full by a whole complex of sciences, constant cross-checks from scientists who are well recognized by the scintif and has by far more possibilities to be true than the creationism"; sorry for this mistake.
Again, how it all began was simply the way it was done. You can have
a million different shots at getting that description correct about the
way it happened, and if none of them describe it correctly you are a flat
out failure. If you have one description of the event, and it did indeed
get it right that is that, the number of possible outcomes by those that
are getting it wrong will not change anything one way or another, the
odds will never really improve beyond zero if you are missing the
mark. If you are trying to imply your description's odds are better at
being right, I'll just say I'm sure you believe that.
Kelly

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edit: "Again, how it all began was simply the way it was done."

KJ,

Not at all. The reasons that caused the Life to appear is clearly another issue. The theory of the evolution has to do with the concept that every creature of our planet evolved from a common ancestor. When we finish this very discussion we may talk about "how all began" and who was the factor that "designed" that common ancestor;

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Originally posted by black beetle
edit: "Again, how it all began was simply the way it was done."

KJ,

Not at all. The reasons that caused the Life to appear is clearly another issue. The theory of the evolution has to do with the concept that every creature of our planet evolved from a common ancestor. When we finish this very discussion we may talk about "how all began" and who was the factor that "designed" that common ancestor;
You seem to mix apples and oranges a lot when speaking about
subjects. I agree the reasons that could cause life are quite apart from
the reasons that an eye would form. I still do not see any reason to
why one would, I understand you claim early eyes were simpler that
predate some today, but that only shows that some simpler eyes
predate the modern ones, nothing more if the dating methods are
correct, and for this debate say they are. It could be they were just
a different life form with a different set of eyes, not one that is not
an ancestor to the human race.
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
You seem to mix apples and oranges a lot when speaking about
subjects. I agree the reasons that could cause life are quite apart from
the reasons that an eye would form. I still do not see any reason to
why one would, I understand you claim early eyes were simpler that
predate some today, but that only shows that some simpler eyes
predate the modern on ...[text shortened]... fe form with a different set of eyes, not one that is not
an ancestor to the human race.
Kelly
You clearly avoid to state clearly your thesis regarding the fact -I will post it to you for another time in case you missed it- that many evolutionary biologists and important religious figures like Pope John Paul II agree that the time-tested theory of evolution does not refute the presence of "god". They acknowledge that evolution is the description of a process that governs the development of life on Earth. Well, if you are a creationist, you shouldn't feel sick just because I mentioned the truth; and if you are an evolutionist who believes that through this way "god" governs the process of life on our planet, then again my quote is accurate because your opinion derives allright from your Christian faith;".

In addition, "you still do not see it" just because you don't want to see it, and on the other hand you don't bring up scientific evidence capable to prove that the theory of the evolution is false and that the scientists who worked on this issue are frauds.

So KJ, here we are. When you bring up some evidence we may keep up our conversation.-

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Originally posted by black beetle
You clearly avoid to state clearly your thesis regarding the fact -I will post it to you for another time in case you missed it- that many evolutionary biologists and important religious figures like Pope John Paul II agree that the time-tested theory of evolution does not refute the presence of "god". They acknowledge that evolution is the description
So KJ, here we are. When you bring up some evidence we may keep up our conversation.-
I'm in complete agreement, evolution does not do add to or take
away from creation, the age of the earth also does not add to or
take away from creation. Specific views about creation may be in
direct conflict with specific views about evolution or the age of the
earth, but over all I have always maintained that as true.

Having said that, my complaint with your statement has nothing to do
with my religion! It has to do with the logic you use, you seem to
suggest if X is true, Y must be. I have been attempting to ask you
to show me why that is true, and my religion has nothing to do with
the questions I have been asking you!

If we can avoid, references to anything outside of direct questions
being asked I think you will see what I'm trying to get at, instead of
trying to read and figure out my motivations for asking.

If you are willing can we attempt to discuss the evolution of the eye
again?

I have reasons for my disagreements to date with all that I have seen
put forward as why it is accepted that eye sight could or would possible
to come into being with nothing but evolution without direction by any
thing at all except the laws of the universe in place. These are the
reasons I have gotten from you except when you told me to go read a
book, if I’m being to simplistic or misrepresenting something speak
up, I only want to give you what I have gotten from our conversations
to date.

Reasons the eye could come from evolution:

1.There are a large variety of eyes in the here and now.
2.There are simpler eyes predated life forms in the here and now
3.A light sensitive stop could have appeared on a life form through DNA
a. Once the spot appeared in DNA it becomes part of all subsequent
generations that follow.

b. The new light sensitive stop would be able to pass on the new
information about light it is getting into the life form so that choices,
or some direction could be made utilizing the advantage. This too
would to be passed down through all subsequent generations ever
improving the process as time goes on.
c. Receiving this new information about light that no creature until
then has ever received would be an advantage to the ones
that got it.
4. A lot of people in certain fields of study seem to confirm this, and
accept it as true.

Now please note, nothing about what I have brought up has religion attached to it.
Kelly

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Originally posted by KellyJay
I'm in complete agreement, evolution does not do add to or take
away from creation, the age of the earth also does not add to or
take away from creation. Specific views about creation may be in
direct conflict with specific views about evolution or the age of the
earth, but over all I have always maintained that as true.

Having said that, my complain ...[text shortened]... .

Now please note, nothing about what I have brought up has religion attached to it.
Kelly
Hi Kj just putting my tuppence worth in...


I still feel you are trying to move too fast in this arena, however strongly you feel about evolution.

The main reason I think you have your face set against these concepts is the wording you use eg 'Reasons the eye could come from evolution'. You need to move carefully here. Nothing 'comes' from evolution. The theory says quite simply, that generation at a time, an organism that has higher 'survivability' than it's neighbour will tend to be selected for; where 'survivability' includes the concept of reproduction. This means that the genes the organism is made from will also tend to be expressed in the following generation, etc etc etc.

Over tens/hundreds/thousands of generations, genes that add survivability will tend to spread in a population. This is a huge area of study and I still feel you need to allow time for the concept to take hold.

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Originally posted by snowinscotland
Hi Kj just putting my tuppence worth in...


I still feel you are trying to move too fast in this arena, however strongly you feel about evolution.

The main reason I think you have your face set against these concepts is the wording you use eg 'Reasons the eye could come from evolution'. You need to move carefully here. Nothing 'comes' from evol uge area of study and I still feel you need to allow time for the concept to take hold.
An earlier discussion centered only on the eye, I'm trying to stay on
topic. I'm not against the concept of evolution, I actually believe it
occurs depending on how you define it, but I cannot accept some
notions that are put forward with evolution getting the credit, and the
eye is one of the bigger ones when it comes to how it began, and
over time changed into what we 'see' today.

So my last post was just to try and see if I understand what he has
put forward, we need to start with us both talking about the same
things the same way before we can move forward, or we will continue
to talk each other.
Kellyy

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Originally posted by KellyJay
An earlier discussion centered only on the eye, I'm trying to stay on
topic. I'm not against the concept of evolution, I actually believe it
occurs depending on how you define it, but I cannot accept some
notions that are put forward with evolution getting the credit, and the
eye is one of the bigger ones when it comes to how it began, and
over time ch ...[text shortened]... gs the same way before we can move forward, or we will continue
to talk each other.
Kellyy
KJ - if you had bothered to look you would realise the volume of information on the evolution of the eye is quiet overwhelming. I know you aren't truely interested in the evidence for this; so I won't waste any time on you other than this:

On the internet, access www.google.com and then find the link for google scholar. Enter the search string "evolution of the eye", there are many free PDF's here. It is a big field of study, thats made progressive findings for many years. So once you find a paper that you can understand, you will have to start following the paper trail of the references from these papers to get a good overview of the field (as most paper will be extremely specific).

Good luck - if you honestly want to understand how the eye has evolved, the above will answer and explain in more detail than you could imagine. They've even found a common gene (please tell me you beleive in genes).

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edit: “ I'm in complete agreement, evolution does not do add to or take away from creation, the age of the earth also does not add to or
take away from creation. Specific views about creation may be in
direct conflict with specific views about evolution or the age of the
earth, but over all I have always maintained that as true.”

Not exactly KJ! I noted that even the Pope etc. accept that the theory of the evolution does not refute the presence of “god”. But the evolution is clearly against the theory of the creation because its core is that every kind/ form of Life derived from a unique and common Ancestor (the theists that accept the theory of the evolution claim that the common Ancestor was created by “god&rdquo😉. The scientists are seeking constantly to find the missing links, and if in the future they find a mere single fact against the theory they will conclude that the evolutionism is false and therefore they will start again their process based on the new fact. I simply say that nobody can bring today a fact against evolution, and so started our conversation about the evolution of the eye.

Now, it is unreasonable to accept partly the theory of the evolution, ie to claim that we humans don’t have a common Ancestor, due to the fact that till now there is not any scientific evidence against it -instead, every evidence shows the opposite; the string is not “egg-chicken-egg” but “Ancestor-all species”, and one of these species is the human race as we know it today.

Furthermore, the claim that the eye is an organ that does not cope with the theory of the evolution is wrong, for reasons which are already posted previously by me , and the acknowledged scientific thesis is that the camera-like vertebrate eye already existed in the last common ancestor between jawless and jawed vertebrates, about 500 million years ago. The molecular components of vertebrate photoreceptors were modified from those found in invertebrate photoreceptors, and thus there is already a multistep sequence of events that result in the formation of the vertebrate eye in the way that occurs due to the theory of the evolution and not due to the theory of the creation. In the future more experiments will help refine the certainty and precision of our nowdays understanding of the evolution of the eye, but the evolution of the eye itself is well understood at the anatomical, physiological and molecular levels no matter if a non scientist is unable to grasp it. If you doubt it, it is you who must bring evidence; your mere “opinion” or my mere “opinion” have nothing to do with the fact that evolutionism is a theory that until this very moment stands perfectly.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
An earlier discussion centered only on the eye, I'm trying to stay on
topic. I'm not against the concept of evolution, I actually believe it
occurs depending on how you define it, but I cannot accept some
notions that are put forward with evolution getting the credit, and the
eye is one of the bigger ones when it comes to how it began, and
over time ch gs the same way before we can move forward, or we will continue
to talk each other.
Kellyy
For one thing, the eye evolved independently at least 4 times over the course of millions of years. There is also reverse evolution, life forms that HAD eyes and gradually lost them like salamanders in dark caves with never a photon of light.
Human eyes are for sure not the pinnacle of creation, for instance, placing of blood vessels IN FRONT of light detectors? Dumb idea. The number of photosensitive cells in human eyes are around 200,000 in about one square inch of surface, not bad, but eagles have 1,000,000 sensors in the same space. So in that regard, EAGLES are the pinnacle of creation.
You also asked way back buried in the posts about evidence creationists use what they laughingly call science to force their way into secular schools to teach creationism. That is a fact, there are many examples of school boards run by creationists trying to force their creationist views in a science class. For instance, in my own grade school, the first lutheran school of El Monte, California, there was never even the mention of the WORD evolution, only ridicule by the teachers, I heard that ridicule with my own ears, there was a definite anti-science slant taught by the PRINCIPLE of my grade school, trying to discredit science, with statements like 'scientists say heat rises, so why does ice form on top of the water?" With absolutely no desire to actually tell the kids why ice forms on top, just to try to discredit science in general.
The latest attack on evolution is the 'freedom of expression' attack, trying to force yet again, the addition of creationism inside a real science classroom, forcing it to be taught side by side with evolution.
These are blatant attempts of christians to force their tired dogma onto yet another generation of malleable minds. Which is why I say religious dogma like christianity attempts to keep the mind of people like children, not wanting them to actually think for themselves, but only to obey dogma.
For instance, creationists are the only ones saying we 'came from' or 'decended from' apes.
Creationists know full well evolutionists say no such thing, saying instead both apes and humans decended from a common ancestor. But creationists perverted the whole concept just to create dissention and thus to give their own views plausibility, much like a lawyer perverts testimony to give reasonable doubt as to a guilty verdict. They lawyer up in fact.

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Originally posted by timebombted
KJ - if you had bothered to look you would realise the volume of information on the evolution of the eye is quiet overwhelming. I know you aren't truely interested in the evidence for this; so I won't waste any time on you other than this:

On the internet, access www.google.com and then find the link for google scholar. Enter the search string "evolut ...[text shortened]... you could imagine. They've even found a common gene (please tell me you beleive in genes).
I understand there is a wealth of views about evolution and the eye,
I've read a few. If I wanted to read a web site I'd go to one, if I wanted
to read a book I'd buy one. I wanted an opinion, a discussion on the
topic here with the person I was talking to for their opinion on why they
think the way they do, I cannot get that out of a web site or book
unless they wrote them.
Kelly

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