The probability that life could occur without the aid of God

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
If evolution happens over millions of years how would it be observed and reproduced? I guess you could find a fossil like a tooth and guess what the rest of the creature looks like. More like art than science. Requires a lot of creativity and imagination.

Artists who draw the things Evolutionists wish to imagine greatly drives public acceptance of many of these ideas.

It is not too unlike people who are more influenced by the artistic depictions of Bible stories hold more influence over them than actually reading the Bible.

Originally posted by sonship
Artists who draw the things Evolutionists wish to imagine greatly drives public acceptance of many of these ideas.

It is not too unlike people who are more influenced by the artistic depictions of Bible stories hold more influence over them than actually reading the Bible.

I think you are confusing dinosaur enthusiasm with evolution.

Originally posted by DeepThought
There have been experiment on drosophila (fruit flies) where they have bred them in different artificial environments and speciation, at the level of mating preference, occurred. From memory it required fifty generations. Not only are such experiments possible, they have been performed.

Started off with fruit flies and ended with fruit flies?

Originally posted by twhitehead
I think you are confusing dinosaur enthusiasm with evolution.

And I think you are confusion evolution with dinosaur enthusiasm.

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
And I think you are confusion evolution with dinosaur enthusiasm.

And I think you are just plain confused. We are still waiting to hear where the sun went.

Originally posted by twhitehead
And I think you are just plain confused. We are still waiting to hear where the sun went.

I assume you imagine it to have been in the sky after all?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
I assume you imagine it to have been in the sky after all?

Of course, where else would it be?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Of course, where else would it be?

So it has always been there since the beginning of time?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
So it has always been there since the beginning of time?

Are you just going to keep on asking stupid questions, or are you just that ignorant?

Originally posted by twhitehead
Are you just going to keep on asking stupid questions, or are you just that ignorant?

A question is always stupid when you can't answer it. You are the one who claims to know everything. Feel free to enlighten us.

Originally posted by sonship

Evolution has been observed and is reproducible.

Change is observed. Change in, for example, sizes and shapes of finch beaks has been observed. Other changes of natural selection have been observed.

The question is how much can this be extrapolated?
Can we extrapolate this kind of change to propose that a unguided and purposeles ...[text shortened]... pment of all species from a common simple first organism?

Do you think we can go overboard ?

Evolution has been observed. I don't see how you can acknowledge "some" evolution without acknowledging evolution in general. What's stopping "some" evolution from becoming "a lot" of evolution?

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
Started off with fruit flies and ended with fruit flies?

For an explanation of the concept of speciation, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
Evolution has been observed. I don't see how you can acknowledge "some" evolution without acknowledging evolution in general. What's stopping "some" evolution from becoming "a lot" of evolution?

Yeah sure we observe a fruit fly evolving into another fruit fly. That means without a shadow of a doubt that a blob of goo by way of the zoo became you.

Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
A question is always stupid when you can't answer it.

Of course I can answer it. I just can't believe you are that ignorant to not already know the answer I would give, so I am wondering why you keep on asking stupid questions.

You are the one who claims to know everything. Feel free to enlighten us.
I have never once claimed to know everything.

Originally posted by twhitehead
Of course I can answer it. I just can't believe you are that ignorant to not already know the answer I would give, so I am wondering why you keep on asking stupid questions.

[b]You are the one who claims to know everything. Feel free to enlighten us.
I have never once claimed to know everything.[/b]

If you can answer it why don't you answer it? You know perfectly well that mostly everything related to the primordial soup is guess work and purely imaginitive yet there are claims that only Theists are imagining things and that your position is somehow more tenable.