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Evolution is a belief system. Natural selection and variation within a species is a fact.
Devolution is also a fact. Errors in the replication of the genetic code produce flaws in the organism. That is why we lost our tails - devolution - an error. that is why the appendix is unneeded - devolution - an error. Why we are so smart compared to the other apes - our offspring fail to mature at a reasonable rate, thus allowing for a great length of time for imprinting and learning - devolution - an error. Our intelligence is a flaw.
The factual agents of change are extinction and devolution. Show me a new species that has naturally evolved a new and significant useful structure within recorded history?
Most species haven't changed significantly for millions of years and for species for which there is a fossil record, are there not more species in the past than in the present? This clearly means that evolution is not a generalized principle and even evolutionists agree. If evolutions was core and fundamental, why wouldn't we see it? There are "bursts" of evolution according to the current view and some say that it is due to the eccentricities of the solar orbit around the galaxy. That is a lot of millions of years before the theory can be labeled as fact.
The agent of speciation, is just as much hokum and bunk as genesis. Evolution is a religion dressed up like a science. Tom Cruise?
Perhaps the RNA/DNA/Ribosome systems are both the code and the coder through feedback mechanisms as of yet unknown. That makes more sense than simply errors in the coding process.
How valuable and useful are most mutations to higher life forms?
If we were offered the chance to have one for ourselves or our children, I think most of us would pass that evolutionary "advantage" up.
No matter what you think of science, you are still getting your ideas from other apes, devolved or otherwise.
Nowabout all those "evolving" bacteria and viri - well, if they are evolving, should they be at least multicellular organism by now?
Since the creationists shook their tree, evolutionists now use the term to describe ANY change, whereas before, evolution only meant EVOLVING. They lack faith in their own religion. The Pope might as well say, all the mystical mumbo jumbo was made up, but that isn't the point, BELIEVING it is the point.
But, that would be the truth and no one in religion could speak that.
"First we evolved to have tails because that was an advantage, then we evolved to have no tails because that was an advantage."
Have your cake and eat it too!
Science ain't what it used to be.
ARE WE NOT MEN?
D=E=V=O
