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Thread #155384   Message #3659359
Posted By: Bill D
11-Sep-14 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Today there was an online article explaining the sequencing of Gibbons' DNA, the last primate species to be finished. There were some surprises of sorts, but even the unusual results gave some new insights into how continental drift and environmental changes affected the evolutionary model and made Gibbons divide into different sub-species very early.... like about 4,000,000 years early.

This and other discoveries just add to our growing list of data which clarify the basic concepts of evolution.

Pete... you, of course, hold to the view that 'scientists are making some basic mistakes, because no DNA/tissue can be more than a few thousand years old'. In all your defenses of that claim, you end up relying on 'faith' in a religious position which itself is defended by purporting to show 'scientific' studies disputing the majority.
   In a strange circular way, those who deny evolution depend on science to argue against science. When specific anti-evolution assertions are supposedly answered, the response is to demand *more proof* in ways that go against all standards of defining scientific method. There is a principle that: "The burden of proof is on the asserter."
   Standard evolutionary theories constantly add & revise THEIR evidence, while those who deny evolution never seem to have anything new to say, but merely re-state the same objections which have already been answered...or invent new definitions to suit their pre-defined conclusions.

It's enough to make one dizzy.........