The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156666   Message #3700379
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
07-Apr-15 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: BBC v. Jeremy Clarkson.
Subject: RE: BS: BBC v. Jeremy Clarkson.
"If you can't demonstrate it, it is just a belief."

I can't demonstrate anything, pete, because I don't work in the field of evolutionary biology. Nevertheless, thousands of very competent scientists do, and all you have to do is to read up on their findings. Don't expect me to summarise those findings, and to do the work for you, only for you to bleat, "I don't believe it!" and quote waffle at me from some redneck website.

"And just because you know more biology than I proves nothing, anymore than if I know more theology than you."

How does knowing more theology than someone have any bearing on a debate about science?

"And yes I have produced evidence that evolution is impossible, or rather scientists have."

So, let's be clear, have you produced this "evidence" or have "scientists" produced it? And if you've produced the evidence, why not publish it, as Stu suggests?

"As far back as Louis Pasteur it has been demonstrated that life only comes from life, ..."

In which of his works did Louis Pasteur state that "life only comes from life"? Where can I read about 'Pasteur's Law of Nature'? I'm not sure of Pasteur's dates, but can I remind you that an awful lot of science has been done since his day - so some of his conclusions are bound to have been modified, or even over-turned, by now.

"Being as you cannot demonstrate the evolutionary story, it seems to me it is more logical to throw it out."

Far be it from me to arrogantly reject at least 150 years of scientific research (only a fool and complete pillock would do that, pete!)may I remind you, though, that, if tomorrow, the model built on all of that 150 years worth of labour was found to be completely wrong, it still would not mean that your precious bronze-age, middle eastern goat herders' myths and legends are true!

You know, pete, I keep getting this image of you as a stiff-necked, short-sighted pygmy frenziedly attacking a lump of granite with a teaspoon - little realising that the lump of granite is only part of the base a vast mountain (the vast mountain of modern science - just in case you weren't able to figure out the analogy for yourself)! Give it up, pete, modern science has reduced your silly superstitions and baseless beliefs to total irrelevance!