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oracle25 said:I always find it amazing how people who don't believe in evolution have a better grasp of it than those that do (tests of students have actually shown this).
Interesting claim. What tests are you refering to?
oracle25 said:Evolution is not that hard to understand (or laugh at).
You're right, it is not that hard to understand. It is a theory about how genetics change over time.
oracle25 said:As the theory goes, some time when the earth was new, in some "worm little pond" (or primordial soup, but thats essentially the same thing) somehow through chemicals coming together combined with lightning it sparked the first life.
Based on your first statement, I guess this means that you believe in evolution because you are demonstrating a lack of a basic understanding of the theory of evolution. Evolution is about the changes in genetics over time, not the origin of life.
oracle25 said:After that through mutations and natural selection
This is where evolution starts, when there is life with DNA that can change. Not the origin of life itself.
oracle25 said:(both of which are not capable of making this work)
Care to prove that with anything other than an argument from incredulity?
Speciation has been observed. Culex molestus speciated from Culex pipiens in the London Underground within the last 150 years or so.
oracle25 said:the organism branched out and became new organisms; which branched out and became new organisms; which branched out and became new organisms, etc, etc, etc. And than some time a few thousand years ago a species of ape branched off and became monkeys and humans.
Well, except for the timeframe, this is almost an accurate accounting of evolution.
oracle25 said:It's a nice story, but as one so eloquently put it "evolution is a fairy tail for grown-ups"
Funny, I can think of no other "fairy tale" that has so much supporting evidence. Fairy tales have about the same amount of evidentiary support that ID has, none.