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God is a concept by which we measure our pain

DearJenny

^Dinosaurs are described in the bible. But its minor, open to interpretation, and commonly overlooked when the topic of creation vs evolution comes up.

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Son of JayJamJah

I hope that no one who has read the bible believes it or follows it

i get high sometimes

Yes, really. You are 12, what? Have you taken not taken 'life science' yet, or whatever kiddie science class they give you guys in 3rd grade?

MHDTV

Actually I started 7th grade today. Do you know what causes evolution? Theoretically anyway.

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DontRunMeOver

Mutations of DNA, followed by continuation of the strain if the organism survives and reproduces and spread of the new mutation if it gives the organism a survival benefit.

Evolution = Continuation of beneficial mutations.

Modern knowledge of evolution is not to be confused with Darwinism, which is like confusing modern quantum physics with Newton's work. Newton and Darwin were both geniuses (Newton much more so) but there were still a LOT of flaws in their work - they were only individual people after all and access to scientific literature, computers and other electronic research aids was a bit thin on the ground, so they had to make do with levers, pulleys and drawing pictures of finches. Which is kind of limiting.

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MHDTV

Exactly, and I'm certainly not saying I believe this, but many would say that that is proof of intelligent design. Once again, I don't believe that but I'm just making the point that that isn't proof that God doesn't exist, as you implyed.

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DontRunMeOver

It's a good thing you're not saying you believe it's proof of intelligent design because I can't see how it would be. Evolution isn't really proof of anything much. All the current scientific knowledge tells us is that mutatation and the following 'natural selection' is one process that happens. There are lots of other possible processes which could happen, from the extremes of randomness to intelligent design and everything in between, and it could have been any combination of these unknowns which brought things to where they are today.

I think that evolution theories are currently focussed on the effects of DNA mutation because Crick and Watson happened to crack the structure of DNA in the 1950's (I think) so it's given scientists a better grip on that piece of the puzzle than they might have on other aspects of evolution theory. As with many things in science, until you have the 'paradigm shift' necessary to jump to another level of research then comparitively little progress gets made and I'm pretty sure that were a good few paradigm shifts away from even understanding evolution to a decent extent let alone having any explanation for the history of evolution beyond invoking some god/gods that people made up rather than admit they didn't know why anything was happening.

Also because they realise it'll win them brownie points with the prison authorities and being 're-born' helps them in trying to distance themselves from whatever crime they committed (almost like a metaphysical cry of "It wasn't me!")

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