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Old Apr 26, 2008, 02:33 pm   #2245 (permalink) (top)
Jack
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I watched it. If you'd like to see the full 2 hours of it, go here.

The point was made and ignored that Comfort and Cameron do not understand evolutionary theory and are arguing against suppositions that the theory does not make.

For example, Cameron calls evolution a pre-supposition, a conclusion reached before any evidence is presented. Any honest person, Christian included, should be able to see the falsity of that statement. Darwin and every evolutionary biologist since him has looked at existing evidence to reach the conclusion that evolution is the best natural explanation we can come up with to account for the evidence found. It's a conclusion based on the evidence. The explanation must always follow the evidence.

Cameron and Comfort do not understand what a transitional stage is or what transitional fossils represent. As was stated, evolution is always occurring. We are transitional forms between our ancestors and what humans will evolve into. The expectation that we'll find a fossil half-duck and half-dog are nonsensical and misrepresent how evolution works.

Comfort loves to display his ignorance. His most foolish video shows him describing how a banana is evidence of god since it fits our hand so perfectly. Well, the banana he uses in his video is a cultured banana, a product of selective evolution. A natural banana looks like this:

That hardly meets Comfort's criteria for a fruit designed to accommodate our hands by god.

If anyone wishes to debunk evolution they need to do more than point out the problems with the current theory. That's not debunking, that's just showing where our imperfect science has yet to account for evidence. They need to propose a better theory, one that accounts for the evidence better than evolution does, and that can be tested and verified by any scientists who wishes to do so.

Otherwise, like Comfort and Cameron, they're just displaying their lack of education and earning our disdain.


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