Saturday, December 28, 2013

Evolution vs God | Confessions Of A YEC

http://confessionsofayec.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/evolution-vs-god/



There are a couple of things that stood out for me.

Kinds

The creationist adherence to the word 'kinds' is as meaningless as it is annoying. Biologically, it has no definition and that gives Comfort infinite weasel room. At one point he asks for an observable example of one animal changing. A few examples of speciation are given. PZ Myers gives the best one, which is a fish type in a lake in Africa (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijeb/2012/349485/). The predictable response is 'but they are still fish'.
Well, of course they're still freaking fish you moron!
The fish species given in the example have changed to a different fish with different attributes and characteristics and don't inter mate. Comfort knows this is how Evolution works and is simply pandering to something that requires such a long period of time that it is only possible for us to show the smaller step of a species changing into a different sub-species.

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