Evolutionists should know other theories as well, or do they fear them?
50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
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Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#22I love science & technology therefore I'm alarmed because so many scientist and technologist don't see the inherit paradox in evolution. Natural selection makes it virtually impossible for animals to adapt via the proposed mutations. Natural selection happens immediately, valuable life preserving mutations are suppose occur (typically) over thousands of years. To illustrate Arctic terns are dying because they are not…
Congratulations, you are front row center to a mass extinction event. There was not time for the dinosaurs to react to the meteor either.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#23We should exclude such people from educational institutes by nature of belief. They're not teaching science if they already have an agenda, bias or belief and allow it to interfere with objectivity and professionalism. In fact any religious school or education institute should be of independent of religion how the church and state supposedly are. This shit is unfortunately rife. I had to explain this to my daughter's…
Frightening to hear. I don't have children yet, but stories like this make me think about wanting to homeschool.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#24I love science & technology therefore I'm alarmed because so many scientist and technologist don't see the inherit paradox in evolution. Natural selection makes it virtually impossible for animals to adapt via the proposed mutations. Natural selection happens immediately, valuable life preserving mutations are suppose occur (typically) over thousands of years. To illustrate Arctic terns are dying because they are not…
The terns able to dive deeper (for whatever physical reason) survive and breed.
Exactly, survival for most animals are always based on their immediate ability to adapt, not the ability to adapt over thousands of years, that is the paradox
of evolution. Animals supposedly evolved to have these specialized features essential for survival over thousands of years, but natural selection is in conflict. Animals need to survive their conditions immediately, they can't wait for their bodies to evolve.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#25Evolution can be further classified into "microevolution" and "macroevolution". Evidence for microevolution is directly observable (e.g. bacteria adapting to changes of nutrients in their environment, viruses adapting to vaccines). However macroevolution has never been directly observed. It is extrapolated from considering what occurs after a multitude of generations of microevolution. An interesting new documentary examines this in more detail: http://evolutionvsgod.com/
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#26The Catholic Church's current belief is there is no conflict between evolution and church teachings. They do believe evolution was divinely inspired. They also go with the scientific theories on age of earth and gradual appearance of life. Its interesting to see the difference between the actual Catholic doctrine and those that broke away. If the non-evolution Christian truly needs everything spelled out, Genesis 1:2…
The evangelical Protestant / baptist / psycho nutjob sects of North America believe that Catholics are evil polytheists anyway, and can probably use the Catholic Churches non-repudiation of evolution as more evidence of how evil the Catholics are.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#27When I see how Koreans are playing Starcraft I start to have doubts about evolution myself...
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#28I love science & technology therefore I'm alarmed because so many scientist and technologist don't see the inherit paradox in evolution. Natural selection makes it virtually impossible for animals to adapt via the proposed mutations. Natural selection happens immediately, valuable life preserving mutations are suppose occur (typically) over thousands of years. To illustrate Arctic terns are dying because they are not…
Your example proves the exact opposite of what you think; natural selection works as we suspect. The environment changed, the creatures best suited for the new environment will survive.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#29The Catholic Church's current belief is there is no conflict between evolution and church teachings. They do believe evolution was divinely inspired. They also go with the scientific theories on age of earth and gradual appearance of life. Its interesting to see the difference between the actual Catholic doctrine and those that broke away. If the non-evolution Christian truly needs everything spelled out, Genesis 1:2…
This. The Catholic Church supports both the Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory (no jokes about the TV show please). So don't blame the Catholic Church for this one. Given that South Korea is split between Catholics and Buddhists, it doesn't seem like there is a particularly religious reason for this trend.
Re: 50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes you are creating something out of chaos because you have an algorithm. No algorithm, no programming means you can't create.
Hi! Have you ever played Conway's game of life? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life It hasno algorithm, only a few simple rules from which order arises from chaos. Give it a shot, you may like it. As a practicing Christian, I see no reason evolution can't be exactly what we scientists observe it to be: a process by which beneficial adaptations are passed down to succeeding generations. Much like in sof…
That page exactly describes an algorithm.