Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Wistar Symposium "Mathematical Challenge to Neo-Darwinism". Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:22:19 -0400 Organization: What are you looking for? Lines: 112 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <5sm76jlrljfct3b1mdqfqfakpd0iu4efgm@4ax.com> <9foaO.3961$eX68.449@fx18.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="27438"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 8275B229870; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:22:10 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6892C22986E for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:22:08 -0400 (EDT) id D9E3A5DC6C; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D089E5DC4B for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:22:21 +0000 (UTC) by nntpmail01.iad.omicronmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 801C3E1545 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:22:20 +0000 (UTC) id 53258120019B; Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:22:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Path: fx09.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:22:19 UTC Bytes: 6517 On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:16:53 -0400, Ron Dean wrote: >jillery wrote: >>>> Once again, your line of reasoning is based on your asinine >>>> assumptions that "rapid" and "gradual" specify a particular amount = of >>>> change and a particular period of time. >>>> >>> No! Not particular: gradual change over time is evolutionary change = over >>> some time factor. >>> Rapid Change could imply change over a comparatively short period = time - >>> say 100,000 years. >>=20 >>=20 >> Rapid change *could* imply lots of things. The point is, regardless >> of the time period, it's still evolution. Not sure how even you still >> don't understand this. >>=20 >The problem is we observe the results of evolutionary, and rarely if=20 >ever the actual evolution. The problem is your comments above are incoherent gibberish. Add the above to your previous nonsense, that "stasis is the exact opposite of gradual change", and all you manage to prove is you have no idea what you're talking about. > What's >observed is captured in a schematic demonstrating _evolution_ of a=20 >daughter species by a dotted line and stasis is depicted as a wavy line=20 >that ends up with the daughter line looking quite the same at the end as= =20 >at the beginning. > > = https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/evolution/punctuated-equi= librium-and-stasis/ It's no surprise you don't understand your own cites. Do everybody a favor and try to explain how your cite above is evidence against Darwinian evolution and for ID. >>> They do not. You would know >>>> this if you read anything without your cdesign proponentsists = glasses. >>>> >>> The views I express are mine, not those of cdesign proponents. >>=20 >>=20 >> Based on your posts, you're unambiguously a cdesign proponentist. Not >> sure how even you still don't recognize this. >>=20 >I do recognize and acknowledge myself as intelligent design proponent.=20 And the difference between "intelligent design proponent" and "cdesign proponentsist" is... ??? You don't say. Why is that? >As I see it, design is obvious and real, not apparent or an illusion as=20 >is described by Richard Dawkins. >Dawkins defines "biology as the study of complicated things that give=20 >the appearance of having been designed for a purpose=E2=80=99, he = believes that=20 >appearances are deceiving. Biological things are designoid: = =E2=80=98Designoid=20 >objects that look designed, so much so that some people =E2=80=93 = probably,=20 >alas, most people =E2=80=93 think that they are designed. These people = are=20 >wrong, the true explanation =E2=80=93 Darwinian natural selection = =E2=80=93 is very=20 >different." > >Here is a quote from Richard Dawkins: =E2=80=9CBiology is the study of=20 >complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for=20 >a purpose.=E2=80=9D {Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, p. 1} > Dawkins uses the word 'overwhelming' in his description of "apparent=20 >and illusionary design." =E2=80=9CNatural selection is the blind = watchmaker,=20 >blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no=20 >purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection=20 >overwhelmingly impress us with the illusion of design and = planning.=E2=80=9D=20 >{Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, p. 21.} > >So, it's obvious that Dawkins a a professed atheist has no alternative,=20 >but to explain away deliberate, purposeful, observed design, then he=20 >turns to natural processes as a means of defense of his atheist bias by=20 >explaining away what could very well be observed as deliberate=20 >purposeful design to anyone who not committed. > > >https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D2597924 Once again, you jump from an incoherent ramble about Gould and PE to an incoherent ramble about Dawkins and atheism, without even trying to explain how anything you wrote disproves evolution or supports ID. Why is that? -- To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge