About the only place you can find any acceptance for evolutionary theory is in the ivory towers of the universitys. You do not find it out in the real world, because it does not work in the real world.
Darwin worked as a map maker for the first five years after he finished his school. But after that, he sat down and did nothing for the rest of his life. It could be that he got sick during that 5 years. But after that, evolution was a hobby for him. Something that he thought about to use up all the time he had.
It is not something that he used or developed in a real world situation. Or anything that anyone has used or developed in a real world situation. No one has ever found a way to develop it in a practical way. Real science has rejected it from the beginning. Not the ivory tower science, but the movers and the shakers. The people who are out there in the real world getting the job done.
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Wow. The stupid flows strong in JohnR7 today. Do you think he really doesn't know that Darwin actually based his theories on, y'know, EVIDENCE that he gathered HIMSELF while on a MULTI-YEAR VOYAGE in the GALAPAGOS ISLANDS?
"About the only place you can find any acceptance for evolutionary theory is in the ivory towers of the universitys. You do not find it out in the real world, because it does not work in the real world.
One word: Antibiotics.
~David D.G.
So? Even if Darwin worked as a map maker, that does not invalidate evolution. The inventor of reinforced concrete was just looking for a way to make larger pots for his plants (oranges if I remember correctly). Does this mean that reinforced concrete is just a fantasy spread from those ivory towers?
"Darwin worked as a map maker for the first five years after he finished his school. But after that, he sat down and did nothing for the rest of his life. It could be that he got sick during that 5 years. But after that, evolution was a hobby for him. Something that he thought about to use up all the time he had."
"About the only place you can find any acceptance for evolutionary theory is in the ivory towers of the universitys."That's untrue. I accept the ToE and I do not work in a university.
I find it amusing that Fundies often attack the ToE, and other ideas that scare them, as being the product of or supported by the intelligent people, as if being stupid and uneducated is somehow better and more noble.
"You do not find it out in the real world, because it does not work in the real world."
Just because YOU don't understand it, Johnny, doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Also, since you and your pals live under the delusions of Xian theology, I submit that YOU are not living in the real world. Plenty of us who do not believe in omnipotent imaginary friends accept the ToE, and understand how it works. we are the one's in the real world.
"Darwin worked as a map maker for the first five years after he finished his school. But after that, he sat down and did nothing for the rest of his life."
You've never read Darwin's books nor have you read non-Fundie histories of Darwin. That makes you utterly unqualified to comment on Darwin's works or life, so SHUT UP!
"It could be that he got sick during that 5 years. But after that, evolution was a hobby for him. Something that he thought about to use up all the time he had.'
You just got through tell us that Darwin did nothing after his 5 years as a map-maker. You can't even write 3 sentences and keep your story straight.
"It is not something that he used or developed in a real world situation. Or anything that anyone has used or developed in a real world situation. No one has ever found a way to develop it in a practical way."
Well, yeah, except for modern medicine, genetics, agriculture, etc..
"Real science has rejected it from the beginning."
So, modern medicine, genetics and agriculture are not "real science?" Fundie morons have rejected it, but not most scientists.
"Not the ivory tower science, but the movers and the shakers."
So, the smart people accept the ToE, but Fundie morons who work for Bekins or have Parkinson's disease don't accept it?
"The people who are out there in the real world getting the job done."
The people who are out there in the real world getting the job done with tools and strategies invented and developed by the smart people who accept the ToE.
I looked, but I couldn't find any reference to Darwin being a mapmaker (outside of John-R-stupid's imagination). Darwin was at school (Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was preparing for a career as a christian clergyman) when he was given the opportunity to serve on the Beagle as a naturalist so he could help identify the flora and fauna of the areas the ship visited.
g-21-lto: Agreed. However, this post could easily qualify for a Historical, Biographical, and Science Revisionist Award -- or maybe Post of the Month at the very least.
"Darwin worked as a map maker for the first five years after he finished his school. But after that, he sat down and did nothing for the rest of his life. It could be that he got sick during that 5 years. But after that, evolution was a hobby for him. Something that he thought about to use up all the time he had."
JohnR7 is making the same kind of argument that poor students use to make in High School. "Nobody needs calculus, except the engineers. I'm going to be a famous theologian, so I don't need to learn calculus."
Isn't it fascinating how some determined nutcases can convince people that evolution is false simply by claiming that it is, that no one takes it seriously, and then repeating it over and over, never having to offer any kind of evidence?
And if its one think JohnR7 knows, its how to be a mover and shaker.
You do not find it out in the real world, because it does not work in the real world. It is not something that he used or developed in a real world situation. Or anything that anyone has used or developed in a real world situation.
Antibiotics for the win.
Actually, just about every species of domesticated plant exists as it does today because of selective breeding. So, unless JohnR7 lives in the mountains and survives by foraging for berries - which, if his post is any indication of his intelligence, isn't entirely unlikely - than he himself experiances the products of evolution on a day-to-day basis.
I guess when one lies long enough then the lie becomes truth to the liar.
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