What really yanks my chain is when the news media always report about species "adapting to their environment".
This explanation is ALWAYS the first that the reporters will jump to. They act as if there is no possibility whatsoever that maybe - just MAYBE - they were designed that way.
I'm always angered when I read these breaking news stories that seem to support the "theory" of evolution, which everyone knows, has serious flaws and is just one among MANY possible explanations for the origin of living things.
Why the media can't seem to get its act together and report more objectively, I'll never know.
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I'm always amused when I read these fundie news stories that seem to support the "theory" of creation, which everyone knows, has serious flaws and is just not a possible explanation for the origin of living things.
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What really yanks my chain is when the news media always report about species "adapting to their environment".
O NOES! You mean like growing long hair in the winter and shedding it in the summer?
This explanation is ALWAYS the first that the reporters will jump to. They act as if there is no possibility whatsoever that maybe - just MAYBE - they were designed that way.
Riiiiight... because nature could never do that by itself...
I'm always angered when I read these breaking news stories that seem to support the "theory" of evolution, which everyone knows, has serious flaws
Which are...?
and is just one among MANY possible explanations for the origin of living things.
ToE does NOT delve into that. That something completely different.
Why the media can't seem to get its act together and report more objectively, I'll never know.
Why can't you get your head out of your ass and see the world without a "designer?" Oh. Right. You're a fundie. Nevermind.
And every time something falls, they talk about "gravity" doing it, as if that's the only plausible reason. And don't get me started about how they talk about how the "earth is round" and "goes around the sun". What's next? Reporters insisting that snakes don't talk or that insects have 6 legs instead of 4. Shocking!
does anybody else want to call "Poe"? look at his name, for goodness sake: "godsfavoritetool"
i'm calling Poe on this one.
They act as if there is no possibility whatsoever that maybe - just MAYBE - they were designed that way.
Bacteria designed to eat nylon, a substance that didn't exist until 1938?
"godsfavoritetool"
^ lol.
Hang on. If they were 'designed' to fit the environment, why would they need to change or 'adapt' unless the environment has changed over time? And if the environment has changed over time, has god created a new 'designed' species recently to fill that gap?
Evolution sadly is not survival of the fittest. It is merely survival of the sexiest. It does'nt really care about efficiency of survival merely how effectively you can spread genes.
As everyone "knows" the flaws in evolution are not ever mentioned.
The ultimate irony of the situation is that if "I" were a supremely all powerful almighty God. I would invent evolution. Since that way life can pretty much carry on without any help from myself and I would'nt have to keep interfering. Its a self balancing system that runs itself through most obstacles without needing me to babysit it.
Sounds like my old man. He absolutely hates, LOATHES the theory of evolution. You should just see him when he's watching the National Geographic channel or Animal Planet and they bring up the 'E' word and then starts going off about how stupid scientists are. Yeah, scientists. He never finished high school yet he knows more than they do. And don't even get him started on global warming. What an asshat. Don't get me wrong, I love my father, but he's an asshat.
"Why the media can't seem to get its act together and report more objectively, I'll never know."
What? Faux News and the 700 Club too librul fer ya?
"Objectively" in the Fox News sense, no doubt.
Of course, we only have to look at the career of Trofim Lysenko to see what political influence over science does, but let's just let the fundies take over and see what happens.
They are supposed to report the news, not just "maybe this happened this way." If they were told that it was the ToE, then they will report it as such. If as story involves Creationism, they will say so. It depends upin what the story is about.
Reports are reporters, not Creationist or scientists.
Why godsfavoritetool doesn't see it that way, I'll never know.
Poe, or massive failure? You decide.
Change - in any way, shape, form, or capacity - defies the "God made all, perfect and unchanging" matnra so many like to spew.
Average Christian: I don't see why I should mind people believing evolution.
Intelligent Christian: When you think about it, the 2 theories support eachother.
Fundie: Must reject logic and reasoning *asplodes*
Since you've "adapted to this enviroment" sufficiently to be able to use a keyboard, then you've just answered your own bullshit.
I'm always angered when I read these breaking news stories that seem to support the "theory" of evolution, which everyone knows, has serious flaws and is just one among MANY possible explanations for the origin of living things.
And those "MANY possible explanations for the origin of living things" are what? Magic? Goddidit?
It really yanks my chain when the news media always reports about things falling because of gravity.
This explination is ALWAYS the first that reporters will jump to. They act as if there is no possibility whatsoever that maybe - just MAYBE - FSM is making them fall.
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Yes, they might have been designed to adapt to their environment. Have you got any evidence that your particular god, and no-one else, did the design?
Evolution is NOT an explanation for the origin of living thing, but for the diversity of life.
The accepted scientific explanation IS the objective explanation, stupid.
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