Fairy Tale Evolution Theory

Hi,

just found this article from a creationist in the Roanoke Times. I think it's worth sharing, so everyone can have a laugh:

The fairy tale evolution theory

Tom Taylor


Taylor is retired from Norfolk Southern Corp. and resides in Roanoke. He is also nearing the completion of his fifth novel.


I propose a theory that at least some of the green frogs living today are descendants of a prince, zapped by a wicked witch many centuries ago.


Of course you could make all sorts of scientific arguments against my theory. Funny thing, your arguments would be much the same as those used by creationists when they argue against the fairy tale of evolution.
There is no known force or natural mechanism, you'd say, that could change a prince into a frog. And neither is there any that could change one species into another. Mutations couldn't possibly do it because they cannot add new genetic information as would be required for a new species; they can only shuffle or harm what is already there.


Geneticists over the last 60 years or so have attempted to show that mutations (could too!) produce evolution by bombarding hundreds of generations of fruit flies with radiation. The flies, which produce a new generation every 10 days, did indeed mutate. They changed in the color of their eyes, the number of bristles and the shape of their wings. But their DNA would simply not let them "evolve" into anything but fruit flies. Most important of all, when the radiation was stopped, the following generations went right back to the bristles, wings and eyes they had before. Those experiments proved mutation cannot produce evolution.


Next you would point out the "evidence" for my prince-to-frog story (the fact the frogs exist, some of them have fingers on their little hands, etc.) is evidence only to someone already committed to believing the story. And so it is with the "evidence" for evolution. The fossil layers, for example, contain nothing but fully formed, distinct kinds, just as you'd expect if they had been created that way, and later buried in layers of mud.


Evolutionists, however, continue to insist "links" are in there somewhere. In one typical example, a 1983 news headline trumpeted the discovery of a "missing link" between whales and their supposed land-mammal ancestors. The fossil find consisted of part of a cranium, fragments of a lower jaw and some teeth.


Because the fragments were found in a river delta layer, and the teeth resembled those of a land carnivore, the fossil became (presto) a link between land mammals and whales.


If a scientist laid those fragments out on a table and explained to the average person why such skimpy evidence represents a link in evolution, he would be laughed out of the room -- unless of course the room was filled with people already determined to believe it.


Darwin's disciples surely realize all of this. Yet they go on insisting evolution is the only "scientific" explanation of how we got here, and we all descended somehow from worms, fish and apes.


And I will go on insisting green frogs somehow came from a hapless prince.


But really, isn't it time we asked ourselves, deep down in our hearts, if we are being intellectually honest?

Do you think it's a waste of time to show such people the logical faults in their argumentation. I mean great minds like Richard Dawkins and Stephen J. Gould have done it again and again and they still come with crap like the above. It's sad.

[Mog]

DirkStruan wrote

Hi,

just found this article from a creationist in the Roanoke Times. I think it's worth sharing, so everyone can have a laugh:

Do you think it's a waste of time to show such people the logical faults in their argumentation. I mean great minds like Richard Dawkins and Stephen J. Gould have done it again and again and they still come with crap like the above. It's sad.

Its not a waste of time, because though you probably won't sway the creationist, you can always reach the readers that read that drivel and became convinced by it.

[ILOVEJESUS]

Ask ourselves if we are being intellectually honest?? so a magic sky fairy is more intellectual is it? how long did they bombard the fruit flies. when has evolution worked in a couple of hours in a laboratory through cell destroying radiation? great experiment. maybe for creating an incredible hulk fly.

[ILOVEJESUS]

now our cities will be destroyed by a raging fly that goes green and has unlimited strength when it gets angry.

It's truly a shame people like Dawkins aren't in the business of giving out solid, televised backhands to the head to people like this. It would be so much more effective and entertaining.

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

[Choobus]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UR wanker

lolzz

[Mog]

Pablobee wrote

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

What a sad sad little man you are.

[Professor Chaos]

Shorter Pablobee: I fear the emptiness of death. Therefore God exists.

[calpurnpiso]

Pablobee wrote

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

Here retard LEARN the truth, and if you doubt the facts, go see a neurologist for you are a retarded fool with a defective brain. 2+2=4 not 6. BTW retard, we are in the 21st Century not the 12th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjw2NAOuQdY

...and here is the truth about your STUPID GOSPELS retard. LEARN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HdTPOpDxc

[antix]

Could it be that Pablowmee is trying to outstupid Shitlord XXXV and Yarhole? He's got a steep mountain to climb, but I'd say progress is coming along nicely.

[JU Mike]

Pablobee wrote

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

You really are nihilistic, aren't you?

[Sternwallow]

Pablobee wrote

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

That is a pretty bleak and depressing outlook you have there. Thank goodness it is wrong in almost every particular. I suspect that it comes from Christian teaching.

Christianity says that humans are lower than worms, sin-ridden and worthy only of eternal torment, that we were made from filth, can do nothing that is good and were made initially for the sole purpose of removing the weeds from a weedless strip of land.
YOU ARE WORSE THAN NOTHING, YOU ARE CRIMINAL FOR HAVING BEEN BORN HUMAN AND THE PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR INHERITED IMPERFECTION IS EVERLASTING TORTURE BY UNATTRACTIVE DEMONS.

I think I am glad that my version is the intellectually honest one.

Pablobee wrote

The natural state of the evolved human mind: It came from nothing, it's present function means nothing, it returns to nothing. Your thoughts are useless and vain beyond seeking the sensual in life. There is no basis for morals, rationality, reason or logic. How can an accidental mix of chemicals (humans) define what’s right and wrong, reasonable, logical, rational or moral. Truth carries the same value as a lie. There is no hope for the future, only a black cold grave and your lifeless dust dispersed into eternity. YOU ARE NOTHING!

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Riot!

You should take that on stage man.

Give that speech while firing ping pong balls out of your ass and I'd stick a ten in your G-string---

bet you'd love a ten in your g-string....wouldn't you you dirty dirty thing you.

[calpurnpiso]

Rocketman the Sequel wrote

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Riot!

You should take that on stage man.

Give that speech while firing ping pong balls out of your ass and I'd stick a ten in your G-string---

bet you'd love a ten in your g-string....wouldn't you you dirty dirty thing you.

I think retarded Pablobee couldn't stand the truth, left the forum and in his pants he peed, leaving the expositions of his lies to me.