Comments on: Garden Variety Evolution Wilts

By: rbirkey

rbirkey — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:32:52 +0000

This response is also only one of many I received after posting a simple question on PZ Meyers blog “Pharyngula.” Most responses were vicious, and uncivil. I can accept a response like the one above because at least it attempts to respond to the content of the post, and with normal emotions. Most responses were emotional and failed to address the point of the post. Again, I think the point of the movie “Expelled” about freedom, open intellectual exploration, dialog and pursuit of truth is being made by the type of responses to the movie.

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:20:12 +0000

Scientific method has been applied to Intelligent Design, there was no evidence, and Intelligent Design proponents must consider all other options, including evolution.

By: Wicked Lad

Wicked Lad — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:40:52 +0000

Wow, Randal, do you really claim to know anything about this field? Read up a little on a few basic facts and concepts before you embarrass yourself like this again. Then, rather than whining about evolutionary models, do something constructive. Come up with an alternative, lay out the hypotheses your model suggests, then test them. That's science. That's useful to the rest of humanity...as opposed to the bloviation in this post, which is useful only to your own sense of self-importance.

By: ddr

ddr — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:38:34 +0000

While it may very well be true that a species that is isolated is more likely to die off than change, that does not mean that it always will die off. Some small fraction of them will adapt and, over time, evolve into something that can no longer breed back to the parent population. They will have become a new species. It does not happen every time. But it does happen enough times to give us the diversity that we see.

Your idea is that, what, God changed his mind about animals and just re-designed them and popped them into existence? How could an all knowing, all seeing being get it wrong the first time around?

By: linzel

linzel — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:35:23 +0000

You claim that the fossil record does not corroborate evolution. Not so. Transitional fossils have been found in dozens of cases at this time including jaw bones arrangement into ear bones in mammals and leg reduction in cetaceans, just to name a couple.

By: freelunch

freelunch — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:50:57 +0000

Evolution happens. The theory of evolution is very well supported by the evidence. Please, don’t spend your time reading apologetics documents if you want to learn about science. They will mislead you each time.

The theory of evolution is not facing problems and, as was shown in Dover, there is no science in Intelligent Design.