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Was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 03:19 pmOh things are gonna happen naturally
Ran across this while trying to find out what it was that Behe said in the Kansas School Board Discussion. I think it's Kansas. I'm not certain. But this was interesting.
Behe's research is empirically based; no one disputes that the bacterial flagellum is as complex as Behe describes, or that it functions as he says. And no one has demonstrated that Behe is wrong.
But, maybe Behe is wrong; then again, maybe he is right.
How, though, can we expect science to honestly investigate the matter if only those irretrievably committed to the theory of evolution are permitted to conduct the investigation while all others are sent packing to the religious studies department?
Now unrelated to Behe, whose work I really haven't studied, I was researching Lucy and australiopithicines. This whole statistical impossibility of macroevolution got me thinking about everything I was taught in school. And a major hitch was from 9th grade AP Biology. We learned about Lucy and other human evolutionary ancestors. I remembered watching a movie about her discovery and a computer animated video about how she would have lived. As well as cromagnon man, neanderthals and others like them. So I find out that recent thought is that she was an extinct ape. Not only that, but when she was discovered, the scientist who found her is quoted as saying he say out of the corner of his eye the elbow of a human.
He didn't know it was a human. He assumed it was. It turns out that modern apes and chimps have more in common with humans than Lucy the so-called missing link. And her skeleton was only 60%. A knee they assumed was hers was found yards away and possibly is from something else entirely. And her long fingers and toes are similar to those of monkeys or apes which spend their time in the trees. So the knee which was thought to prove her to be upright might not be hers. And the pelvis which also shows upgright could just be an ape which is capable of being upright, but didn't walk upright all the time.
I was also reading where several so-called leading evolutionists state that the fossil record cannot support any kind of species evolution or macroevolution. I don't know how leading these people really are though. And I've found plenty of reading material on Behe's work pros and cons. However, the resource and reference material is lacking. I need more links so that I can read and follow-up on these "breakthroughs." I'm not going to believe something just because my 9th grade biology teacher says it's true.
Je suis fatiguee.
~Bas
Ran across this while trying to find out what it was that Behe said in the Kansas School Board Discussion. I think it's Kansas. I'm not certain. But this was interesting.
Behe's research is empirically based; no one disputes that the bacterial flagellum is as complex as Behe describes, or that it functions as he says. And no one has demonstrated that Behe is wrong.
But, maybe Behe is wrong; then again, maybe he is right.
How, though, can we expect science to honestly investigate the matter if only those irretrievably committed to the theory of evolution are permitted to conduct the investigation while all others are sent packing to the religious studies department?
Now unrelated to Behe, whose work I really haven't studied, I was researching Lucy and australiopithicines. This whole statistical impossibility of macroevolution got me thinking about everything I was taught in school. And a major hitch was from 9th grade AP Biology. We learned about Lucy and other human evolutionary ancestors. I remembered watching a movie about her discovery and a computer animated video about how she would have lived. As well as cromagnon man, neanderthals and others like them. So I find out that recent thought is that she was an extinct ape. Not only that, but when she was discovered, the scientist who found her is quoted as saying he say out of the corner of his eye the elbow of a human.
He didn't know it was a human. He assumed it was. It turns out that modern apes and chimps have more in common with humans than Lucy the so-called missing link. And her skeleton was only 60%. A knee they assumed was hers was found yards away and possibly is from something else entirely. And her long fingers and toes are similar to those of monkeys or apes which spend their time in the trees. So the knee which was thought to prove her to be upright might not be hers. And the pelvis which also shows upgright could just be an ape which is capable of being upright, but didn't walk upright all the time.
I was also reading where several so-called leading evolutionists state that the fossil record cannot support any kind of species evolution or macroevolution. I don't know how leading these people really are though. And I've found plenty of reading material on Behe's work pros and cons. However, the resource and reference material is lacking. I need more links so that I can read and follow-up on these "breakthroughs." I'm not going to believe something just because my 9th grade biology teacher says it's true.
Je suis fatiguee.
~Bas
