re: A Scientific dissent from Darwin

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if these organism change this infinitesimal amount over tens of millions of years

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Some do. Some don't.

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In a way, intelligent design reaffirms Darwin's "survival of the fittest". If an individual is designed stupidly, it's not going to last very long on our planet.

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I would just like to interject that "fittest" is often misinterpreted by the layman to mean "best". As if evolution has some end goal.

But fittest only means "works better than the alternative in that given time".

For example. If the world turned substantially colder, I suspect over time many animals without decent self-heating mechanisms or protection would die off and those that either had, or developed furry coats or other mechanisms would do great. But, if at some point after that, the world turned substantially warmer, the opposite would occur.

Neither of those adaptions would be "better" in some concrete sense. They just worked in that time frame. The same goes for millions of other evolutionary pressures in the environment.

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Phds in theology don't count

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The scientists are listed in the link

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Have always been fascinated by pictures of animals trapped in amber, or fossilized tree sap. Almost invariably, these are dated to tens of millions of years, and look almost exactly like their modern day descendants.


Looks like a scorpion to me.

Looks like a lizard.

Looks like a baby bird.

Looks like a bee.

Looks like a flea.

Looks like a spider.

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Yes, many bugs and reptiles haven't changed much in a very, very long time. But I hope you aren't basing your view of that baby bird on the artist's rendering. The actual specimen had a jaw with teeth, rather than a beak. It had claws on its wings. It was a dinosaur with feathers.

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Does anyone know what happened to this dude?

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I'm guessing he went off to fight demons in another plane of existence and got stuck there


or......the nurses caught him off his meds again and cut off his internet access

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I miss his crazy arse threads.

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#metoo

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said biologist Douglas Axe, director of Biologic Institute

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The Biologic Institute conducts biological research with the aim of producing experimental evidence of intelligent design, funded by the Discovery Institute. It has offices in Redmond, Washington and laboratories in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.[1]

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I miss his crazy arse threads.

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The intelligent design thread was GOAT.

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Darwin's theory was wholly based on empirical observation and thus lacking important details. He of course had no knowledge of nucleic acids or genes and genomes, or RNA transcription to proteins. etc. Now we have full understanding of these things, and yet macroevolution is still perplexing. No one has ever seen one creature evolve into something else, nor will they.

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I read a book one time that basically decided that during times of calm evolution simply doesnt happen, and during times of cataclysm, and the period after, evolution happens very rapidly to adjust the surviving life to the new world it lives in.

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and yet they end up with a slightly different colored version of the same thing that can still breed just fine with the original

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Like horses and mules, lions and tigers, or camels and llamas? That kind of thing?

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I'm guessing he went off to fight demons in another plane of existence and got stuck there

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I hope he makes it back one day to tell us the story.