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How so?

I personally take a punt on that question. We don't really know enough. This is also the position Buddhists take on it. Kind of. They more or less just shrug and say, "We don't know. It just is. And it hardly matters, because you'll still have to live this life regardless of how it came into being".

The fruit fly experiments seem fairly awful prima facie TBH for several reasons. Firstly, it seems that fruit flies preference breeding on food consumption and what they eat affects mutational rates both: Fruit fly larvae with a noted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation showed a pronounced...

The only plausible argument from a creationist perspective that is coherent when it comes to this is that the creator designed life to fail--a kind of biological planned obsolescence type thing. From my perspective, I'd say that nature strives for equilibrium--which is why ecological overshoot...

Personally I think abiogenesis occurring in hydrothermal vents is the most probable theory at this stage.

A classic anti-evolutionist argument now goes like this: A gene can be viewed as a sequence of DNA bases, typically represented by the letters A, C, G, and T. A gene can therefore be viewed as a sequence of letters, just as the outcomes of multiple coin tosses can be viewed as a sequence of Hs...

Every culture more or less has their own creation fairytale. Pointing up at the sky and prescribing magical explanations for the phenomenological in lieu of scientific explanations is par for the course. Western (Middle Eastern) varieties just happen to be far more sophisticated because the...

I actually agree with this. He's more interesting to me as a biologist than he is as an antireligious crusader. I can see how one could be driven to it by dogmatists like Tiger and Zipporah though.

Of course I have. I don't see how this is in any way different to your copypasting youtube videos with sensationalist clickbait titles published by various religious cranks. I'm not even sure I understand the tone of the accusation--are credulously operating under the premise that I have (or...

So we're just going to ignore my last post? That's what we're doing. OK. The issue isn't the functionality of the nerve. It does what it does. The issue is that there's absolutely no reason for it to be designed in such a way. In the cited example of the Giraffe, it is akin to a person who...

Here you are. The slow and steady march up the gradual incline is no picnic. Passage is governed by a series of unforgiving rules, or laws of nature. For one, every step must confer a survival or reproductive advantage. Second, the path is one-way; a species or trait cannot reverse course and...

Possibly. I don't remember.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Regardless, it's still poor design. Certainly not intelligent. No explanation for it other than the one given by Biologists holds any water.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1a1Ek-HD0

This is nonsense, I'm afraid. The vast majority of women executed for witchcraft were decidedly not upper class. In fact, the vast majority of witch hunts happened in poor rural areas. They tended to be peasant wives, often widowed. Keep in mind this was occurring at the burgeoning of...

The concept of witches and witchcraft is very modern. Historically, most women who were considered witches were simply isolated poor women living in the outskirts of poverty because their husbands died early in the game. Often times they would take small mammals etc as pets, for company, which...

This is disingenuous when you dig into it. There is little information about the existence of Jesus in Roman records, but it more or less just states he was executed during the reign of Tiberius. It appears that the described followers of Christus were regarded as a kind of minor nuisance and...

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We...

And on the note of sex and death, take a look at the most popular types of culture--especially cinema. Game of Thrones etc. What do they have a lot of? Hmmmm.....