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In Reply to: What are we arguing here? posted by dado4 on November 2, 2003 at 07:56:07:
Well, there are other explanations for why you seem to have little knowledge of what is actually said at The Talk Origins Archive. I asked you what they said about the distinction between microevolution and macroevolution for a reason, but you just plow ahead. Here is a quote from John Wilkins from the link below:"Antievolutionists argue that there has been no proof of macroevolutionary processes. However, synthesists claim that the same processes that cause within-species changes of the frequencies of alleles can be extrapolated to between species changes, so this argument fails unless some mechanism for preventing microevolution causing macroevolution is discovered. Since every step of the process has been demonstrated in genetics and the rest of biology, the argument against macroevolution fails."
Now, come on, he makes a fairly obvious argument! You have admitted that the mechanisms have been observed. You just don't want to extrapolate into the past, although for some reason you are willing to admit the sun rose yesterday. There is no difference in principle.
For some reason, you wish to pursue an argument with me about things which are not my field of expertise, such as proving evolution took place. Even I have shown that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is quite compatible with evolution, though I am not a physicist, and you have provided no arguments to the contrary. It has often been pointed out that creationists simply have shown very, very little interest in pursuing their claims in the scientific community, and you want to pursue it with me, a non-expert. Sorry, I am not buying into that sort of thing.
You really ought to look more deeply into the falsificationist principle. I suggest Philip Kitcher's "Abusing Science," p. 42-47. He writes pretty clearly.
Oh, when you say evolution is not testable, you, an upholder of the fossilized human footprints by the Paluxy River, are contradicting yourself again. You are trying to have it both ways, that it is not testable AND that the Paluxy footprints refute it! GMAB
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