Debate over

Well, I think I've done all the reading on Evolution vs ID that I want to, and I'm not sure anyone changed their minds at all.

I still believe in ID, and actually after some of the reading, believe its been proven.

Evolution is still there and IMO, part of the ID.

And while I do believe the odds that a monkey might sit down and randomly hit a bunch of keys and type out the next great novel, (because these are the kind of odds we are talking about.) is next to impossible. Given 500 million years, it might happen.

But to then turn around and do a 2nd novel right after the first.

The odds, there are just to astronomical to be a "well it could happen." No, it can't. Not without something guiding and controlling it.

Anyway, moving onto to other topics. Lets get back to some warhammer and painting.

Until next time...

Evolution vs Intelligent Design

Alex has started a debate with me in another thread. I thought I'd pull it up front so anyone can feel free to chime in.

The question before us is Evolution vs Intelligent Design.
Did People evolve slowly and naturally from our Earths start 4.5 billion years ago, or was there something else giving it a lending hand?

ID (Intelligent Design) means whatever you want it to mean. Whether it be God, Allah, Aliens, Zeus or the Spaghetti Monster from the depths.

Since this is really a huge, huge debate, we may have to break it into several posts.

rules:
1. No name calling, or slighting (ie. Watching too much Fox, or too much public education, or watching too much sci-fi)
2. No calling anyone a liar.
3. If you want to dispute something, some proof must be given. If we get to a point where neither person cedes the point, we can agree to disagree.
4. Be polite, this is a debate, not politics.
5. If you wish to disagree with someone, please read their post in full, instead of assuming what you think they said.
6. Try to keep the posts, within reason.

Since its my blog, I'll start.
Instead of jumping right into Darwin's Theory of Evolution, he seemed to have skipped some 4 billion years worth of history. So lets start there.
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4.5 Billion years ago, after our Earth was formed from some Big Bang as is the popular theory now, it was a big mess.
But no one ever seems to explain what kicked off the Big Bang to begin with.
Lets skip that for now, but it is a huge hole, as big bangs, don't just happen.

So once here, this big mess of particles is swirling around in a pool and forming into our Earth as it cools down. Then somewhere out of this primordial mush, life appears. Suddenly, inexplicably and without warning. Only 500 million years into its cooling, all of the sudden there was life. And not 1, but 2 forms of life. Both single cell, both completely unique.

We have a pretty good idea of what was in the primordial mush. What elements, what the temperature was, pressure, etc.. And yet, after over 100 years of testing, and experimenting, we have yet to be able to reproduce the creation of life, that just spontaneously erupted.

we now jump forward 3.5 billion years. So only 530 million years ago. We have 3.5 billion years of single cell organisms living, and dieing out.
Then like magic, BAM! within a 5-10 million year span, as soon as oxygen was available we have what has become known as the Cambriam Explosion. In that time all major groups of complex animal life subgroupings within the animal kingdom appeared in large numbers. Not just 1 or 5 or 10, but 26 animal phyla appeared. Sponges, trilobites, molusks, etc..
This was huge and widespread.
There are no in between fossils at all to suggest life went from single cell to mutli-cell at all. Not One, in over 130 years of trying to find them.

Now lets jump another 400 million years to only 110 million years ago when flowering plants, simply appeared on the Earth. No major upheaval, nothing like them previous in any known fossil record. Totally different from every form of life previously on the planet, and yet they covered the Earth. No evidence of Evolution at all.
Even Darwin himself admitted they were "an abominable mystery."

The fact is, most life has shown up on this planet, fully formed and developed, lives approximately a million years and dies off.

Does evolution in micro stages happen? Yes. A beak changes, weight is put on, or lost. Size increases or gets smaller. But major changes on the Macro-Evolutionary scale, simply do not exist. Feel free to give any examples you feel dispute this.

It is easy enough to dismiss a few missing-links, between species. The pre-hominid to the human, or whatever. But every single species that has ever existed. There are no fossil records, that link any pre-ancestor, to some later species.

So Intelligent design suggests that life went along for a while, and then was given some sort of jump-start that crammed 100 million years into 1 or 2 million. Or life was dumped on the planet.

I look forward to hearing your response. Sorry this got a bit long winded.
And yes, I do study science Alex.

This is not philosophy, this is science.

Great Monday Morning

Not a lot to complain about this fine Monday.

1. The biggest of the weekend was the Cowboys kicking some Brown's butt with an easy 28-10 win that looked like it could have been a lot worse. Looks like it is shaping up to be a great year for the Boys.

2. The latest Gallup polls show McCain/Palin ahead with a double digit lead!! of 10 points on the "My Muslim Religion" suicide plan of Obama and that other guy. (I know its Biden, but how many avg people in the street know that?)

3. Its funny to watch Obama try and slide himself more to the center now. I thought about joining the military (yea for about 1 second.), I might not raise taxes, maybe life starts earlier than 6 weeks after the baby is delivered... ;)
Give me a break Obama.

I have 3 words that now describe Obama and the liberal left: TOTAL PANIC MODE!!

4. And watched a very silly movie this weekend, "Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo." Very silly and parts of it were just crap (seriously) some very sick humor in there. But the ending was decent and there was a good message in the movie. (At least it was what I got out of it.) When George W said, you don't have to like the government to believe in your country.
That made the movie watchable and likable to me. Though I warn you, way too much sick humor, and gross you out moments for most people. We almost turned it off a couple times. It was that bad. But once you get past the KKK scene, the rest isn't that bad. I give the movie a 2 out of 5 stars. But did like the message at the end.

Well until next time...

Lies, Lies and more Lies

Obama and his supporters are whining about the unfair treatment and how McCain and Palin are bashing them unfairly.

Shall we walk down memory lane and look at all the lies that nObama and his staff, blogs he supports, and the main stream liberal media have spread.

1. That Palin has no experience. That being a mayor just isn't enough. Failed to somehow forget she was governess for 2 years. And still has more than Obama.

2. That Palin and Gulliani(sp?) were degrading community service. Nope, sorry, they were just pointing out, that doesn't qualify you for public service.

3. That Palin was part of the independent separatist party in Alaska. Nope, sorry turned out to be a lie.

4. That Palin's son Trig wasn't really hers but her daughters. Huh!! Your kidding right. What a lie and a smear.

5. That the reverend they listened to for 20 years wasn't really a race hating bigot.

6. That they would never support rev.Wright. Of course they did for 20 years until tapes of his sermons hit the street.

7. That Obama has no real affiliation with the terrorist Ayers. Even though they are neighbors, worked on this community project together as co-leaders, that Ayers hosted the fund raiser that kicked off Obama's political career, and who Obama defended until people realized what a whacko people saw him as.

8. That Obama feels families should be off limits, even though there are blogs, that he supports, out there posting unspeakable things about Palin's family. Everything from their oldest daughter is a whore, to her son is gay, to smears on the youngest daughter. Totally outrageous, despicable stuff.

9. That the Obama's love this country. They hate it, and everything it stands for. They are racist, they started and run a recruiting group for a race based indoctrinated militia, that he wants to become nationwide.

And all you can do is complain that Gov. Palin took government money to help her state and wants to stop this practice.

Give me a break.

until next time...

Palin will you marry me?

I know she is married, as am I, but OMG, surely we can get past those trivialities. I did some research on Sarah Palin last Friday when McCain picked her to be his VP.

I liked her then, thought it was a brilliant pick and last nights speech wrapped it up for me. She is so awesome, I expect her to be the next president after whoever wins this election.

She has the media and the left wingnut liberals in a tizzy as their heads are spinning around. They can't figure out what to do with this Barracuda from the North.

She clinched it for me last night. I'm not sure McCain can do better. I am so looking forward to seeing her in National politics for many years to come.

As one reviewer said:
"She was put on this earth to do two things: kill caribou and kick ass.
She is all out of caribou."

Until next time...