Message from @tienXtreme
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well, even the "harmful" mutation can be beneficial. For example, the adaptation to malaria. It's actually just broken functionality
Ahhhhhhh
The best counter evolution I've heard of is what if a bunch of organisms were created at the same time by aliens and then evolved as normal AFTER that?
Cambrian explosion maybe.
thats not a counter thats a "wouldnt it be cool if"
but we dont need aliens to explain cambrian explusion
mutations is how we get X-men..
so, necessary for the next step in human evolution
the problem with that is that it just pushes it back one step
Tfw you'll never smell her gooch
show bob
you then have to ask: what causes the aliens to be alive?
god
so it doesn't solve the problem at all
apply occam's razor
and get rid of the aliens
@fuguer he also argues that the likelihood of dependent mutations occurring increases exponentially. Theyve shown that just two gene mutations needed could take 100m - 1b generations to occur successfully
aliens are angels
check mate!
@fuguer how would you prove common descent from a few organisms vs descent from dozens or hundreds of organisms created separately though
me vs duck and nerth
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trivially
common descent shows up clearly in the genetics
well, I'll read some rebuttals now, I just finished the book today
How?
it does, not a super straight line as we don't have the dna of extinct shit, but what we have, makes alot of sense @fuguer
There would be a lot of descent from those many common ancestors
like all science, if evolution is true, then we expect to find genetic patterns consistent with it... and every single time we check, we do
well he doesn't deny the progression that has occured
for example, all the organisms might have a broken gene from a past mutation
So how do you know its inconsistent with multiple common ancestors?
he's not saying humans were just created, or that we didn't evolve
if they were all created separately theres no reason to expect them to share the same dysfunctional dna
yes, he doesn't deny we share the same ancestor
but its precisely what we expect with evolution
and we see it time and time again
Are you saying there are super old mutations that 90% of living things have?
yes
all he denies is the way by which new functionality is created