Posted by rpcman on March 29, 1999 at 11:20:07:
In Reply to: When you ask one that is relevant posted by Bob on March 28, 1999 at 09:12:14:
: I appreciate the sources of information you have provided (I will read some of them)
Why not read them all?
: There was a time when evolutions didn't try to separate them...
Can you support this claim? Who has said that Darwinian selection is the same as abiogenesis?
: Why have they gone to "Directed panspermia"
Who has gone to this?
: and "Punctuated equilibria"?
You grossly misunderstand PE. Try reading a work by someone who has actually written about the theory from a scientific standpoint (like Gould).
: Because "thorough testing" and "scientific corroboration" has forced them there, where their theory cannot be tested.
Again, you obviously haven't read the tests or corroborations or your assertion that the theory can't be tested would not be made. Try a textbook on the subject for starters.
: ...Human beings specifically.
I've addressed this previously as well as recommend several books on the subject.
: 1) noted scientists made statements that life by chance is appparently impossible.
And I asked for your better theory and you still haven't given it. I've also shown how your 'noted' scientist statements were incorrect and/or distorted based on what they really think.
: 2)Transitional forms have not been found linking man to apes.
This is absolutely untrue as you will find out if you bother to follow all the links in the posts I have made on the subject.
: 3) Several hoaxes were used in the absence of scientific evidence.
This means nothing. Hoaxes have been used to 'prove' that supernatural powers exist on countless occassions but this does not disprove the supernatural.
: You have provided nothing that refutes these , or supports your charge that I misquoted and distorted.
Yes I have. You just haven't bothered to follow the links I've provided.
: 1. Yes, Fred Hoyle believes in evolution. I didn't say he doesn't, and
: 2. I didn't say he believes in God. (I just used the word "evolution", does that make me a believer in it?) The apparent contradiction is his, not mine.
Lying is not effective when your original post is still readily available for all to read. I quote from your original post, "Hoyle, a life long atheist, went on to say that the only way life could have come to pass is through the application of a very high order of intelligence which we may call God."