Amazingly, since people are downloading this music using their computers, they never think to check out the band's website for soundclips, or any of the other thousand online CD websites that offer soundclips of songs on the album, in most cases for every song.
Despite the nice, concise write up and seeming intelligence of the post, it still boils down to the same arguments that have been refuted over and over again: argument from incredulity, 2nd law of thermodynamics, "evolution is only a theory, not a fact", and other logical fallacies, most notibly building a strawman of abiogenesis ("then it is not unreasonable to assume that life does not simply emerge from nothingness.") by assuming it posits life comes from nothingness rather than the actual theory that life arises from basic chemical properties, and the humorously sad oversight that life from nothingness is exactly what creationists propose, yet argue for the exact same impossibility as it pertains to the strawman of evolution they have built up. Ignorant religionists are quick to criticize science with false arguments, yet fail to see the hypocrisy in refusing to apply the same standards and requirements to their own "theories". Again you fail your own standards by failing to (in your own words) "provide persuasive counterpoint and example." You have out of hand dismissed the arguments for evolution without providing evidence and example, and provide no evidence and example in favor of Intelligent Design yourself.
Such is the mind of someone who lacks education; attempting to debate something without actually learning the subject matter at hand; attacking someone by claiming they are being attacked just for their differing "opinion" in spite of scientific fact and observation, and assuming that humans are incapable of learning the truth of the universe and working against education and science by copping out with "We don't currently understand it so God did it, let's leave it at that, now go pray!"
Mutation: a way to introduce random variety into the genetic makeup of a pool of organisms over time
Natural selection/survival of the fittest: Said mutations cause a change in the organism they manifest themselves in. Such change may be beneficial to the organisms survival by imparting it with some mechanism that enables it to survive better than its peers. This increases the chances that the mutation will be passed on to offspring and the cycle repeats. Or, such change my be harmful to an organism by imparting it with some mechanism that henders its ability to survive and reproduce. Chances are, this organism will perish before it can reproduce. It's genes are not passed on to offspring, hence the mutation doesn't get passed on.
It's almost trivial to come up with lists and lists of actual examples, is that what you're looking for?
If it was a "choice", then you couldn't definitely KNOW that God exists, because that would imply proof, and if you can prove God exists, then there would be no need to make a choice about whether you believe it does or not. Make up your damn mind.
Exactly. Please show where ID does this. Submit it to a peer-reviewed journal. Your personal disbelief that something couldn't happen naturally does not constitute "observation".
Maybe you aren't a creationist or ID proponent, but you are still ignorant of evolution. Evolution != abiogenesis, and I still can't understand how anyone could still be so ignorant as to somehow think that biological evolution has anything to do with the origins of the universe.
Macro-evolution would be an ape having a human baby. That would be a miracle and would pretty much disprove evolution right there. There is no such thing as a macro-evolutionary event. I can't even stand the word; it implies an event occurs when evolution never makes any claim of the sort. If you STILL insist on using the word, at least define it correctly: macroevolution would be the result picked out of a chain of generations of micro-evolutionary changes.
Evolution really isn't a difficult concept to grasp. At least learn what it's really about before you make yourself look stupid attempting to burn your strawman.
Not in practical results. We don't take relativistic effects into account in designing cars do we? Newton's laws work just fine, from calculating the path a baseball takes as it arcs through the air to sending a spaceshuttle to the moon.
A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or
account of a group of facts or phenomena;
Ok, so far, you're in the clear...
a hypothesis that has been confirmed
or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles, or causes of something known or observed.
Ooh, ouch. That whole confirmed/observation/experiment thing sucks huh? Stupid science...
There is no such thing as "forward" evolution. Evolution doesn't progress towards any particular goal other than increased chance of survival.
This says nothing to translate to humans, because humans have basically defeated the mechanisms of evolution by increasing chances of survival through non-evolutionary means (society, technology, etc..).
It's impossible to prove something doesn't exist. The burden of proof is on those who make the claim. You claim God exists. Please prove it. Please prove that the universe wasn't created by a giant purple people eater that lives in a bowl of jello. You can't disprove it? Then it must be true!
This wasn't really news for nerds, but TFGeditor accidently hit reply-to-all instead of reply when including this article in an email to a coworker, and Zonk's email addy happened to be oin there, and it was mistaken as an article submission.
Just a quick thought, but wouldn't this potentially be a major security hazard? Allowing your browser to connect automatically to other random users and automatically installing code from them?
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Amazingly, since people are downloading this music using their computers, they never think to check out the band's website for soundclips, or any of the other thousand online CD websites that offer soundclips of songs on the album, in most cases for every song.
Amazing deduction: you can't buy something if you don't have the money. What a mental stretch!
Try going to the band's website. Usually you can buy their CD off of there...
When did the music itself stop being something of value?
Such is the mind of someone who lacks education; attempting to debate something without actually learning the subject matter at hand; attacking someone by claiming they are being attacked just for their differing "opinion" in spite of scientific fact and observation, and assuming that humans are incapable of learning the truth of the universe and working against education and science by copping out with "We don't currently understand it so God did it, let's leave it at that, now go pray!"
It did, until it was dropped and now you can definitely tell that my Dixie wrecked.
I agree, so what's your point?
It's almost trivial to come up with lists and lists of actual examples, is that what you're looking for?
If it was a "choice", then you couldn't definitely KNOW that God exists, because that would imply proof, and if you can prove God exists, then there would be no need to make a choice about whether you believe it does or not. Make up your damn mind.
Because theirs isn't science. That little detail seems to be the hardest one to accept.
Exactly. Please show where ID does this. Submit it to a peer-reviewed journal. Your personal disbelief that something couldn't happen naturally does not constitute "observation".
Macro-evolution would be an ape having a human baby. That would be a miracle and would pretty much disprove evolution right there. There is no such thing as a macro-evolutionary event. I can't even stand the word; it implies an event occurs when evolution never makes any claim of the sort. If you STILL insist on using the word, at least define it correctly: macroevolution would be the result picked out of a chain of generations of micro-evolutionary changes.
Evolution really isn't a difficult concept to grasp. At least learn what it's really about before you make yourself look stupid attempting to burn your strawman.
Not in practical results. We don't take relativistic effects into account in designing cars do we? Newton's laws work just fine, from calculating the path a baseball takes as it arcs through the air to sending a spaceshuttle to the moon.
This says nothing to translate to humans, because humans have basically defeated the mechanisms of evolution by increasing chances of survival through non-evolutionary means (society, technology, etc..).
It's impossible to prove something doesn't exist. The burden of proof is on those who make the claim. You claim God exists. Please prove it. Please prove that the universe wasn't created by a giant purple people eater that lives in a bowl of jello. You can't disprove it? Then it must be true!
Geez, get a clue.
I find it amusing that some people know for a fact that God exists, yet can't produce any proof for it. Please sir, show your work.
This wasn't really news for nerds, but TFGeditor accidently hit reply-to-all instead of reply when including this article in an email to a coworker, and Zonk's email addy happened to be oin there, and it was mistaken as an article submission.
I don't care if it's offtopic, that shit is coffee-through-the-nose funny. Mod parent up.
It's ok, as long as you aren't using a CRT monitor.
Get out of your mom's basement for a while. "No man is an island" ring a bell?
You misspelled "masturbation".
Sounds like a great plan, until you miss the message where your boss wanted you to do something important before 3 that day...
Just a quick thought, but wouldn't this potentially be a major security hazard? Allowing your browser to connect automatically to other random users and automatically installing code from them?