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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

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  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  cofty

  Hooby are you being obtuse on purpose?

  Let's say one individual in a population of 10,000 acquires a favourable mutation. That has no effect on how many offspring the other 99,999 have. But over many generations the percentage of individuals with the mutation will gradually increase. Each generation of individuals with the mutation will do slightly better at leaving descendants. No change in the overall population will occur but the percentage of the whole population who have the favourable mutation will increase from 0.001% to closer to 100% while those without it gradually move in the opposite direction.

  It really is a very simple concept.
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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

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  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
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  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  cofty

  Because it is not what I think. It is a fact.
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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  cofty

  Duuning-Kruger thank you for that information. I have been unable to find any Islamic source that endorses human evolution.
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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  cofty

  How about - "Resistance to evolution is almost entirely found among Muslims and Protestant Evangelicals"?
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  cofty

  "At that point all the other pages are scrapped and every monkey is given a copy of this page."

  This is the part that takes many generations in the real world.
  
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  cofty

  Hooby you really don't get it.

  It illustrates how natural selection accumulates complexity - it doesn't get there in one lucky jump.

  The population is not reduced to just that individual who hosts the favourable mutation. The advantageous gene just gradually becomes more frequent in the population which doesn't get any smaller as a result.

  You made the mistake of taking a simple illustration that explains one aspect of a complex subject and tried to make it apply to the whole subject.
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  cofty

  That is because you totally misunderstood the illustration Hooby.
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  I need your opinions and recommendations please.

  by bola in

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  after my exit from the watchtower shunning cult, i have received tons of invitations from different churches.

  but because i am aware of religious cults, i need recommendations of churches that are not cults at all.

  after exiting the watchtower cult, i don't want to fall into another religious cults.

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  cofty

  All churches are cults. It is a spectrum. Some are less harmful than others. It all depends how much you value your right to do your own thinking.
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  Mathematically Measuring Evolution.

  by towerwatchman in

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  mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.

  morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.

  using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.

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  cofty

  No what you have is hundreds of fossils that demonstrate the entire journey from fins to legs.