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Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

by cofty in

#1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

cofty

Tenacious - I watched the start of your first video. Within the first minute he misrepresents the meaning of the word "theory". This is a very ignorant mistake and destroys the credibility of the author. He also waffles about evolution not being a "law". Of course the theory of evolution is not a "law". That is just bizarre.

Then he makes the bald assertion that "natural selection is not an evolutionary process". What do you imagine he means by that?

Next comes the facile argument that you can't get a cat by selectively breeding dogs - The "crockoduck objection". Only somebody who knows literally nothing about evolution could attempt to make such a foolish argument.

Then we are treated to - "if evolution was true eskimos would have fur to keep them warm". Surely you didn't actually listen to this foolishness before you posted it! If you didn't then shame on you. If you did, then even more so.

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Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

by cofty in

#1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

cofty

What the evolutionary "thinkers" believe is that if you find common traits between two things, one of those things came from the other spontaneously. That about sums up all the "links" above. - Nimble Duck

It is very clear that you have read none of the posts I have written or in fact anything at all on the topic of evolution. "Common traits" is not a feature of any of the 40 threads in this series.

The evidence for the common ancestry of all living things is overwhelming. That is why the series of threads is called "Evolution is a Fact".

I challenge you to actually read the OPs of the 40 threads and refute them in your own words.

Evolutionists offer no proof that spontaneous and beneficial mutations have ever taken place. They just have "faith" that it does.

Of course that is factually incorrect. I have even described specific examples down to the level of individual letters of DNA in this series. Typically creationists just keep repeating these sort of lies to each other.

I know there are plenty of evolutionists here, and I know how they behave towards those who will not accept their nonsense. They are rude and forceful, just like the rest of the evolutionary society who rams their ideas down the throats of society and steamroll over anyone who objects.

Actually I only ever respond to objections calmly with facts, reason and evidence. On the other hand I have received countless insults, threats of damnation and personal attacks from Christians during this series of threads. Far from "steamrolling" over those who attempt to refute anything I have written I have taken many hours to respond to every single objection without exception.

They adopt and angry, in your face denial of true science, in favor of pseudoscientific garble.

Please tell me more about this "true science" of which you speak. Evolutionary biology is accepted as a fact by practically every scientist working in all relevant fields of research. Why do you call it pseudoscience?

Please tell me which books that present the scientific evidence for biological evolution you have studied?

I predict the answer is none and that you will evade this question - So far this prediction has a 100% success rate.

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Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

by cofty in

#1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

cofty

Tenacious If there is anything in the video that you find compelling and you are willing to have a conversation about I would like to do that.

DNA is the source of the strongest proof of biological evolution. There are many examples I am the above index I would like to hear your thoughts on.

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Subliminal images - why and who are the individuals behind it?

by UnshackleTheChains in

i remember about 5 years ago reading on another site about subliminal images in wt literature.

i honestly thought it a load of bs until i checked out one glaringly obvious image of a creepy skull in clouds within the knowledge book.

i was shocked and even showed my wife at the time who thought it was creepy.. so my question is why?

cofty

The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is today still a sect of Roman Christendom - Old Navy

That is a very strange statement. Surely the WT traces its roots to the 19th century Protestant Adventist movement.

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Evolution is a Fact - Index of Parts 1 - 40

by cofty in

#1 protein functional redundancy comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things..

#2 dna functional redundancy comparison of the dna that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy..

#3 ervs endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins..

cofty

#1 Protein Functional Redundancy
Comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things.

#2 DNA Functional Redundancy
Comparison of the DNA that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy.

#3 ERVs
Endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins.

#4 Smelly Genes
Hundreds of broken genes that used to code for olfactory receptors in our ancestors are still found in our genome.

#5 Vitamin C
Why humans can no longer make their own vitamin C and what that tells us about our species' history.

#6 Human Chromosome 2
Our second biggest chromosome is made up of two of our ancestors' chromosomes stuck end-to-end.

#7 Human Egg Yolk Gene
Humans and our primate cousins have the genes for making vitellogenin and they are all broken in the same way.

#8 Jumping Genes
Bits of parasitic code called ALU elements prove our common ancestry with primates.

#9 Less Chewing More Thinking
A broken gene for a type of muscle fibre we no longer have tells a story about our evolutionary past.

#10 Non-Coding DNA
In common with many other species huge amounts of our genome originated as copying errors.

#11 Tiktaalik
An amazing fossil discovery illustrates the transition of life from sea to land.

#12 Lenski's E.coli Experiment
An experiment with E.Coli, now in it's third decade, demonstrates the power of natural selection.

#13 Morris Minor Bonnets
Evolution has to make do with building on existing designs as illustrated by the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

#14 Joey Goes to Oz
Fossil evidence for the origins of marsupials found in Antarctica exactly as predicted.

#15 Robinson Crusoe
The biogeography of oceanic islands presents an impossible dilemma for creationism.

#16 Aquatic Mammals
An excellent sequence of fossils illustrates the evolutionary journey of whales from land to sea.

#17 Belyaev's Silver Foxes
A 50 year breeding programme demonstrates the amazing power of selection and the interconnected nature of genes.

#18 Fish Fingers
The evolution of limbs is mapped out in an amazing sequence of ancient fish fossils.

#19 Goosebumps
A vestigial reflex bequeathed by our hairier ancestors.

#20 Lucy in the Sky...
An exceptional fossil of a 3 million year old hominid.

#21 Footprints in the Sand...
Footprints at Laetoli show our Australopithecus afarensis ancestors were bipedal 3.6 million years ago.

#22 The Hillocks of Hiss...
A vestigial feature if the human ear shared by 10% of the population demonstrates our evolutionary history.

#23 Faunal Succession...
The consistent sequence of fossils found in the rocks can only be explained by evolution.

#24 The Origin of Your Inner Ear...
How the bones that reptiles eat with became the bones that we hear with.

#25 Deep Time...
Scottish geologist Andrew Hutton discovered the proof of earth's great antiquity.

#26 Colour Vision...
How gene duplication - new "information" -and mutation equipped us with trichromatic vision.

#27 Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc...
Evolution is a combination of random mutations and non-random selection.

#28 Something Darwin Didn't Say...
A long term study of pigeons demonstrates how natural selection acts on a local population.

#29 Use it or Lose it...
Fossil genes reveal the history of modern species.

#30 Your Third Eyelid...
The remnants of a nictitating membrane reveals our evolutionary history.

#31 Ten Questions For Creationists ...
The basic facts about reality covered so far pose an impossible challenge to creationism.

#32 Sexual Selection
How female mating preferences led to some of the most remarkable features of living things.

#33 A Tale About Tails
Human embryology reveals our primate history.

#34 Hiccups and Tadpoles
How hiccups are a relic of our amphibian ancestors.

#35 Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Nature's ability to inflict pain and suffering in the battle for survival.

#36 Mass Extinctions
96% of life was wiped out in The Great Dying 250 million years ago.

#37 Testicles
The plumbing of the vas deferens gives evidence of our fish ancestry

#38 The Origin of Complex Cells
How a merger of simple cells made complexity possible

#39 Homologous Structures
Evidence for common ancestry in our shared anatomy.

#40 What Use is Half an Eye?
First steps in the evolution of complex eyes.

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Looking for Scottish Ex-JW's to share their experiences (If out obviously)

by jambon1 in

jw
friends

raised in edinburgh and glasgow congregations.

lots of funny and interesting jw characters from the 90's & 2000's.

ian shanks.

cofty

No more cockles.

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Looking for Scottish Ex-JW's to share their experiences (If out obviously)

by jambon1 in

jw
friends

raised in edinburgh and glasgow congregations.

lots of funny and interesting jw characters from the 90's & 2000's.

ian shanks.

cofty

Maybe referring to Berwick about 20 years ago. Don't know of any others in the Borders.

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Looking for Scottish Ex-JW's to share their experiences (If out obviously)

by jambon1 in

jw
friends

raised in edinburgh and glasgow congregations.

lots of funny and interesting jw characters from the 90's & 2000's.

ian shanks.

cofty

The Edinburgh cong that had a white shirt hung up for visiting elders that wore coloured shirts.

Was that Corstorphine?

I was Coatbridge and then Dalkeith

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Evolution is a Fact #40 - What Use is Half an Eye?

by cofty in

creationists often refer to the words of darwin when he pondered the evolution of the complex eye.

he said that to suppose that the complex eye evolve by natural selection seems "absurd in the highest possible degree".

what they always ignore is that darwin went right on in the very next sentence to propose how the eye could have evolved and that numerous gradations must exist between the simplest light detecting organs and the complex vertebrate eye.. in the 150 years since darwin published his book not only have those gradations been discovered in the natural world but the very genes that build the eye have been discovered by science.

cofty

See numbers 19, 22, 30, 33 & 34

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Evolution is a Fact #40 - What Use is Half an Eye?

by cofty in

creationists often refer to the words of darwin when he pondered the evolution of the complex eye.

he said that to suppose that the complex eye evolve by natural selection seems "absurd in the highest possible degree".

what they always ignore is that darwin went right on in the very next sentence to propose how the eye could have evolved and that numerous gradations must exist between the simplest light detecting organs and the complex vertebrate eye.. in the 150 years since darwin published his book not only have those gradations been discovered in the natural world but the very genes that build the eye have been discovered by science.

cofty

Do you have an article on leftovers of body parts from when the human animal was something else?

Yes if you go through the index at the bottom of the OP there are a few threads on vestigial and atavistic features.

An important point to bear in mind is that these features rarely if ever have no purpose. Their history is shown in the fact that they no longer serve the same function as they did in our evolutionary ancestors. Creationists almost always miss this point.

If your rebuttals simply explain the reduced function of vestigial features then you have misunderstood the argument.