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Originally posted by SinisterMotives
One need only look at the human genome to see that it is not only very elegantly coded but that it is coded in the only possible way it could've been in order to function correctly. [/B]
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Splendid. That's a very powerful and elegant summary of how evolution works. Those genomes which make organisms that aren't very good at existing, stop existing, because there is no organism to carry and reproduce them.
However, to say 'only possible way' is misleadingly ambiguous. If this were true, we would be the only species on Earth and everyone would be a clone. Clearly this isn't the case, but I'm really just being pedantic.
The story of the Garden of Eden may well be true. To believe it, we would have to throw all reasoning out of the window and replace it with the argument from authority (It's true, because I say so, and what I say goes, because I say so and what I say goes....) Admittedly all forms of reasoning are necessarily incomplete/circular, but if we're just going to stop reasoning, we may as well make up any old story to explain things, leaving evolution equally as valid as creation. Or we could sit here going "bululbulblubulbulbblubblub" with our fingers in our lips (try it, it's fun!)
However, I'm happy to work with inductive and deductive reasoning for the moment. Consequently, I go for Evolution.
Just a quick note. Please do not call Creationism a theory. Whether or not it's true, it does not fit any of the criteria for a theory. See definitions
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There is no such thing as the "Theory of The Garden of Eden" or "Creation Theory", no matter what the Biology textbooks tell you. Think of it like this:
-You don't believe in Creation just because you read it in the Bible do you?
-I'm not that stupid. It's just as valid a theory as evolution. Look, it says here...