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Originally posted by oldtimer
It's true I don't always look at things from a scientific approach but my "design" rant was trying to establish that an evolution theory (creation from a single celled ameba to what we have today) is unlikely rather than impossible. I stated in that rant things, not too complex, but things that weren't complex enough in the first place to be considered "complex". I'm sure skin, hair, bone, and "nipples" couldn't have all "evolved" from an ameba. Some refer to this as ignorance but this truly could be beyond comprehension.
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"I'm sure skin, hair, bone, and "nipples" couldn't have all "evolved" from an ameba."
How are you so
sure of this? The real thing you should say is that you find it difficult to comprend. Me too buddy! But you have to remember the time scale we are dealing with...BILLIONS of years.
To give you an idea, I'll describe a demonstration by Richard Dawkins:
He reaches his arm outstretched to one side.
"From the tip of my nose, down along my arm up my forefinger, to the very tip of my fingernail, represents the life time of our planet"
He then takes a nail file, an flakes a minute dust-like piece off his nail.
"I have now erased all of human history. The great empires of Rome and Greece. The egyptians and their pharoahs. Destroyed all existence of early man"
That is the sort of mind boggling time scale we have to deal with. Which, in my mind, is a lot of the reason why people have such objections to evolution.
Anyway, to address your original question oldtimer, I would point you to the seminal book by Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker. Its an incredibly well written book. It conveys evolution with amazing clarity (the reason why I have been shameless whoring it on this board), and after reading it, whatever your views are, they certaintly won't be down to ignorance of the facts.