Aineo wrote:Discussion dealing with the speed of light:
Speed of Light
And the speed of light cannot change! Do you know why? Look up what the speed of light defines. You have no clue if you think changing this constant won't have repercussions, it's basic physics.
badme, all examples used to show the validity of macroevolution are observations of microevolution. Despite what evolutionists want to believe there is no real evidence in the fossil record for macroevolution other than assumptions based on what evolutionists want to believe.
Give a reason and preferably a study on why microevolutionary changes do not produce macroevolutionary changes.
As to ignoring DNA, which is a blueprint for building an organism, have you ever checked blueprints for buildings? You may find this a weak analogy but no matter if you are building a one-room shack or a 100-story skyscraper the basic plan is the same. Therefore similarities in DNA can also be used to demonstrate intelligent design.
That analogy was poor. Exactly how does that prove anything?
Talk Origins wrote: Different forms also (it is claimed) come from the same designer, so similar forms are not evidence of a common designer. Evidence for a designer must begin by specifying (before the fact) what is expected from the designer. When do we expect similar forms, and when do we expect different forms? "Intelligent design" theory will not answer that. Evolution theory has made that prediction, and the pattern of similarities and differences that we observe accords with what evolution predicts.
There are similarities that cannot rationally be attributed to design. For example, an endogenous retroviral element (ERV) is a retrovirus (a parasite) that has become part of the genome. There are several kinds of ERVs, and they can insert themselves at random locations. Humans and chimps have thousands of such ERVs in common -- the same type of ERV at the same location in the genome. [Lilith 2003]
Actual known designers use similar forms for similar functions and different forms for different functions. In life, we often see different forms for similar functions (e.g. different designs for bird, bat, and pterodactyl wings) and similar forms for different functions (e.g. spider webs for trapping flying insects, reinforcing tunnels, protecting eggs, transferring sperm, ballooning, marking a trail, serving as a safety line after jumping to escape a threat, and detecting motion).
justforfun000, what is interesting about your link to the HIV causes AIDS site controversy is it can be used to question any scientific theory taught as fact. BTW, AIDS is not a disease. AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. No one dies of AIDS; they die of cancer, pneumonia, organ failure or some other opportunistic disease.
Yeah, that's like saying no one dies from a gunshot, they just die from loss of circulatory fluid. This is arguing semantics and nothing more.
My brother’s death certificate listed his cause of death as liver failure. It does not mention he was being treated for cancer (KS) and other opportunistic diseases. My brother was never treated with antivirales. But then some people will discount this as personal experience and as anecdotal. This sites contention that people die as a result of the medications is both ludicrous and denies the fact that early victims of this pandemic were being treated for opportunistic diseases not the HIV virus. 60% of the early AIDS related deaths were due to Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).
Now back on topic; science asks if something is true; science does not ask that something is true.
Fighting a virus is infinitely harder than fighting most of the ordinarily tame diseases that take the chance to infect an AIDS patient. There have been instances of common fungal activity in the brain case of some people, a fungus that would never grow on or in the body of even a weak immune system carrying person. The death certificate analogy is useful for smoking where the death certificate never says "died of smoking", but usually "died of lung cancer" etc.