Re: Evolution is not a fact

On Apr 28, 7:24 pm, "Apocalypse" <Apocaly...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bob Casanova" <nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:53:42 -0500, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by "Apocalypse"
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"Ray Martinez" <pyramid...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 28, 8:41 am, hersheyh <hershe...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 28, 10:43 am, "Apocalypse" <Apocaly...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Shane" <remar...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Do "street smarts" tell you why the sun can continue to
provide energy for billions of years?

Yes. Anyone with common sense can comprehend the general processes taking
place on the sun *and that* the sun has a finite amount of stuff to support
those processes *and that* this process will run it's course over a set
period of time and the stuff will run out.

Here's a loose analogy for your pompus self. Do you need a PHD to know how
far down the road a tank of gas will get you?

Evidence supporting evolution of species is lacking (to me obsurd) and for
someone like you who comes across as having an IQ higher than their age
calling this a fact.....with a straight face? Laughable.

Do "street smarts"
tell you how your computer works (the circuitry, not the
"on" switch and mouse buttons)?

Do you need to be an electrical engineer to know what do to when a light
bulb doesn't work?

Not a chance; street smarts
can tell you how to act in the 'hood, but provide no help
whatsoever when the subject is technical and requires more
than a 6th-grade education.

Laughable.

Apparently "street smarts" are also incapable of
distinguishing an observed fact (speciation, in the lab and
in nature) from the proposed explanation of that observed
fact, which you mistakenly call "evolution".

Speciation in a lab? Really? Do tell.

(A)

It's funny that you admit to both knowing nothing about a subject and
at the same time knowing more than those who have devoted their lives
to the study and investigation of that subject. It truly is
"obsurd" (sic), which is spelled "absurd" to those having an education
higher than the second grade.

Intuition, on which you base most of your conclusions, is so easy to
fool and so often wrong that the scientific method uses it only in the
very first step of problem solving (hypothesis formation) and even
then only when insufficient information is present, and it only works
for that that have intimate knowledge of the subject. After that,
analysis subject to independent confirmation wins out. This is
precisely because "street smarts", "intuition", and "common sense" are
so unreliable in the real world of science. If "common sense" were
all we had, we'd never have invented flash memory, since it relies on
a highly counter-intuitive mechanism to work.

Lee Jay

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