Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters
Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, argues Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Battle for Science and Religion in this talk presented by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego. Series: Helen Edison Lecture Series [5/2009] [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 15584]
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The theory of evolution has withstood tests for over 100 years, passing each times. It’s the only explanation we have for a the incredible adaptation and complexity of life and is supported by mountains of evidence. If the creationists had any evidence to support their incredible claims, they’d have presented it by now.
He should include a section on how genetic algorithms are used in Computer Science to approximate solutions to optimization problems using randomness. Much the same life is an optimization on the problem of survival and replication.
Moreover, speaking of definitions:
The very term “Evolution” is always applied to those things that evolve via intelligent means (such as evolution of a company or a screenplay etc). The ONLY time the term “evolution” is applied to mean the complete OPPOSITE is by Darwinists in connection to biological evolution i.e.; one genus (kind) evolving into another genus (kind) without ANY evidence as to how or why. Their application of the term evolution is based upon nothing: based on nonsense.
“Wikipedia? haha don’t you watch the news? Wikipedia is an online public toilet of sorts”
It is still better than your brain
By the way, send your new and revised definition of information and language to Webster’s dictionary, and also see if you can have Shannon revised to include your misunderstanding of Information, and also see if you can get mathematicians to throw out everything they know, so the world can follow you off the high cliff of non scientific nonsense.
It won’t happen.
DNA code is empirical proof that biological life forms are a creative product of information and language.
Wikipedia? haha don’t you watch the news? Wikipedia is an online public toilet of sorts where anyone can post whatever false information they want and then lock others out form correcting it. wiki is a joke. How long have you been online? get informed. wiki is so bias (one-sided liberal atheist slant) that it inspired the advent of conservapedia. wiki is the liberal view and conservapedia is the conservative view.
“Darwin matters” to Evos because in the foundational document for Evolution theory itself, called:
“Origin Of The Species By Means Of natural Selection / Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life”, Darwin asserts that black people are the closest relatives to apes and that white people are at the top of the beast-into-man “genus to genus” evolutionary ladder. According to Darwin, mankind has achieved various levels of evolution culminating in the white man’s civilization.
Evolution is based on a fairy tale.
DISCOVERY Channel’s Evolution educational VIDEO: Explaining how fish became the blueprint for our genetics, then they turned into
dinosaurs, and eventually turned into people.
watch?v=5W763lQR0tU
For more about our “origins” check this out. It is about what’s in all the school books regarding origins. (rocks turning into people)
watch?v=OjprkQbOouQ
Dig it!
You are profoundly stupid Mr88playmaker. I suggest going to school, failing that try wikipedia for some definitions of the terms you are using.
DNA code is empirical proof that biological life forms are a creative product of information and language.
(A) Information is: the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence.
(B) Information exist independent of its medium.
(the same information can be stored in one’s mind, expressed verbally, written on paper, typed on a computer etc.)
(C) Code = Language. Language originates in a MIND.
There ore only two types of language known to man: (1) That of human mind origin (2) DNA code.
Information is not matter or energy.
Language is not matter or energy.
@judaserebus
We all have faith
Chrstians have faith In God
Atheists have faith in randomness. ( nothingness
@kingdmculture
shermer needs a Savior
@ some of the atheist posters I’ve read here: I’m agnostic myself, but I happen to know many religious men and women who are actually very nice people. They don’t call names and they don’t foist their religion on anyone. Some believe evolution, some don’t. Some tend to vote Republican, some don’t. They wouldn’t make nasty blanket statements about you, so on their behalf, I’d like to ask you not to make blanket statements about them. Thank you.
@ ultraphonic1; I’ve witnessed evolution. So have Creationists. The flu virus evolves so quickly that we have to issue new flu vaccines every year. TB has now evolved resistance to many antibiotics, too.
That’s why evolution is important to understand, so we don’t accidentally render one of the greatest advances in medicine (antibiotics) totally useless. Plague, anyone?
(btw, I’m purposefully ignoring the difference between micro and macro evolution here)
Creation occurs only in the present moment and therefore is verifiably a fact. We see creation at work in each and every moment…even when what we see is labeled “destruction.”
On the other hand, not one human alive has been an eyewitness to evolution. That being said, we do have physical evidence from the past that we can use in the moment to conclude that evolution has occured over time.
Neither evolution or creation are theories, they are verifiable facts.
The bible is a fraud, but it’s also one of the most beautiful, intelligent and eloquent frauds ever conceived by man. It is not factually true. But it is true in their lives and their experience. It has been true to them from the start. They will not ever give it up and you don’t have anything to offer them that’s comparable. All you have to give them is death and your own inane empty arguments.
The Flood would also wipe out all life on earth. There are numerous reasons for that. For one: If there were only two lions and two gazelles, the lions would eat the gazelles and then starve to death. The Flood would only create organized columns if it chewed up all the continental stone on the planet. If it did that, you wouldn’t see things as neatly layered as you do. But while we’re on “let’s face it,” you know as well as I do that people can’t walk on water. The Bible is not true.
Indeed. Google “religious communism”.
“Some communists were atheists”?
Are you saying some weren’t?
Funny. Reminds me of “Pompous Pedophile Priests Publically Pretending to be Pious while Privately Porking Pre-Pubescent Parishioners with their Pathetically Puny Penises” (user FireDragons, Atheist Experience chat, 2009-11-08).
Fact: Rules of logic are necessarily agnostic to deities. No such thing as “atheistic logic”.
Fact: Some communists are/were atheists. Many worshipped the new leaders like the old zcars.
Fact: the theory of evolution by natural selection is the only successful one.
Of course Evolution is (technically) unproven and unprovable. That’s how it is with ALL theories… they are only ever DIS-proven if and when a better theory comes along. That’s what happened to The Biblical Creation Theory, when Natural Selection was realised to be the mechanism by which Evolution occurred.
Seems you are like me. I have found religion itself is SO much more interesting to study, now that I’ve realised there [probably] is no god.
Coconuts? In the middle east?