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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics- what is the Creationist explanation?

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It's not really a subject is it. I suppose you could ask how many people could fit on the bridge of the USS Enterprise and that could be a similar kind of 'subject' of investigation.
You're making no sense... as usual.

You believe in evolution 'within kinds' don't you?
I don't really call it "evolution"; I call it variation. All of those finches whose "evolution" Darwin studied were still finches. That's just variation within the created kind.

The evolution does not extend beyond 'kinds' in any way. Therefore the kinds are the limits. You can believe that the kinds are a starting point and still have them as the limits.
Sure, but the kinds do not magically turn into other kinds. That's just simple science. Cows make baby cows, birds make baby birds, dogs make baby dogs, etc. etc. etc.

More alt-facts for religious fundamentalists.
No, it's a real fact. If you'd like to be the first to disprove it, have at it.

Can you tell me what in nature was designed by a supreme intelligence and what wasn't?
At least SOME things as opposed to your NOTHING (which is just plain idiotic).

What are the criteria for it being 'obvious'? Cancers can seem quite cunning in the way they dodge the attention of the immune system. Did the supreme intelligence creatively design cancer?
The supreme intelligence put a curse on His creation due to man's sin.

Do you know how big the largest wooden boat that could float without breaking up was?

Stuart
The dimensions are in a book called the Bible. You should go look for yourself.

Your willful ignorance is tiring.
 

Stuu

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You're making no sense... as usual.
As you might be aware, the USS Enterprise is a fictional ship. Just like the alleged ark.

I don't really call it "evolution"; I call it variation. All of those finches whose "evolution" Darwin studied were still finches. That's just variation within the created kind.
I would return you then to my earlier question about how you think the finches came to be different. How did seven pairs of birds (assuming tanagers are clean animals) become 14 or 15 species, living on the island in the archipelago with the kind of food that matches the beak shape?

It's interesting that when Darwin visited the Galapagos he was thinking as a creationist and assumed that the different species of these birds represented 'centres of creation'. It was only later when he examined the birds he took back to England that he started thinking in terms of transmutation of species.

Your model has up to seven pairs of some ancestral finch kind. I don't know what modern species you would put within the 'kind' of finches, since Darwin's finches are actually from the family of tanagers, and are not related to true finches very closely. So my questions are, how did the limited variation contained in 14 birds get expressed as at least 14 different species (but possibly many more), and why are these birds only found in the Galapagos Islands?

Sure, but the kinds do not magically turn into other kinds. That's just simple science. Cows make baby cows, birds make baby birds, dogs make baby dogs, etc. etc. etc.
If you use simple science you get a wrong answer.

No, it's a real fact. If you'd like to be the first to disprove it, have at it.
You claimed this: It has been proven time and again that chemical do NOT come to life by natural processes.
It's not my job to demonstrate anything regarding your claim. Since you asserted it without supporting evidence or argument, I will just dismiss it without supporting evidence or argument.

At least SOME things as opposed to your NOTHING (which is just plain idiotic).
Can you tell me what in nature was designed by a supreme intelligence and what wasn't?

The supreme intelligence put a curse on His creation due to man's sin.
It's up to you to believe in a vindictive god. But you made this claim: We, on the other hand, see the obvious creative design in nature and therefore INFER that there was a supreme intelligence involved. That is a FAR more scientific and logical conclusion.

What tells you that natural has creative design in it? How do you tell the difference between what was designed and what was not designed?

The dimensions are in a book called the Bible. You should go look for yourself.
The largest wooden boat known to have been made is the New England schooner Wyoming. Depending on what you think a cubit is, the Wyoming was of similar size, or perhaps slightly smaller than the dimensions of the ark given in Genesis. The Wyoming did serve as a merchant vessel for a number of years, but it sank in heavy seas with the loss of all lives. It managed to last as long as it did because it had a large amount of iron bracing inside, and pumps that worked constantly to remove the water that leaked in between the constantly twisting and buckling planks. In the end, and despite the bracing and pumping, the planks twisted and buckled and let in the water that sank her.

I didn't see a mention of iron bracing or pumps in Genesis. Did you?

Your willful ignorance is tiring.
You poor thing.

Stuart
 

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As you might be aware, the USS Enterprise is a fictional ship. Just like the alleged ark.
The ark is real. Your "world" is imaginary.

I would return you then to my earlier question about how you think the finches came to be different. How did seven pairs of birds (assuming tanagers are clean animals) become 14 or 15 species, living on the island in the archipelago with the kind of food that matches the beak shape?
They didn't "become" different in the sense that you're thinking. They always had the genes for all types of beaks.

It's interesting that when Darwin visited the Galapagos he was thinking as a creationist and assumed that the different species of these birds represented 'centres of creation'. It was only later when he examined the birds he took back to England that he started thinking in terms of transmutation of species.
Darwin was wrong about so many things. It's telling that you cling to him.

Your model has up to seven pairs of some ancestral finch kind. I don't know what modern species you would put within the 'kind' of finches, since Darwin's finches are actually from the family of tanagers, and are not related to true finches very closely. So my questions are, how did the limited variation contained in 14 birds get expressed as at least 14 different species (but possibly many more), and why are these birds only found in the Galapagos Islands?
What is the problem? Learn about genetics.

If you use simple science you get a wrong answer.
:rotfl:

If you use make believe you get a wrong answer.

You claimed this: It has been proven time and again that chemical do NOT come to life by natural processes.
It's not my job to demonstrate anything regarding your claim. Since you asserted it without supporting evidence or argument, I will just dismiss it without supporting evidence or argument.
It's a well documented fact. Please do you own research instead of just believing in magic.

Can you tell me what in nature was designed by a supreme intelligence and what wasn't?
Your fake question does not amuse.

Here are a one obvious answer: DNA
 

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The ark is real. Your "world" is imaginary.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/could-noahs-ark-float-theory-yes-180950385/

https://arkencounter.com/animals/how-many/

So, the Ark could float (at least in theory), and if AiG is anywhere near correct for the number of animals (only 7,000 total), then that solves the weight problem...

Sounds like we've got a working theory.

They didn't "become" different in the sense that you're thinking. They always had the genes for all types of beaks.


* Finches Adapt in 17 Years, Not 2.3 Million: As for Charles Darwin's finches, they're claimed to have taken 2,300,000 years to diversify from an initial species blown onto the Galapagos Islands. Yet individuals from a single finch species on a U.S. Bird Reservation in the Pacific were introduced to a group of small islands 300 miles away and in at most 17 years, like Darwin's finches, they had diversified their beaks, related muscles, and behavior to fill various ecological niches. See also Jean Lightner's review of the Grants' 40 Years.


https://rsr.org/spetner

Darwin was wrong about so many things. It's telling that you cling to him.

https://kgov.com/bel/20181012

What is the problem? Learn about genetics.

:rotfl:

If you use make believe you get a wrong answer.

It's a well documented fact. Please do you own research instead of just believing in magic.

https://kgov.com/bel/20180717

Your fake question does not amuse.

Here are a one obvious answer: DNA

:thumb:
 

Stuu

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The ark is real. Your "world" is imaginary.
Why would there be an ark when there was never a global flood?

They didn't "become" different in the sense that you're thinking. They always had the genes for all types of beaks.
I didn't use the word different.

How did seven pairs of birds (assuming tanagers are clean animals) become 14 or 15 species, living on the island in the archipelago with the kind of food that matches the beak shape?

Darwin was wrong about so many things. It's telling that you cling to him.
You make a strawman argument. I don't cling to anything. If you could disprove evolution by natural selection, or give good corroborating evidence for a global flood I would change my mind. Would you ever change your mind about anything?

What is the problem? Learn about genetics.
The problem for your assertion is the mechanism of Mendelian genetics. How does it work to have a handful of birds containing all the genetic information when one bird cannot contain more than two alleles, say for any specific monohybrid trait? Where is all that extra information stored, and how does it get moved into the right place on the correct chromosome, and what event prompts it to be moved there?

In other words, how did the limited variation contained in 14 birds get expressed as at least 14 different species (but possibly many more)?

I am asking you for joined-up thinking here.

It's a well documented fact.
Can you link to a document?

Here are a one obvious answer: DNA
And what is it about DNA that makes it 'obviously' designed?

Stuart
 

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Why would there be an ark when there was never a global flood?
Repeating your falsehoods does not make them true.

I didn't use the word different.

How did seven pairs of birds (assuming tanagers are clean animals) become 14 or 15 species, living on the island in the archipelago with the kind of food that matches the beak shape?
I don't know or care. It makes no different to the issue at hand.

You make a strawman argument. I don't cling to anything. If you could disprove evolution by natural selection, or give good corroborating evidence for a global flood I would change my mind. Would you ever change your mind about anything?
Evolution by natural selection is a creationist idea.

I did change my mind, that's why I'm a creationist.

The problem for your assertion is the mechanism of Mendelian genetics. How does it work to have a handful of birds containing all the genetic information when one bird cannot contain more than two alleles, say for any specific monohybrid trait? Where is all that extra information stored, and how does it get moved into the right place on the correct chromosome, and what event prompts it to be moved there?
Trying to sound like you know something?

And what is it about DNA that makes it 'obviously' designed?

Stuart
LOL

This is why it's impossible to discuss science with you.

https://www.everystudent.com/wires/Godreal.html
 

Stuu

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Repeating your falsehoods does not make them true. I don't know or care. It makes no different to the issue at hand. Evolution by natural selection is a creationist idea. I did change my mind, that's why I'm a creationist. Trying to sound like you know something? LOL
Your point being what?

This is why it's impossible to discuss science with you.
I don't remember you even trying that yet.

And which of those authorities appeals to you the most?

Stuart
 
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