The Like/Hate Thread

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It's not overreacting, it's an attempt to keep science from being dumbed down or distorted by religion. Religion deals with the supernatural, so science has nothing to say about it, but in the same Vein religion needs to mind it's business about science.

Maybe god did do it, science isn't refuting that. All it's saying is that whatever happened, this is how it happened.

no, back in the early days the system was wide open. the term was "re-creation," a habit among evolutionary biologists of yore that has gone out of style: you take a few fossilized bones and literally make up a creature out of them. of course, unrelated embarrassing faux discoveries (piltown man, etc) caused the field to clamp down and now we have a half-baked system locked into place. currently, a very small group of charismatic personalities are making the most of it by pretending to be philosopher-kings. but, unresolved questions don't go away, eventually the pendulum will swing back and the field will be more open, though i doubt it'll ever go back to the way it was before (thankfully)

I believe he's talking about currently living creatures, as in how Humans and Great Apes share a large amount of DNA, and even one of our chromosomes is a fused form of two chromosomes found in apes.

Also that all animals share some DNA in common which would make sense if we all evolved from a singular creature.

but without a record of the actual transitional phases, you only get part of the puzzle. common genetic patterns are not proof of total naturalism.