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Post your links proving evolution

Heh, thanks, I should start transferring the content I've written on other boards over to this one.

Time to organize the electronic library I suppose.

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Post your links proving evolution

Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me Cool

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Chaoslord2004 wrote:
Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me 8-)

you're scary..hahah..just kiddin'.


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LeftofLarry wrote:
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Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me 8-)

you're scary..hahah..just kiddin'.

Oh yeah? Why is that? Laughing out loud

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Chaoslord2004 wrote:
LeftofLarry wrote:
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Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me 8-)

you're scary..hahah..just kiddin'.

Oh yeah? Why is that? :lol:

your impassioned interest in philosophy/linguistics/logic etc...it's great I think. But I humbly don't understand much of it. so you're scary..hahahah..... Laughing out loud


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LeftofLarry wrote:
Chaoslord2004 wrote:
LeftofLarry wrote:
Chaoslord2004 wrote:
Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me 8-)

you're scary..hahah..just kiddin'.

Oh yeah? Why is that? :lol:

your impassioned interest in philosophy/linguistics/logic etc...it's great I think. But I humbly don't understand much of it. so you're scary..hahahah..... :D

Fair enough Cool

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If you want empirical

If you want empirical evidence of evolution, just check out Monsanto's research, or any bioengineering institution, in regards to new species and genus.

Evolution is any new life form(species,genus), that did not previously exist, arising from the genetic pool of other like forms(not a special individual creation by an act of a god), or the process of this occuring, is evolution.

Since humans are natural biological creatures, this is evolution as well(not created by a supernatural being), as we become similar to other animals and plants that influence and effect the evolution and change, of even other plants and animals by their selective interaction, or parasitic, or symbiotic relationship. Since a human can create new species, and or causing the conditions for them to occur suddenly, this could be "artificial" evolution, but evolution none the less, since these life forms arose genetically from previously existing life forms, and were not the spontanious result of an act of a god. This would be certain proof of evolution.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gVf_yDDV4

There I prove common ancestory with chimps in under 2 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKsMsz6dBac

chadagg does a pretty dam good job of showing our realationship to Neanderthals.

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Researchers witness natural

Researchers witness natural selection at work in dramatic comeback of male butterflies. 

http://www.physorg.com/news103469691.html

Researchers discover evidence of very recent human adaptation

http://www.physorg.com/news103381323.html

 Swapping genes to change species.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/28/bacteria_hea.html?category=health 

Sounds made up...
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Great study going on at the Georgia Tech!

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http://talkorigins.org/index

http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

A list of several popular creationist claims along with responses for each one.

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I recommend

I recommend

http://evolution.berkeley.edu

It explains everything very simply, and offers tons of empirical proof for evolution. Here is one of my blog posts that I believe proves evolution beyond any reasonable doubt:

http://gillslits.blogspot.com/2007/09/endogenous-retroviruses-prove-evolution.html 


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  Pulled this article from

 

Pulled this article from Natural History. It provides various examples of natural selection in action, including the Galapagos finches. There is also some discussion about speciation in sockeye salmon by way of reproductive isolation.

 

http://files.meetup.com/217965/Jonathan-Weiner.pdf 

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LeftofLarry wrote:
Chaoslord2004 wrote:
LeftofLarry wrote:
Chaoslord2004 wrote:
Oh man, the Evolution of Language sounds kickass. Anything that has to do with Linguistics interests me 8-)
you're scary..hahah..just kiddin'.
Oh yeah? Why is that? :lol:
your impassioned interest in philosophy/linguistics/logic etc...it's great I think. But I humbly don't understand much of it. so you're scary..hahahah..... :D

Linguistics is Kickass try this simply experiment. Imagine two cavemen sitting around a fire, about 46,000 BCE- give or take a few days, we'll call them Gus and Louie, they're wondering what to call this long stringy stuff growing out of their heads. Louie takes a lock between his thumb and index finger and rubs it over his ear, he grunts out the sound he hears and a new word is invented "seesar", Gus does the same experiment and hears the same result, A scientific test confirming the first result, or plagerisim. Is your hair still as long as in the photo Larry? Try it. CEASER means "hairy", our word hair comes from an early french pronunciation of 'seesar' into 'scheesair' anglo/saxons turned that into 'hair' and also part it of into 'shear' and 'share'. Once upon a time a Roman General named Gaius Julian became so famous his nickname CEASER "hairy man" came to mean Emperor, in German Kaiser in Russian Tsar.

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Post your links proving evolution

I was hoping to help you out here, but I can't find any links that prove evolution. Sorry.

I can find a couple that disprove it if that's any good...

This first article proves that life can't start on its own.

http://www.icr.org/articles/print/4348/

This second article proves that even if life could start on its own, the first protein wouldn't appear until about 5 billion years time. (It takes 60,000 of these proteins in about 200 complex bondings to make up a simple living cell.

http://www.redskynews.com/books/imp-317.pdf

This means that life couldn't possibly have started on its own and there hasn't been enough time for macro evolution to take place either.

Hope that helps.

 


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A is both wrong and

A is both wrong and irrelevant.
B is also wrong and irrelevant.

Links provided in this very topic conveniently refute both arguments before you even presented them, so that's all the effort this foolishness deserves.

Hope it helps.

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The first link only contains

The first link only contains arguments against abiogenesis, not evolution. 

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For a minimal cell, 60,000 proteins of 100 different configurations would be needed.

Jesus, what is this, like the 1 quadrillionth time we've all heard this stupid probability argument? 

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OK, sorry chaps. My links were a bit unkind and uncalled for.

 

I wish you all the best and I hope you wipe out the "Christian" hatred.

 

God Bless

 

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And we wish you the best at

And we wish you the best at dragging yourself out of the primordial muck, ridding yourself of the need to make bullshit claims with a steaming pile of sarcasm as the side dish.

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