Devolving Darwin (Evolution and other flawed origin stories)

[Seneca]

Hybridisation doesn't work because you need more than one species to make a new one, so where do the first two different species come from? They can't come from hybridisation can they?. Can't work.

I mean it cant work as the origin of species. The process requires multiple species while trying to explain multiple species. Hope that's clearer.

It is still not entirely clear but I think you mean that it can't explain the origin of every "species". That is right. McCarthy proposes what he calls stabilisation processeses, including hybridization andpolyploidy only as an explanation for the emergence of new 'species'.
He admitted in an e-mail conversation that he can't explain the existence of the first species or the first forms of life.
So what I wrote about a month ago still stands:

I am only reading and thinking about this (the ideas of Eugene McCarthy) for a few days. As far as I can tell, he doesn't try to explain the origin of life or the origin of the oldest organisms. I don't think his work is incompatible with intelligent design. It is more compatible than conventional evolution theory.

For example, based on a different interpretation of fossils, he rejects the idea of Neo-Darwinians that all mammals evolved from a single ancestor. Instead he shows how many different types of animals, that are currently living came from very similar creatures that existed earlier and whose fossils are wrongly attributed to reptiles or "dinosaurs". As an example let's look at fossils of ancient winged creatures called Pterosaurs. Mainstream science thinks these were flying creatures that went completely extinct (even birds didn't evolve from them). Also according to mainstream theory, mammals grew wings that gradually improved until they could fly and thus evolved into bats. Despite that no fossils of intermediate forms are found. Eugene McCarthy questions the claim that these Pterosaurs were reptiles. He argues that they probably were mammals and they "evolved"* into bats. The differences between the 2 kinds are not that big.
Another example: whales.

widely accepted theory claims that whales are descended from a tiny, shrewlike animal, and that the whole transformation required only 10 or 20 million years. ...
"They fail to mention, or perhaps do not realize, that whalelike, whale-sized creatures existed already in the Cretaceous, prior to the Paleocene."

He goes on to explain the similarity between these "extinct reptiles" and modern whales and argues that it is more likely that these types of animals "evolved" into whales.
This is from chapter 9 of his book "forms of life", that PianoRacer linked to in his first post. http://www.macroevolution.net/support-f ... f_life.pdf A shorter version can be found here: http://www.macroevolution.net/mesozoic.html

This is not incompatible with the idea of a creator that has created a limited number of life forms of which some can interbreed. It also isn't incompatible with an other idea, I don't know if it has a name. The idea that the universe and life have always existed. We think that these both have to have a beginning but for me there is no compelling reason why this should be. And perhaps also no evidence, since the big bang is probably a hoax.
*I am using the word evolved between parentheses because it has not the same meaning as we are used to.

[aa5]

On human near infertility. If gradual Darwinian evolution was the whole story, near all human females would be nymphos who would get knocked up on virtually every cycle when they weren't already pregnant. What we see in reality is most women have marginal fertility & next to no sex drive in comparison to females of ancient animals like chimpanzees.

[Flabbergasted]

What we see in reality is most women have marginal fertility & next to no sex drive [...].

We must live on different planets, aa5. Where I live, fertility is certainly not marginal, and female sex drive is more like permanent overdrive. No exceptions I can remember.

You may be seeing the damage caused by processed foods, artificial environments, social engineering and spiritual alienation. Not an evolutionary issue.

[hoi.polloi]

Sometimes I really wish we had more of the fairer sex posting on our forum.

[agraposo]

The BIg Question is :


How long have I got to live?

From Arnold Ehret - Mucusless Diet Healing System (1922)
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.221411/2015.221411.Mucusless-Diet#page/n53/mode/2up

The Formula of Life
The Secret of Vitality
LESSON V.

'V' = 'P' - 'O' ('V' equals 'P' minus '0') is the formula of Life and yet at the same time you may call it the formula of death.

"V" stands for VITALITY.

"P," or call it "X," the unknown quantity in this question, is the POWER that drives the human machinery, which keeps you alive, which gives you strength and efficiency, endurance for as yet an unknown length of time without food!

"O" means OBSTRUCTION, encumbrance, foreign matters, toxemias, mucus; in short, all internal impurities which obstruct the circulation, the function of internal organs especially, and the human engine in its entire functioning system.

You can therefore see thru this equation that as soon as "O" becomes greater than "P" the human machine must come to a standstill.

Sorry to say, but with all the things you have eaten in your life, if you have never cleansed your system, "O" must be very high!

[patrix]

Sorry to say, but with all the things you have eaten in your life, if you have never cleaned your system, "O" must be very high!

Agreed, time is running out, but there is a slim hope of remedy - The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse
https://www.amazon.com/Liver-Gallbladde ... 1569756066
Buy one, preferably two, of these books before it is too late...

[agraposo]

Agreed, time is running out, but there is a slim hope of remedy - The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse
https://www.amazon.com/Liver-Gallbladde ... 1569756066
Buy one, preferably two, of these books before it is too late...

Dind't you say that Andreas Moritz's liver cleanses are dangerous?

Andreas Moritz I am suspicious of for example. He is in my opinion pretty spot on when it comes to explaining what cancer is, but then he promotes veganism and so called liver cleanses which I think is both dangerous and ineffective. It’s like Flat Earth DBA.

viewtopic.php?p=2403275#p2403275

[patrix]

Dind't you say that Andreas Moritz's liver cleanses are dangerous?

I was trying to be funny/ironic and assumed you where too.

[agraposo]

Dind't you say that Andreas Moritz's liver cleanses are dangerous?

I was trying to be funny/ironic and assumed you where too.

Ok. Andreas Moritz was another charlatan and book seller, in my opinion. In his books he is very critic with drug therapies, but I was astonished to find that he promotes as a healing system to look at paintings! It's called Ener-Chi Art. What a nonsense.

http://www.ener-chi.com/

[agraposo]

Sometimes I really wish we had more of the fairer sex posting on our forum.

"Crushing evolution theory is fun and easy"


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukVQC9X8Ss

Funny video about evolution and the hybridization nonsense.


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C0LFW8ZIE0

At 8:50: "If you have talent writing children's stories, but are worried the field is too competitive, think seriously about a career in evolutionary biology".

And see at 9:00 the next logical evolutionary step for our supposed parent, the pig.

At 9:15, the ancestor of primates.

At 12:10, humans are not covered with fur like all the apes.

At 13:40, the aquatic ape theory.

At 15:30: "We got smart from eating fish and living in water".

Long but entertaining article that demolishes evolution theory:
http://newgeology.us/presentation32.html

[hoi.polloi]

@ 17:27 "Saying bats evolved sonar to catch moths in the dark is like saying a canvas evolved paint to portray mythical scenes."

Although I respect what you've posted here, I must say as skeptical scientists looking into evolution they could be using much better language. I know what they are trying to say, but they are not articulating it well and I think we could do better if we had more conversations about this.

One of the main things I am attracted to in the video is the first part, where it says we do not see the "midway" points between vastly different species said to be connected. This is a majorly flawed argument on two points. (Not because of its correctness or incorrectness but because of how it fails to satisfactorily explain these points).

1. The evolutionary beneficial mutation is said to be "randomly mutating" and kept in check by various co-evolving species due to the active life of organic living cells, substances, tissues and so on. So comparing a hypothetical modus of deconstructed versions (e.g.; paper made from organic plants, paint from polymers and/or organic/processed substances) to the active living cells we can observe in action seems wrong.

It is apparent to me that if we are to discuss evolution, regardless of the talk of another force — a force for life or metaphysical force or otherwise, then we must acknowledge that even evolutionists imply some "special" quality to life that makes it capable of evolution and meaningful mutation. As weird as that is, the discussion of evolution often misses the greatest question, which is what gives life its special ability to change. This is not really discussed; it is just implied that life can evolve because it is substances with life force. DNA, molecular chain reactions and so on might be the atheistic explanation.

2. The idea that horses became foxes or something else seems to be a straw man. Or at least, to pick the most absurd suggestions is to miss the point of a lot of evolutionary ideas. From my understanding, though I am not saying it makes logical sense without a much more involved explanation, the concept (at least) is that things co-evolve and determine each other's evolutionary paths through a kind of constant competition and change. There is no fictional "isolated" evolution as the video makes countless examples of. This is missing the point. The idea behind evolution is that the special qualities of living organisms causes them to branch off and sort of flower into various dead ends.

I am not saying this makes sense, nor that we can prove that DNA is still spontaneously emerging from a primordial soup, nor that this DNA will again launch into a billion successful paths that will also lead to ultimate extinctions. I am just saying that people criticizing the existing theory should not exaggerate, and that maybe we would be better served in at least acknowledging the exact problems with the theory's incompleteness. I hope this makes sense and this doesn't sound stupid.

I recognize many problems and questions I have with/for evolutionary theory. But I don't think the video articulates them in the most incredible way.

[agraposo]

Although I respect what you've posted here, I must say as skeptical scientists looking into evolution they could be using much better language. I know what they are trying to say, but they are not articulating it well and I think we could do better if we had more conversations about this.

I just say it was funny to watch these videos.

One of the main things I am attracted to in the video is the first part, where it says we do not see the "midway" points between vastly different species said to be connected. This is a majorly flawed argument on two points. (Not because of its correctness or incorrectness but because of how it fails to satisfactorily explain these points).

Of course, this was realized by Darwin in his Origin of Species book, and he dedicated a lot of pages to discuss all these inconsistencies, saying at the end that the problem was the inaccurate geological record. Well, 158 years later, the fossils of intermediate species are still missing. Others would say that the theory was incomplete, and now they call it Neo-Darwinism, and that the new theory is much better, and so on.

If the videos were not serious enough, maybe the information in this web site is better articulated. It contains reviews of more books about evolution that I could read in my whole life.

http://wasdarwinwrong.com/index.htm#Reviews

Just an example:

http://wasdarwinwrong.com/kortho18.htm

Chapter 8: The Fossil Record

The shortest possible summary of this chapter is: intermediates have not been found because they never existed! Only someone like Denton can think this, and interpret the data accordingly. That is what he does in this chapter on the age-old problem of the missing links in the fossil record.

Maybe that site can be used by interested people to find information about specific problems with the evolution theory that have been dealt with by other persons before.