• Haagel@lemmings.world
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    7 months ago

    We need a few more heroes and a lot more peas to solve some of these other problems:

    Horizontal Gene Transfer upsets the conceptual “tree of life”, i.e. if genetics are not exclusively hereditary then it is impossible to determine a last universal common ancestor (LUCA).

    Lack of a viable mechanism for producing the complex and specific information required to render the genetic code functional.

    Failure of the fossil record to find support for Darwinian evolution (punctuated equilibrium, Cambrian explosion, etc).

    Rampant examples of convergent evolution indicate extreme improbability.

    Abiogenesis.

    Biogeographical distribution irregularities. 

    Inaccurate predictions regarding so-called “junk DNA”, vestigial organs and endogenous retroviruses (ERV).

    Epigenetics cannot be reduced to a mechanism, certainly not natural selection.

    “Phenotypic Plasticity” - the correlation between genotypes and phenotypes are no longer 1:1.

    Beneficial mutations are impossibly rare. In almost all cases, mutations are degenerative, as demonstrated by Richard Lenski’s bacteria experiment and Molly Burke’s fruit fly experiment - both published in Nature.

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      7 months ago

      Missing link fallacy. We have much, much more evidence for evolution than we do for creation, but because we don’t have all the evidence, you choose to reject all of it in favour of theories that have even less evidence behind them.

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        Strawman fallacy. I’m not rejecting all of it in favor of creation. I’m citing a significant list of problems with the theory.

        I’ve got another list of philosophical problems, if you’re interested. Not that the sciences give a damn about philosophy or epistemology anymore…