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theres scanning tunneling too which just measure electric current as well
cant be arsed to explain
Can't he just claim electrons don't exist? Wouldn't be the first thing. Let him be happy. Then deny we exist, and that the government exists, and that countries exist.
I think, therefore I do not exist?!
lets no forget that to an extent electrons arent a physical object but a mathematical standing wave in going around an atom, whilst at the same time having an intrinsic angular momentum
Yes, but there is little doubt they exist is some context.
I also think this debate has, as always, gone off topic with amazing skill.
Happy Christmas, ye lot.
explanation being that if such evolutionary advances were made so quickly, there wouldnt be time for the strong to become strong before they died out
Of course there's not going to be genetic mutations in our lifetime. To think that there would be is to misunderstand evolutionary theory. It works over billions of years.
What are the holes in evolutionary theory?? Just stating that does not make that statement true you need examples...
Genetic mutation does happen, a quick google and i find a couple of sites which give examples... Remember that for complex species which take a long time to reproduce and reprdouce slowly it takes time for any differences to mount up. bacteria which develop immunities to antibolictics is due to natural selection.
Immunity and Arms Race
The fact that the eye has never evolved throughout time.
When Darwin first proposed his theory of evolution he did admit that the development of the eye is difficult to explain... Though biologists have proposed theories which explain how the eye could develop...
Evolution of the Eye
Evolution as a theory can be observed and can be proven by experiments and studies. It is not complete but then most scientific theory humanity has developed does not give the complete picture, we still have pieces missing from the jigsaw puzzle (possibly some corners and a bit of the sky).
what makes me angry is not only is this fact overly true, they ram the christian outlook down your throat.
I'm not Christian, i haven't been brought up in a christian household, but i do understand the view point because living in a christian country the majority of my life you do understand it somewhat.
but RE lessons are almost conversion lessons, i really feel that religion lessons should be kept out of schools. philosophy lessons of a multi-faith basis and a non faith basis. i fed up of having stuff i don't believe rammed down my neck.
if parents want their kids to learn about their faith then they should send them a sunday school or teach them at home.
the intelligent design concept doesn't explain how the 'designer' changed it though does it, or when it happened?
and as marv pointed, jst because we dont know the whole picture, doesn't mean what we have so far in terms of understanding is completly useless
theres like 1 preditced particle we haven't observed yet from the 3 fermion types of the fundamental particles, and we're unsure if a neutrino has neglibable mass or no mass, though things are pointing towards negliable mass -the neotrino was only introduced to balance the mass, and was then detected 10-20 years later, we're also unsure why there is only 3 types. this doesn't mean theres a big flaw in the fundamental particle theory
http://www.pheno.info/hottopics/neutrinoshavemass/
and the darwinian survival of the fittest obviously wouldnt apply in some situations, simply because some species enter into symbiotic relationships etc as is what is expected to have happened with us having mitochondria
ps - wheresmyplacebo
Things that work stop evolving until there is a change in the environment to spur it on. Evolution could happen very quickly in extreme conditions, then calm down again.
Sharks don't evolve. Crocodiles have been the same for christ knows how long. And so forth. Why? No pressure to change from anywhere.
Humans have apparently stopped evolving, and now their "culture" does instead. Meme theory. Christianity was a "good" theory when people were killing each other at random and praying to rocks while covered in elephant dung. Now it's a bag of shite, and is dying out, going extinct.
The biggest hole in evolutionary theory is that there is no definite chance that a new, better trait will be passed on. It's a 50/50 crap-shoot. If it is passed on, then there's still a 50/50 chance that it will be passed on with some weaker traits that negate it. Also, it's then got a 50/50 chance of being passed on again next generation.
So, without some guiding force picking and choosing what's hot and what's not, even the most beneficial mutations could never proliferate. There is a guiding force though - DNA. DNA chooses what to use and to lose, it decides, it designs.
There is hardly any evidence of early humans full stop. The total number of bones so far found would fit in the back of a transit if you weren't too fussy how you stacked them. Land animals in general aren't ever going to be made into fossils, the fossil record in something daft like 99.8% creatures who spent most of their time in water.
There's plenty of evidence for aquatic ones.