macroevolution

Many creationists try to challenge the Theory of Evolution by stating no "macro-evolution" has ever been observed. I use the following recent post as an example: Of course, scientists rightfully roll their eyes at such ill-informed requests. But, for the sake of argument let us assume that...

Artificial Life By Intelligent Design! by Babu G. Ranganathan (B.A. theology/biology)* Recent news reports suggest that scientists may be close to creating artificial (synthetic) life. None of this is happening by chance but by intelligent design and planning. Why, then, will many not give...

A good, simple argument to use against ITers is this: If an intelligence designed humanity, why are our immune systems so darn bad? Sharks, in comparison, have an AMAZING immune system - last I heard (through the discovery channel) we were looking into it to try and figure out why sharks don't...

I'd like to know more about this. Briefly, what does he propose? I've read a few of his books, and I find him immensely clever. Edit to list source: This thread was split from: http://206.225.95.123/forumlive/showthread.php?t=50276 And the source was BillHoyt.

Hi all, Here's something that occurred to me that other day, which I haven't seen raised on talkorigins or similar sites. According to the Intelligent Design crowd, what is it that prevents macro-evolution? I remember reading a very important statement about evolution - it was probably in a...

*Can* anyone? Let's forget the monkey/ape to human argument for a moment. I think it might be easier to try to comprehend evolution by looking at the bird. Why? Because scientists are pretty sure that feathers developed on a dinausauer that resembled both bird and dinosauer. Whether it could fly...