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Old 05-05-2013, 12:23 AM
 
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There's also genetic evidence. One element of which is that it is so improbable that you'd have the same random mutations showing up in a manner consistent with additionally well evidenced evolutionary lineages, again and again for numbers of species, that you'd basically have to assume trickery by some malevolent demiurge if you didn't just go with, "Yeah, evolution is now even more extremely well evidenced."
Again....more assumptions made regarding mutations and new genetic lines. But hey....whatever.
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:24 AM
 
Location: SE Mass
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Again....more assumptions made regarding mutations and new genetic lines. But hey....whatever.
I get the impression you aren't actually referring to anything when you say that.
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:25 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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I get the impression you aren't actually referring to anything when you say that.
Vizio is referring to what you - SOLDIER of FORTRAN - said above.
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:26 AM
 
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I get the impression you aren't actually referring to anything when you say that.
You realize one way of "dating" a species is to count the number of years it would take for said species to "mutate"....assuming a rate of mutation, right?
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:31 AM
 
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You realize one way of "dating" a species is to count the number of years it would take for said species to "mutate"....assuming a rate of mutation, right?
Alluding to molecular clocks as a counter-argument doesn't inspire confidence

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Evolution is sufficiently well evidenced that I accept it as true. That's my position. "Science basically deals with probabilities" sounds like what you're teasing at, with a subtext of "only deals with probabilities," therefore, [some arbitrary position]
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:33 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Not necessarily. Psychology is a science.
Psychology is my major and believe me when I say not all Psychology is science... sorry. Psychology, at best, is a soft science and even then most of it is borderline. Psychology does not equal psychoanalysis by the way.
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:37 AM
 
Location: SE Mass
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Psychology is my major and believe me when I say not all Psychology is science... sorry. Psychology, at best, is a soft science and even then most of it is borderline. Psychology does not equal psychoanalysis by the way.
Do you wish you were around for the crazy days of orgone chambers and poor ethical controls?
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:38 AM
 
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Evolution is sufficiently well evidenced that I accept it as true.]
Then show the evidence.

Saying that is "well evidenced" doesn't make it valid.
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:42 AM
 
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Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 05-05-2013, 12:57 AM
 
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Wikipedia is not a valid source.
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