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Difficult to keep track of all the different standards and just who they are applied to.

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nuclear FUCKING WEAPONS.

You have been temp-banned for two weeks for an ad hominem attack against @UsesProzac in Sift Lounge. Specifically: "you'd think only fat ugly girls like @UsesProzac would sit inside trolling video sites all day"

As you've been warned (and possibly temp-banned?) for the same offense previously (by @dag: http://videosift.com/member/GenjiKilpatrick?loadcomm=1#comment-1319402), you may be on the verge of a permanent ban.

We should all be on guard at all times.
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So you're including yourself in that group, yes?

Or are you too hipster for that? "I was counter-culture before counter-culture was a culture."

>> ^gorillaman:

I hope we all understand that you can nod your head along to the sentiments in this video and still be a part of the problem.

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>> ^siftbot:

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congrats meatbag!

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Yeah, but wait till it sifts.
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downvote to the bottoms of the interwebs

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It doesn't follow, though. The evidence that proves micro-evolution does not prove universal common descent. The evidence for micro-evolution would be evidence for macro-evolution if it could also prove UCD. It is one thing to say species change, or even that they can change into other species. It is quite a different thing to say that all species evolved from a common ancestor. That goes far beyond what you can prove scientifically.

This also is not about drawing an imaginary line about how much change can occur; it has to do with the amount of information in the genome. For bacteria to man evolution, a significant amount of information has to be added to the genome. The information in the bacteria genome, no matter how you shuffle it around, will never produce anything more significantly complex than itself. So then the question is, how does this information get added to the genome? Many people at this point will say "mutations!", but the problem with that is, we have never seen a mutation give rise to an increase in functional complexity. If they do, they are so compartively rare as to completely invalidate evolution as a theory. There simply wouldn't be enough time to account for the millions of changes required.


As the main mechanism for adding information into the genome, you would think that there would be clear evidence to support its actually happening..but you would be wrong:



So these are a few reasons why I do not buy into the evolutionary paradigm. The way it is presented to the public is as a proven fact, but when you start analysing the data and not just listening to the conclusions, you find a giant mess with no clear answers. You also find a chorus of true believers who just know its true and interpret all of the data through the conclusion. They see everything through those glasses and thus that is the way everything looks to them.
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How do you reconcile accepting the science that substantiates micro-evolution.. but disregarding the SAME SCIENCE that substantiates macro-evolution.

It's sorta like if I said: "I accept the evidence for the divinity of Jesus. But I refuse to accept that Yahweh exists"

If it follows that: Divinty of Jesus = Divinity of Yahweh.

Then it must follow that: Evidence of Micro-evolution = Evidence of Macro-evolution.

How do you reconcile this without talking in circles?

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