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David Hare-Scott
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 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Anybody recognize this about feathers? |
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I recently was given a copy of "Signs of the Times" from the Seventh Day
Adventists. One article advises us to "try logic" and that "faith isn't meant
to be senseless" and then brings out a series of standard creationist
arguments about why Genesis is literally true. I have seen all of them before
except one.
The way that feathers have tiny hooks that allow them to be linked or unlinked
at will by birds is descibed. We are then told that "a textbook of the 1960s"
postulates that it would take 10^19 years for such complexity to evolve.
I am familiar with some arguments that arrive at absurd estimates of
probability for evolutionary events using unreal or wrong assumptions. Can
anybody locate this particular one for me?
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David Hare-Scott
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Anybody recognize this about feathers? |
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"Augray" <augray@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:25of44l9ns5ojqtcdujp11bhr78lmafttq@4ax.com...
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:11:21 +1000, "David Hare-Scott"
compost@rotting.com> wrote in <g25bki$tbq$1@aioe.org> :
I recently was given a copy of "Signs of the Times" from the Seventh Day
Adventists. One article advises us to "try logic" and that "faith isn't
meant
to be senseless" and then brings out a series of standard creationist
arguments about why Genesis is literally true. I have seen all of them
before
except one.
The way that feathers have tiny hooks that allow them to be linked or
unlinked
at will by birds is descibed. We are then told that "a textbook of the
1960s"
postulates that it would take 10^19 years for such complexity to evolve.
I am familiar with some arguments that arrive at absurd estimates of
probability for evolutionary events using unreal or wrong assumptions. Can
anybody locate this particular one for me?
Which issue of "Signs of the Times" was this in?
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