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Small extrapolation is cool.

Paradigm shifts are not cults dying. Science is like soap, it is self-cleaning.

Because you say so? Labs are working on this. If they simulate 1- the emergence of the building blocks of life via plausible primordial earth conditions and 2- eventual self assembly of protocells, will you accept at least the possibility that abiogenesis occurred? Sure you can. Inference...

This is just not true. Most mutations are neutral and they are common. Each human has 70 to 200 or so of them. Two percent could be harmful, ten percent helpful. Mutations add to the richness of variability, Information is added when environmental factors interact with them and effect the...

Trump actually though American forces had entered Ukraine.

Why? I think it would be likely that abiogenesis having had the conditions needed to occur might well have happened more than once in similar but slightly different ways. Many eventually went extinct. LUCA succeeded. I would wager more creationists actually know they are lying given their...

Go back to START. Everything I send to YOU turns to GOO. Do Better.

Yes. That is what we are trying to determine. Think of ways to prove or disprove your hypothesis, But, by all means do not confuse the hypothesis with the conclusion. The fact that life is here is evidence of either hypothesis -- so it is not evidence that differentiates the two. It is weak...

Sure -- except that is exactly what a hypothesis is. Looking at independent variables, under the investigator's control, and dependent variables that are free to vary and are results we hope to predict based on our hypothesis ISOLATES the relationship we are examining from the examiners's...

LOL. The existence of life is great evidence that there must have been a designer, but terrible to refute the statement there is no evidence whatsoever of abiogenesis? What an ultra maroon!

Typical Divider Tactic. Require seeing something under laboratory conditions. Then criticize the artificial conditions. Then equate the researcher with a designer, and discount the whole thing. A nasty shell game. Divider cannot see the elegance in converging lines of inquiry. 1) Discover...

Oh, so you prefer the land puddles that are constantly drying out and filling again as the cradle of life?

Actually every fossil is a transitional member, but fossils only survive in particular places and for particular times due to environmental conditions not because of the living creature the fossils are based on.

They are not easy to find. Transitional individuals are often less numerous than the more successful stabilized version. Even so, we are finding more and more evidence of intermediate phases.

Of course its relevant. Evolution is tinkering with structures you already got with small tweaks often finding an entirely new purpose. How so? Did God create kinds to be like transformers? More than meets the eye? This hippo can become a dolphin by design?

When formulating hypotheses, imagination is invaluable. You are one to talk. You advocate using imagination in the conclusions and injecting imagination into data. You know how the term theory is more like theorem in science, yet you troll with the casual definition. Why? Do you hope readers...

THAT is the discrete STEP and is an unusual scenario we sometimes see with plants. Think of it like this: there are changes in the frequency of gene combinations across generations. The old version survives with the new but the new is somewhat more successful and all are still the same...

Seems simply a matter of semantics.

Either way is fine by me.

Speciation is often a gradualistic process rather than a discretely stepwise one. Asking when one species becomes another is sort of like asking when a color is blue, purple, or red.