1868- ALIEN INVASION
Last night I was watching a talk
given by the Ohio congressman- Dennis Kucinich.
Dennis is known as a big Lib- he
has been the butt of jokes for years- he once saw a UFO- and that pretty much
put the nail in the coffin.
But- to be fair- the guy is
smart.
Now- I’m not saying I believe
everything he says [accept of course about the alien ship] but during the talk
he was asked a question.
And he used an example from Evolutionary
Biology.
He said- in so many words
‘scientists tell us that there is this thing called Punctuated Equilibrium’ and
he used this idea to make a political point.
Now- as I heard Dennis- I thought
‘geez- if I get into this in the morning [now] it will take the whole post’.
So let’s see how far we can go.
I laughed somewhat over the example.
Why?
Evolutionary Biology has made
great strides- and had setbacks ever since the idea was popularized by Charles
Darwin in the 19th century.
Now- Charlie was not the first
person to espouse the idea.
In fact- there was another famous
scientist at the time- who some believe Darwin ‘stole’ the idea from him [much
like the debate with Einstein- the famous Mathematician- Max Plank- at one
point took part of the original idea of Einstein and almost became the famous
one].
So- what Darwin is famous for is
coming up with the theory of Evolution [what we call Macro Evolution- that all
species came from a common ancestor- one spontaneous living cell that popped
into existence from nothing- Charlie did not teach this by the way- not fully-
but the modern theory has gone there].
Okay- it would take too much space
to explain all the ins and outs.
But the debate that has raged for
the past 150 years has been whether or not this ever really happened.
That is- have all species
actually come from a common life.
The strong evolutionist insists
[or did insist] yes.
Those who questioned the theory
[not just Christians or Theists- but there are many in the scientific community
who have expressed real doubt- these men are not believers- but it’s virtually
impossible for their voices to be heard because when you question some of the
huge problems with the theory your usually tagged as a right wing nut].
So- after 150 years- the evidence
that they thought would be there- is simply not there.
How so?
After many years of discovering
fossils- and trying to see if there is a pattern of things actually evolving
over millions of years- the evidence does not show this.
Huh?
You heard me- the evidence shows
something quite different.
It shows us that new species came
into existence at set points in history.
That is- we might find a certain
species living for so long- and Walla- seemingly overnight- a new one pops up.
There is absolutely no regular
pattern of what you would call transitional species- it’s simply not there.
Okay- if this were the only
Monkey Wrench [pun intended] then that wouldn’t be so bad.
But as science has advanced- we
have also been trying- desperately- to get some type of species- anything- to
actually become something else.
The way we [science] attempts
this is thru the experimentation with fruit flies.
In the lab they have been trying
to simply get a fruit fly to become another thing [they breed and reproduce
fast- so that’s why they use them].
After many dollars and years spent
trying this- they can’t get this to happen.
There are many more reasons I could
give- but after things like this kept popping up- some in the field- leading Evolutionary
scientists- Gould [MIT]- one of the daughters from the famed Leaky family-
etc.- starting having real doubts.
Now- these doubts were not based
on religion- but science.
The data showed that there seems
to be this huge wall between species- that is it’s not as easy as Darwin first thought.
As a matter of fact- the science
showed that it is virtually impossible for one thing to become another thing
[as far as we can tell right now].
So- the normal thing you would do
[should do] at this point is to say ‘maybe we got it wrong- maybe we need to
look in another direction’.
And Walla- Punctuated
Equilibrium.
Yes- as Dennis said- scientists
have said that this is the idea that instead of things slowly evolving over
millions/hundreds of thousands of years- they simply changed overnight.
Now- this in reality would be
saying ‘the other side- those who questioned Evolution- are right’.
Because the 2 major competing
theories are Evolution [things changed slowly over millions of years into new
species].
Creation- things came onto the
scene at once [or set times].
The Punctuated Equilibrium idea
is simply a fancy way of saying the evidence points to the creationist as being
right.
But instead of coming right out
and saying it like that- instead the theory sounds like it is a result of
Evolutionary biology.
I have heard this stated over the
years- that indeed Evolution has made this new discovery possible.
Now- I’m not a total rejecter of
the entire theory.
I have said in the past that
there is no doubt that evolution [natural selection] does take place within the
known species [called Micro Evolution].
But there is lots of evidence
that seems to say Evolution does not take place on the bigger scale- species changing
into another species over long periods of time.
[Darwin thought that whales
changed into cows over many years- he thought that the Black aborigine tribes
were proof that Evolution was true- he said these Black races were less
advanced along the scale. And the famous ‘Monkey Trial’ here in the U.S.
[Tenn.] made it look like the Christians were idiots. Many are not aware that the Evolutionary book
that Scopes was accused of teaching Evolution from was actually a racist book
that the KKK endorsed. The book [by
George Hunter] had a scale of the most advanced races- and the least advanced-
of course at the top were Whites- the bottom were Blacks. Yet the media made it sound like the more
noble side was indeed those who backed using the book in public schools].
But the entire argument shows you
how people’s bias affects the end result.
In reality- for anyone to say
that Evolutionary science has been responsible for the great breakthrough- known
as Punctuated Equilibrium- well it’s ridiculous.
Because Punctuated Equilibrium is
simply saying that those who reject the theory that species change into new
species over long periods of time- they are right.
So what you see is a manipulation
of the argument- to make it look like the ‘losing side’ is actually responsible
for this discovery.
But in reality the other side was right all
along.
See- I knew this would take the whole
post- thank Kucinich for it.
O- by the way- he does have a backup
plan.
He can always say the aliens did
it.
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