I thought I’d look through some other posts by the above mentioned Blogger.
In case you don’t want to risk damaging anything, I’ll summarise.
How can I carry on? How did I not see that this proves that evolution is false? My life is ov… Hang on! Sorry, say again? It doesn’t do what? It doesn’t explain things that it didn’t try to? By the same logic, maybe I should get rid of my car because of it’s lack of ability to microwave pigeons?
If overwhelming evidence and support for evolution proves it as fact, someone should be able to supply peer-reviewed, experimental data for the following (after all, evolution can’t begin, let alone complete, unless all four are true). We’ll give a tongue-in-cheek summary of the theory of beginnings and evolution, and then in parentheses give the scientific principle requiring experimental data.
First there was nothing (matter comes from nothing).
And then it exploded (explosions produce order. Mythbusters would have fun with this one).
From the goo, to the zoo (abiogenesis — life comes from non-life. Another one for Mythbusters).
To you (new species evolve from mutations).
1.First there was nothing (matter comes from nothing).
2.And then it exploded (explosions produce order. Mythbusters would have fun with this one).
3.From the goo, to the zoo (abiogenesis — life comes from non-life. Another one for Mythbusters).
4.To you (new species evolve from mutations).
Woo! We got there! Yep! That’s evolution. The others – nope! And wow! the in-depth scientific proof of evolution is so overwhelming now, with fossils, DNA analysis, the distribution of similar life, and even lab work (for example Lenski (try https://thebobdelusion.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/intelligent-design-equates-kitten-growth-to-evolution/ for a primer on how an ID proponent tried to discredit his amazing work). Evolution has been proved again, and again, and again. Once presented with the facts (which are easily available online if you bother to look!) I think that it would be difficult for any rational person to disagree.
However the points 1 to 3 raised are more interesting although science is making inroads into these as well. There’s a great video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo) which is worth spending an hour watching.
Your whole concept that evolution has no foundation because of the questions still remaining in points 1 to 3 makes no sense whatsoever, especially as evolution has never tried to answer these points! It has the same validity as me saying that the bible is false because you don’t (nor indeed do I) understand the chemistry needed to formulate the ink it is printed with.
If you are going to attack evolution as a non-scientific theory, then do so using science, but to set up an elaborate, (and to be honest I think deliberate) straw-man in order to do it is (to me anyhow) both offensive and humorous.
Maybe I’m being to harsh, and it is indeed the fact that you don’t understand what the scientific theory of evolution is actually about – in which case I apologise, and hope that you now use some of these thoughts to explore evolution in more depth. It is beautiful, it is amazing. It’s a fact!