I put the replies here because they didn't have as much to do with the BC/AD-BCE/CE stuff.
Where did you find this? The cross is a simple shape, so it's easy to come up with independently of Jesus. The power poles are cross shaped for a practical reason; the vertical part keeps the wires above the ground and the horiztional parts allow the vertical pole to support multiple wires. The proporations are also different. Power poles are taller compared to their horizontal parts than the crucifiction crosses were.
I found this. Intermediate stage eyes are not useless. There are actually creatures around now that have such eyes. I saw some of that in middle school biology.
Here, it shows that it won't take very long in the history of life for eyes to evolve. With concepts from population genetics for how fast favorable genes can spread through a population, they say that it can take only 350 thousand generations for familar looking eyes to evolve. If a generation was a year, it would take less than a million years, so it's possible for it to happen more than once.
Yeah, there was time, animal life had been around for at least 600 million years, more than half a billion years.
Here's some information about the genetics of how lens could have came around.
An example of a supposely irreducibly complex process that had evolved in the 20th century is the process that the bacteria Sphingomonas chlorophenolica (aka Sphingobium chlorophenolicum) uses to break down and eat pentachlorophenol (PCP). PCP is a very toxic compound used as a wood preservative beginning in the 1930s. It is not a natural compound. The bacteria was not seen before then. It makes sense that the first instances of new species we see are the ones that reproduce the fastest, bacterica. They have many generations during one of our generations.
The process the bacterica uses is supposely irreducibly complex because it requires three enzymes to do. The new species of bacterica evolved from other ones that use only the first and third enzymes to eat other kinds of chlorophenols that do appear in nature and are less toxic. The new species makes the second enzyme all the time, not only when it's needed. It looks like a mutation that happened sometime in the early 20th century made some bacterica make that enzyme all the time and therefore be better able to deal with the PCP by breaking it down.
If that bacterica was designed, it would not be wasteful by making that enzyme all the time. Doing that is no good because all three enzymes are needed in the process of breaking down PCP and the other two are made only when needed. So, it looks like a recent evolution that haven't yet been optimized.
I got this from this page.
It hurts because the baby's head has to go through the pelvis. Our heads are really big. Does it mean that our heads only became big after sin began or does it mean that Eve had a different anatomy that the god changed? Or maybe that story is a way ancient people explained why it hurt to give birth. How could one differentiate between those? The first two ideas depends on a god existing and the last one only depends on the existence of the people who told those stories.
pek1 said:
Where did you find this? The cross is a simple shape, so it's easy to come up with independently of Jesus. The power poles are cross shaped for a practical reason; the vertical part keeps the wires above the ground and the horiztional parts allow the vertical pole to support multiple wires. The proporations are also different. Power poles are taller compared to their horizontal parts than the crucifiction crosses were.
I found this. Intermediate stage eyes are not useless. There are actually creatures around now that have such eyes. I saw some of that in middle school biology.
Here, it shows that it won't take very long in the history of life for eyes to evolve. With concepts from population genetics for how fast favorable genes can spread through a population, they say that it can take only 350 thousand generations for familar looking eyes to evolve. If a generation was a year, it would take less than a million years, so it's possible for it to happen more than once.
Yeah, there was time, animal life had been around for at least 600 million years, more than half a billion years.
Here's some information about the genetics of how lens could have came around.
An example of a supposely irreducibly complex process that had evolved in the 20th century is the process that the bacteria Sphingomonas chlorophenolica (aka Sphingobium chlorophenolicum) uses to break down and eat pentachlorophenol (PCP). PCP is a very toxic compound used as a wood preservative beginning in the 1930s. It is not a natural compound. The bacteria was not seen before then. It makes sense that the first instances of new species we see are the ones that reproduce the fastest, bacterica. They have many generations during one of our generations.
The process the bacterica uses is supposely irreducibly complex because it requires three enzymes to do. The new species of bacterica evolved from other ones that use only the first and third enzymes to eat other kinds of chlorophenols that do appear in nature and are less toxic. The new species makes the second enzyme all the time, not only when it's needed. It looks like a mutation that happened sometime in the early 20th century made some bacterica make that enzyme all the time and therefore be better able to deal with the PCP by breaking it down.
If that bacterica was designed, it would not be wasteful by making that enzyme all the time. Doing that is no good because all three enzymes are needed in the process of breaking down PCP and the other two are made only when needed. So, it looks like a recent evolution that haven't yet been optimized.
I got this from this page.
It hurts because the baby's head has to go through the pelvis. Our heads are really big. Does it mean that our heads only became big after sin began or does it mean that Eve had a different anatomy that the god changed? Or maybe that story is a way ancient people explained why it hurt to give birth. How could one differentiate between those? The first two ideas depends on a god existing and the last one only depends on the existence of the people who told those stories.
