@pauluc: No-one is contesting that mutation occur that most of …

Comment on Dr. John Sanford Lectures on Inevitable Genomic Deterioration by Sean Pitman.

@pauluc:

No-one is contesting that mutation occur that most of these are not beneficial or that there are around 100 per generation. What is contested is that death is the only mechanisms for removal and that they are accumulating at a lethal rate.

You’re the one telling me that natural selection is what solves the detrimental mutation problem. How do you think natural selection works? – if not via the premature death of individuals within a population?

But hey, I’m open to suggestions. How are detrimental mutations removed from a gene pool without death being involved? You keep acting like there is some other mechanism, but you aren’t very keen on letting us know what this mechanism might be. Do you have any idea at all?

If you don’t really know the mechanism of how detrimental mutations can be removed from slowly reproducing gene pools faster than they are entering it, upon what is your opinion based? Certainly not any kind of testable scientific theory – or am I completely off base here? You just know that Sanford must somehow be wrong because your interpretation of the fossil record must be correct – right?

Talk about letting one’s personal philosophies and pre-established paradigms affect one’s views of “science”…

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com

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@Ken:

Aside from the fact that science cannot definitively prove any theory, yes, a form of historical science can be used to test and evaluate Biblical prophecies. You have to know a lot about history though. You can’t simply read Daniel and Revelation and hope to understand what you’re reading unless you have detailed knowledge of the historical events being discussed.

I recommend you start with the “70 weeks” prophecy starting with Daniel 9:24. This prophecy precisely predicts the First Coming of Jesus as well as his death to the day.

Sean Pitman
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@-Shining:

I’ve been doing this a long time (almost 20 years now) and I can tell you that, as far as I know, no one has misunderstood my position as a young life creationist who also recognizes limited forms of Darwinian evolution…

This isn’t like accepting a little bit of Nazism. The Darwinian mechanism is given its name because Darwin really was the first to popularize it in published literature. Therefore, he deserves to have his name attached to the mechanism of RM/NS.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


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@-Shining:

I’ve only been expaining why I say things the way I say them. I believe it is best to at least try to start off a discussion on as much common ground as is possible with those on the opposing side in a discussion… to openly admit those points, from the opposing side, that are actually valid.

As I see it, there is simply no advantage in arguing that Darwinian evolution is completely wrong – that I believe in no form of Darwinism. It’s just not true for one thing and admitting those things that the Darwinian mechanism can produce only adds to the credibility of the creationist position – in my opinion.

Sean Pitman
www.DeteectingDesign.com


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