tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post493771730516774125..comments2023-10-26T07:19:41.446-05:00Comments on Science Avenger: Marvin Olasky's not-so-desperate AtheistsScienceAvengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-92173625473909958312007-08-28T11:39:00.000-05:002007-08-28T11:39:00.000-05:00Well, the whole concept of "kind" is nonsense anyw...Well, the whole concept of "kind" is nonsense anyway. It's the pseudoscientific version of "I know it when I see it". It is especially amusing to note how they claim kinds are discrete, say humans vs apes, and yet they can't agree among themselves as to which kind our fossil ancestors belong.ScienceAvengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-86031593308303822932007-08-27T09:54:00.000-05:002007-08-27T09:54:00.000-05:00... and what's also frustrating, in a more technic...... and what's also frustrating, in a more technical sense, is the misunderstanding or confusion between "genetic variance" and structural difference. Creationists play fast and loose with defining animals using the term "kinds", and then complain that evolution "doesn't happen" because animals still look the same, without realizing that, in fact, the genetic change, which may not change the structure of the animal, is huge ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-14528907545675566862007-08-24T20:28:00.000-05:002007-08-24T20:28:00.000-05:00Thank you for the kind words, and the link. It ma...Thank you for the kind words, and the link. It makes me wish even more that I had used spell-check that day.<BR/><BR/>It never ceases to amaze me how consistent Christian writers are in trotting out all these myths about atheists. That is one of the main reasons it is so important for atheists to stand publicly and be counted - not to persuade, but to counter, in the flesh, all the lies told about us.ScienceAvengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-8024458590123569782007-08-24T15:27:00.000-05:002007-08-24T15:27:00.000-05:00Here Here, I'm going to link to this in my blog if...Here Here, I'm going to link to this in my blog if that's ok with you ... I hope it is, because, as it were, I already linked to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com