Jim Halpert Explains

Fun fact: an anomaly in nature doesn’t mean it will be the norm in humanity. Anacondas give birth to live young, but no other reptile does. The platypus is a mammal that lays eggs but no other mammals do. Humans are not capable of male pregnancy.

Unless you were able to see evolution actually in progress, as in see a lizard morph into a bird, or repeat the process in a laboratory, your statement is as unscientific as mine.

Unless you can see Gods in the sky creating, smoting, having discussions with people through burning bushes and can replicate that process in the lab... See how this works?

You see evolution in progress all the time, all around you. Common lizards are the Eurasian ones I mentioned earlier that give live births in colder climes while still laying eggs where it's warmer. There's two species of skinks that do both as well, one in Australia apparently showing the beginnings of supplying nutrients, a possible precursor of placentas.

20% of reptiles give live births, not just your one anaconda.

There are three species of steamer ducks that can't fly at all. A fourth one, the flying steamer duck, can fly but doesn't do much of it. It can be found in the Falkland Islands (as well as the South American mainland) along with the Falkland steamer duck, which is flightless. They are genetically indistinguishable, so may very well be the same species (their populations are geographically separated). Regardless, flying steamers are evolving towards flightlessness like the other species already have.

In the 1980s, anole lizards were set loose on various tiny unpopulated islands in the Bahamas to study population pressures on limited areas. A decade later, differences in morphology were notable. On more windswept isles, they had developed shorter limbs, the easier to cling with lest they get blown out to sea. On less windier Islands, they had longer legs. This is in just a decade.

We see similar patterns with flying dragon lizards in the Philippines, only extending back far longer. Those on windier islands had shorter legs, and shorter gliding ribs, while those less windier places had longer legs and longer ribs.

So atoms don't exist? (Going by the logic of "I can't see it so, therefore, it doesn't happen".)

Also, we CAN see evolution in progress; Bacteria resisting antibiotics, insects becoming immune to pesticides, and the beaks of Galapagos finches adapting to different foods.

Also, evolution takes a very long time. If you have a good enough attention span, maybe you can watch it happen.

Nice straw man of atoms — we have technology that has made them to be visible.

And yet your god remains completely invisible to all of our senses.

We've known about the existence of atoms for longer than we've been able to actually see them.

Anyway, nice job ignoring the bottom 2/3 of my reply. You know, the part where I responded to your claim?

And yet God prophesied of you in II Peter 3:3.

All you described is adaption, which our Creator endowed us and animals with. If I do hard work outs, my muscles grow and get stronger. It's NOT evolution

No, it's also evolution because these things are being passed down.

Being healthy can help your child be healthier, but it's not comparable to the things previously mentioned.

No. The information to make adaptions like getting stronger and healthier is already in our genes. It's not newly created information- it's just the result of how our bodies use the information already encoded within us. It doesn't cause us to change into a different creature.

Adaptation is usually happening within one organism's lifetime. Evolution will continue even after that organism has died (that's why bacteria immune to antibiotics will create more with the same resistance)

Let me know when one of these bacteria produces something other than another of the same bacteria.

That is why they do a lot of genetic research with Fruit flies, they have a exceptionally high reproductive rate that they can observe mutation and genetic evolution take place.

And they have made fruit flies with curled wings, no wings, weak eyes or blind, dark bodies so predators can see them better — but they’ve never found either a beneficial mutation, or a mutation to anything but a fruit fly.

Research has shown that fruit flies can evolve rapidly in response to environmental changes, with studies documenting significant genetic changes and adaptations occurring within just a few weeks. For example, a controlled experiment revealed that 60% of the flies' genomes changed over four months, demonstrating swift evolutionary processes in real-time.

The scientific fact of entropy says evolution is a fantasy.

If you want to regurgitate things your Sunday school teacher told you today, you should at least learn what they mean.

Entropy is an increase of randomness in a closed system.
Evolution is an increase in complexity.

Maybe at this point, the science got too difficult for you and you chose to leave it at that and make false claims to support your religious fantasies.

Earth is generally considered a closed system (most matter), but it's still very open to energy from the sun. When the energy from the sun enters and leaves Earth, it's basically an open system in terms of energy.

Also, land, water, and atmosphere are separate but capable of exchanging with one another. This means there are also several open systems within Earth that exchange matter and energy.

So, what does this mean? Earth isn't as much of a closed system as you think it is, evolution is easily capable of occurring (while also increasing in complexity), and creationism has no place in science.

See the second law of thermodynamics.

Again, evolution is still occurring within an open system (Earth)

Just because you find something bigger doesn't mean it cancels out. (See my example of land, water, and atmosphere within Earth)

Since gender isn’t a spectrum, I’d go with the opposite.

You'd choose to follow a religion where the god condones rape, murder, child sacrifice, and genocide?

Does God have a plan you can't see?

Ah yes, condoning horrible things for "a better good". Your god sounds like a great guy. /s

I wonder what your god's plan is for the 27-30 people who are murdered each day in the US.

Your claims are from texts out of context and thus a pretext of proof text

Oh really?

Name the ones you want further context on.

Let’s start with God commanding rape when the Bible says in Deiteronomy 22:5 that tape is punishable by death.

How about commanding genocide when II Peter 3:9 says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Child sacrifices: Jeremiah 17:31 “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; WHICH I COMMANDED THEM NOT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY HEART.

I prefer to stay neutral in discussions like these merely to avoid creating excess strife

I would side with both, but siding with neither is easier

Siding with neither will anger christians but most trans people won't care as long as you don't go out of your way to be a rude person.

I've met more decent christians than you would think

Sure, there are plenty of nice christians, but they're usually the surface-level types who barely understand the religion. Once they dig further into the bible and still follow everything it stands for after having an understanding of it, they aren't good people.

It's funny how studying the bible MORE made me rethink it.

Christianity is an iceberg that gets more f**ked up as you learn more about it.

yea, but the ones who don't force the religion are good people

Lol, the fact that this comment got hidden just proves how ignorant you are.

I said you can worship whoever tf you want as long as you aren't forcing it on others and it's somehow making you guys mad.

Is forcing people (even if it means killing millions (crusades)) to follow your religion that deeply embedded into your minds? The brainwashing goes further than I imagined.