Originally Posted by Thunderstick
Originally Posted by Tarquin
"The Darwinian theory of evolution is the phlogiston of our day, festooned with a myriad and growing number of patches. Evolution is slow and gradual, except when it’s fast. It is dynamic and creates huge changes over time, except when it keeps everything the same for millions of years. It explains both extreme complexity and elegant simplicity. It tells us how birds learned to fly and how some lost that ability. Evolution made cheetahs fast and turtles slow. Some creatures it made big and others small; some gloriously beautiful, and some boringly grey. It forced fish to walk and walking animals to return to the sea. It diverges except when it converges; it produces exquisitely fine-tuned designs except when it produces junk. Evolution is random and without direction except when it moves toward a target. Life under evolution is a cruel battlefield except when it demonstrates altruism. Evolution explains virtues and vice, love and hate, religion and atheism. And it does all this with a growing number of ancillary hypotheses. Modern evolutionary theory is the Rube Goldberg of theoretical constructs. And what is the result of all this speculative ingenuity? Like the defunct theory of phlogiston, it explains everything without explaining anything well. (pp 198-199)"

Matt Leisola, Finnish Research Biologist who lost his faith in evolution.


https://evolutionnews.org/2018/02/t...new-book-by-matti-leisola-jonathan-witt/


That pretty much sums up what we have seen here.
Evolution refuses intelligence except when it needs it for its selective processes. It denigrates faith except for when it asks you to believe its basic theory without question. It defines faith as the absence of evidence but then asks you to believe what is statistically impossible in the name of science.


Your "statistical impossibility" is every thinking man's statistical certainty, simply because you don't understand the first thing about probability and hence the word "random".