Monophyletic Variation Evolution never permits one thing to "turn into" another, fundamentally different sort of thing. All evolution is just a matter of incremental, superficial changes being slowly compiled atop various tiers of fundamental similarities. Thus every new species, genus or higher taxa that ever evolved was just a modified version of whatever its ancestors were before it.
Those successive levels of similarity represent a taxonomy which will forever encompass all the descendants of that clade through inherited traits, no matter how different they eventually become.
-Aron Ra
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One such book.. Transcript from AronRa's:
"2nd Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" When believers argue over any of the many things which contradict their religion, they often challenge us to decide:
"Whom are we going to believe? The alleged word of God? Or that of men?"
As if Human inquiry had no chance against the authority they imagine their doctrine to be. But, When they say men; they're talking about science. When they refer to the word of God, they're talking about the myths written about God, by men.
If there really is an intelligent and purposeful creator, then it would have to be He who constructed the fossil record revealing evolutionary history. He also has to be the one who conceived the genetic patterns, which also trace that same course. It must have also been He who added all the other lines of evidence which point to the evolutionary conclusion exclusively and in brilliant detail.
Why else would these things exist? It's as if He were trying to tell us something..
Men couldn't create any of those things, but men can tell story’s; whoppers in-fact! It was men who wrote all of the scriptures pretending to speak for God. Every one of the worlds supposedly holy doctrines of any religion describe themselves as being written by men, not Gods.
Men who were moved by, or inspired by their favourite Gods, or perhaps taking dictation from angels; But, they were written by lonely, imaginative and imperfect mortals none-the-less. Not by angels, and certainly not by God.
If there really was "one true God", it should be the singular composite of every religion's Gods.
An uber-galactic super genius and the ultimate entity of the entire cosmos.
If a being of that magnitude ever wrote a book, then there would only be one such document; one book of God. It would be dominant everywhere in the world; with no predecessors, parallels or alternatives in any language. Because mere human authors couldn't possibly compete with it.
You wouldn't need faith to believe it, because it would be consistent with all evidence and demonstrably true; revealing profound morality, and wisdom far beyond contemporary human capacity. It would invariably inspire a unity of common belief for every reader; if God wrote it, we could expect no less.
But, what we see instead, is the very opposite of that.
Instead of only one religion, leading to one ultimate truth we have many different religions with no common origin, all constantly sharding into ever more deeply divided denominations. With each religion seeking conflicting truths and each are somehow claiming divine guidance, despite their on-going divergence in every direction.
Holy books are all declared to be the "absolute truth", and the "revealed world" of the "one true God"; the believers of each claim the others are deceived.
The only logical probability is that they all are, at least to some degree.
None of these have any particular advantage over the other.
None of them have any evidentiary, and none of them are historically verifiable.
All of them require faith and apologetics as well.
They also contain inconsistencies, absurdities and primitive notions once held true that have since been disproved.
So, they can claim no evidence of divine wisdom.
Many of them promote heinous atrocities in place of morality.
Many claim to be validated by prophecies now fulfilled, where each may also contain prophecies which failed to come to pass as predicted.
Leading theologians admit that all of the scriptures of any religion were written by human hands. As such, they were subject to the interpretations, impressions and perspectives of their primitive and often prejudice and politically motivated authors. They cite this as the explanation behind many of the contradictions in those books.
Curiosity. The world is strange. The whole universe is very strange. But see, when you look at the details and find out that the rules are very simple; of the game – the mechanical rules by which you can figure out exactly what is going to happen when the situation is simple.
It’s again this chess game. If you are in just a corner with only a few pieces involved, you can work out exactly what is going to happen, and you can always do that when there are only a few pieces; And so you know you understand. Yet, in the real game there are so many pieces that you can't figure out what is going to happen – so there is a kind of hierarchy of different complexities. It is hard to believe. It is incredible! In fact, most people don't believe that the behaviour of, say, me is the result of lots and lots of atoms all obeying very simple rules and evolving into such a creature that a billion years of life has produced.
There is such a lot in the world. There is so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomena that it is almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomena can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.
“Do you have to build the most complex scaffolding to find out the simple rules?”
But it is not complicated. It is just a lot of it. And if you start at the beginning, which nobody wants to do – I mean, you come in to me now for an interview, and you ask me about the latest discoveries that are made. Nobody ever asks about a simple, ordinary phenomenon in the street. What about those colors? We could have a nice interview, and I could explain all about the colors, butterfly wings, the whole big deal. But you don't care about that. You want the big final result, and it is going to be complicated because I am at the end of 400 years of a very effective method of finding things out about the world.
It has to do with curiosity. It has to do with people wondering what makes something do something. And then to discover, if you try to get answers, that they are related to each other – that things that make the wind make the waves, that the motion of water is like the motion of air is like the motion of sand. The fact that things have common features. It turns out more and more universal. What we are looking for is how everything works. What makes everything work.
But it is curiosity as to where we are, what we are. It is very much more exciting to discover that we are on a ball, half of us sticking upside down and spinning around in space. It is a mysterious force which holds us on. It's going around a great big glob of gas that is fed by a fire that is completely different from any fire that we can make (but now we can make that fire – nuclear fire.)
That is a much more exciting story to many people than the tales that other people used to make up about the universe – that we were living on the back of a turtle or something like that. They were wonderful stories, but the truth is so much more remarkable. So what's the pleasure in physics for me is that it is revealed that the truth is so remarkable, so amazing, and I have this disease – like many other people who have studied far enough to begin to understand a little of how things work. They are fascinated by it, and this fascination drives them on to such an extent that they have been able to convince governments and so on to keep supporting them in this investigation that the race is making into its own environment. - Richard Feynman
