“A whale was found with atavistic hind limbs of over 4 feet long. This makes perfect sense according to an evolutionary framework. Please explain how it makes any sense according to creationism.”
Do an Internet search for "photos of extra limbs" and you will find lambs with eight legs, people with four legs, three arms, etc. They have nothing to do with evolution and neither does a whale that has extra limbs.
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Please explain how a completely aquatic animal has the genes for the formation of legs, which are primarily used by terrestrial animals for land-based locomotion. Thank you.
Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
Detective Ray Comfort: "Well this looks like an accident, case closed"
Those lambs with eight legs sure fly in the face of an Intelligent Designer.
What part of RANDOM MUTATIONS and natural selection did you not understand, Bananaman?
It proves that the genes for limbs exist in whales. It suggests that whales descended from an earlier animal that had legs. And we've found fossils of such animals. If God created the whale from scratch, why would He put non-functioning genes in it for something it never needed? That's like a designer hiding a useless steering wheel in a locomotive.
People may be born with extra fingers, but they aren't born with feathers. If we damage HOX genes, we can make an insect grow extra body segments with extra pairs of wings on them; but we can't make them grow lungs or squid tentacles or other body part for which the basic genes don't exist, unless we start swapping genes from other animals.
you will find lambs with eight legs, people with four legs, three arms, etc.
But I thought you said God doesn't make mistakes.
The Point
And these clear genetic mutations do fit in with a flawless deliberate design by an immaculate creator incapable of mistakes who does everything for a very good reason? While the hard science that very clearly explains those mutations is still of course so wrong it should never actually be discussed and having it explained to you is sinning against a God that makes fish that walk, 8 legged abominations, and fowl that creep just because He is trying really hard to test your faith by making the world work to an observable and repeatable set of logical premises. That are somehow lies.
> That symbol is Ray lying down. I suspect Pyro was attempting to say that "the point" went way over Ray's stupid little head.
Yep. I apparently did a pretty poor job of it too; thanks for letting me know! I'll try to be more clear next time.
"Do an Internet search"
So all science is done solely on the information available on the Internet?
Do an Internet search on "Ray Comfort is a fucking idiot", and you will find all kinds of evidence that is true.
A whale was found with a bunch of bananas inside,
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@ pyro
“They have nothing to do with evolution”
“and neither does a whale that has extra limbs.”
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