Re: West Virginia creationism

John Harshman wrote:

On 4/26/24 8:48 AM, erik simpson wrote:

On 4/26/24 7:28 AM, Ernest Major wrote:

On 26/04/2024 02:31, Ron Dean wrote:

I think due to gradual increasing genetic errors and increase rate of deleterious mutations each generation becomes  less fit than the preceding generation, so in the passing spans of time the genes of a species become less and less incapable of reproduction or species survival. This could account for many of 99%+ of of all species that ever lived that have gone extinct. Of course the dinosaurs became extinct due to a 6 mile diameter meteor striking the Earth. Also changing weather the coming and going of ice ages; as well massive volcano eruptions  accounts for extinction of many species for example in Siberia.

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Are you taking a progressive creationist position, in which your Intelligent Designer is continuously creating species de novo? Or are you claiming that the current 10 million (+/- a lot) species biota is the remnant of a much richer biota of a billion species?
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For your information, the conclusion drawn from the fossil record is that (for multicellular eukaryotes at least) species diversity has been generally increasing over time (though with big setbacks at times of mass extinction).
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I fear that Ron D's lack of knowledge of the fossil record, evolutionary biology and genetics precludes his having any coherent idea of how the living world came to be.
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It's remotely possible that by attempting to answer questions he can be led to realize that.

If current events are any guide, numerous people will correct him numerous times. In a week or two he will return and make exactly the same wrong assertions that were recently corrected. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseum.