Re: West Virginia creationism

Ron Dean wrote:

Martin Harran wrote:

On Wed, 8 May 2024 15:01:28 -0400, Ron Dean
<rondean-noreply@gmail.com> wrote:
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There is something, rarely mentioned in the literature.  Darwin was a
Christian until a great tragedy befell him and his family. That's the
death of his daughter, Annie in 1851 at the age of 10.  This naturally
caused great pain to Darwin and this terrible tragedy turned him against
religion and God whom he blamed.

 Back on 17 April, you wrote:
 "So, from this evidence I can see where I was clearly mistaken as to
Darwin's intent. He did not initially set out to discredit either
Paley or God."

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I had no reason to question Darwin's motives, but I was _not_ aware of the tragic death of his daughter.

Really? How strange, as I had already pointed out to you how untenable
that interpretation is back in 2018. https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/XU6CFmjsavg/m/pnqPAArECgAJ
But then you never took information on board that contradicted
in any way your preformed beliefs, at least never on TO, over the last
two decades or so

 Having been shown to have come out with utter  rubbish about the
effect of Paley on Darwin, you now turn to further rubbish to try to
hold on to your belief that Darwin was driven by some desire to get
rid of God.
 I'm still waiting for you to explain how come I and other religious
believers have no problem accepting the Theory of Evolution and the
role of Natural Selection.
 

Natural selection is not inventive. It acts only on mistakes and errors in the Genetic code. Each generation has a 100 or more mutations. So, there is a genetic decline over time. If you write a lengthy script on your computer, but a accidental set of letters or a word is found in the script
This cannot improve your script, but multiple errors destroys the specified information of the script
never improves the inforation.
This I would think is the same in specified information in DNA.

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