Children resemble their parents and often their siblings but they are not clones. That’s evolution.
Are we created in God’s image? Only if He evolved on earth.
God has a weird sence of humor.
And if all this evolution shtick is supposed to be right… explain the Bombadier beetle!
(i get that one all the time from creationists. they claim their is no way it could have evolved)
From the bottom of this page:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/feedback/jul96.html
Richard Dawkins writes the following in his book, The Blind Watchmaker (Norton, New York, 1987, pp. 86-87):
Anti-evolution propaganda is full of alleged examples of complex systems that ‘could not possibly’ have passed through a gradual series of intermediates. This is often just another case of the rather pathetic ‘Argument from Personal Incredulity’ that we met in Chapter 2. Immediately after the section on the eye, for example, The Neck of the Giraffe goes on to discuss the bombardier beetle, which
“squirts a lethal mixture of hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide into the face of its enemy. These two chemicals, when mixed together, literally explode. So in order to store them inside its body, the Bombardier Beetle has evolved a chemical inhibitor to make them harmless. At the moment the beetle squirts the liquid out of its tail, an anti-inhibitor is added to make the mixture explosive once again. The chain of events that could have led to the evolution of such a complex, coordinated and subtle process is beyond biological explanation on a simple step-by-step basis. The slightest alteration in the chemical balance would result immediately in a race of exploded beetles.”
A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles. I am now about to mix the two together. According to the above, they will explode in my face. Here goes…
Well, I’m still here. I poured the hydrogen peroxide into the hydroquinone, and absolutely nothing happened. It didn’t even get warm. Of course I knew it wouldn’t: I’m not that foolhardy! The statement that ‘these two chemicals, when mixed together, literally explode’, is, quite simply, false, although it is regularly repeated throughout creationist literature. If you are curious about the bombardier beetle, by the way, what actually happens is as follows. It is true that it squirts a scaldingly hot mixture of hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone at enemies. But hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone don’t react violently together unless a catalyst is added. This is what the bombardier beetle does. As for the evolutionary precursors of the system, both hydrogen peroxide and various kinds of quinones are used for other purposes in body chemistry. The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around. That’s often how evolution works.
Phobos
August 12, 2002, 4:10pm
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To add to what tomndebb presented…http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html
Creationists have better luck arguing the “irreduceable complexity” line using Behe’s biochemistry (“Darwin’s Black Box”) given the complexity of that subject. But even those “irreduceably complex” claims have been shown to be reduceable & explained by evolution. Ken Miller’s book “Finding Darwin’s God” has a good chapter that refutes Behe’s claims & provides examples of how such biochemistry could have evolved.