Cenk is killing Darwin!
posted by happyhominid
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George Bush - stop jawboning the Saudis!
Cenk - stop defending evolution!
If you like this story, digg it!
George Bush - stop jawboning the Saudis!
Cenk - stop defending evolution!
Cenk has it right in general principle but then massacres it. He sort of explains the basics and then invokes what Darwin would have called "a hopeful monster" - an extreme mutation (which, as Contessa points out, is not even the case with "tree man") and claims that it could be "selected".
The worst moment was when he (correctly) mocks creationists on the problem of evolving an eye but destroys it by saying - "this is the way it could happen" (like "tree man").
No, how it happens is by cumulative changes (from tiny mutations and tiny recombinative effects) stretched over vast periods of time, combined with the selective process that Cenk did a pretty good job explaining.
The eye has independently evolved a number of times in the animal kingdom (insects, octopuses and orangutans, for instance). If you start with some cell tissue that, perhaps, is particularly sensitive to light, it could over a long time evolve into more complex cells that could distinguish early morning light from mid-day light. If this brings ANY small degree of reproductive advantage, the characteristic will spread throughout the species gene pool. Later, a mutation could arise that allows detection of general shapes. Again, if there is an advantage it spreads until it is the norm.
I won't go on and on taking you to an eagles eye (by the way, if man is so "perfectly" created in god's image, how come birds can see so much better than god?).
Anyway, Cenk (and everyone who wants to talk about evolution), please read a few books on it. I can make recommendations for general readers if you need it.
The worst moment was when he (correctly) mocks creationists on the problem of evolving an eye but destroys it by saying - "this is the way it could happen" (like "tree man").
No, how it happens is by cumulative changes (from tiny mutations and tiny recombinative effects) stretched over vast periods of time, combined with the selective process that Cenk did a pretty good job explaining.
The eye has independently evolved a number of times in the animal kingdom (insects, octopuses and orangutans, for instance). If you start with some cell tissue that, perhaps, is particularly sensitive to light, it could over a long time evolve into more complex cells that could distinguish early morning light from mid-day light. If this brings ANY small degree of reproductive advantage, the characteristic will spread throughout the species gene pool. Later, a mutation could arise that allows detection of general shapes. Again, if there is an advantage it spreads until it is the norm.
I won't go on and on taking you to an eagles eye (by the way, if man is so "perfectly" created in god's image, how come birds can see so much better than god?).
Anyway, Cenk (and everyone who wants to talk about evolution), please read a few books on it. I can make recommendations for general readers if you need it.
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