Bulla564 said:
Mismatching fossils from mismatching dates are not uncommon anomalies in the fossil record. The complete picture is a nice set of extinct apes. To infer that they all share common ancestry is an unfalsifiable assumption.
You made a wrong assumption. I wasn't talking about fossils but about biologic evidence amongst other things as well. The complete picture isn't just fossiles, it isn't just bioligy, it isn't just astronomy, etc. It's all those things combined.
Show me an instance of scientific experimentation leading to completely different yet viable creatures (and no, two mice that can no longer reproduce don't count). Science has shown this is not possible.
You do realize complex evolution happens over tens of thousands of years?
My car is not like a living organism at all. Who put you on this earth? Was it an intelligent designer or your mom and dad? Or did your mom and dad actively design you? The difference is that a car can't reproduce itself. Organisms can. They are self sufficient. My car can't even drive by itself.
Can you show me a completely new species of organism being intelligently designed out of nothing right now?
A half-capable process becoming fully capable is NOT a big leap. What's 31,500 e-coli generations? 600,000 human years, only to improve the function of something? I wonder how long it took to assemble our entire digestive system...
You will find that it takes bacteria more generations to mutate and evolve than more complex organisms.
Actually a crap ton of species appear all at once at different intervals... evolutionists, of course, have to explain this away.
But before that? And before that? Don't you agree that species became more and more varied as time went on? It wasn't this varied from the start was it? How does intelligent design explain that there used to be no land animals?
Was it because life started in the water? Or was it because the land was not fit to walk on yet? If there was an intelligent designer that created all this surely he could have designed us to be able to deal with the earth how it was at the time of creation of the earth or design the earth to be fit for us right away. Why leave it to a slow process like that?
It doesn't take much effort to alter my car to be able to traverse water. Why then did it take billions of years for us to be designed and put on this earth?
Can you explain how we were designed if we were designed? What was the process like, what are our building blocks, in what kind of environment were we created? Did this intelligent designer also create light and gravity?
Ugh intelligent design creates more questions than it answers. Seriously how can you believe in something that makes sense of so little in the world while it leaves all these other questions unanswered?
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Species can become extinct by many factors. Similarities don't infer common descent any more than common functionality. Yes, ID can explain these things and many others.
Why so vague? These similarities can however traced back through the fossil and dna record amongst other things. Why doesn't common descent enter into intelligent design? It does in the real world. Every wheel based vehicle can be said to have a common ancestor.