IDoNotGetIt

It is such a pleasure to argue with intelligent people.  One of my co-workers is an intelligent person and as a biology major in college, he knows much more than I do about biology.  So whenever I have a biology related question, sometimes I run it by him before going to the web for the answer.

Today, this got us into an interesting discussion because although he accepts evolution, he still believes that it needed god to “kick-start” it.  His reasons for this are complicated but can be distilled down to… what enabled the first pieces of organic material to replicate and encode data.  “The real chicken or the egg question” as he put it.

My response was that it is still more believable that it happened for natural reasons that we do not yet fully understand than that it happened magically.  He argued with me over this, saying that I was applying faith to my argument.  I said no I’m not and made the following statement.  “it is always more probable that X happened for natural reasons than that X happened for magical reasons” and ask him if that was a true statement.  He seemed to agree but in a very noncommittal way.  I explained that this is why my view was more rational than his.  At this point he changed the subject to entropy, I took this as a victory.

The entropy was a very brief argument as I quickly explained that those laws only apply in a closed system with no energy input which is not the case for earth, thanks to our nearby star.

48. Could it possibly be that the missing link does not exist?!

Yes.  As a matter of fact I’ll say this, the missing link that will satisfy people who do not believe evolution, does not exist.  Every time a missing link is found, it just creates two more missing links.  It’s like Zeno’s dichotomy paradox.

“The” missing link is a red herring.  It will never be found and more importantly, it isn’t necessary to prove evolution.  The proven facts that make up the theory of evolution are unequivocally substantiated and grounded in science.  The proverbial missing link is just another idiotic card (like the “it’s just a theory” card) that creationist and their ilk like to trot out every now and then to make sure no rational person takes them seriously. It’s ok guys, we know you are ignorant fools, you don’t have to constantly reinforce that knowledge by showing your massive ignorance of the scientific process.