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Finally! On to the science!

Finally! On to the science!

Why does this idiot keep trying to make science and religion an either or question? It's like arguing whether gasoline or an apple is better fuel. Also, he's trying to have a scientific approach to religion and it's just SO full of holes and assumptions. (I have no problem with religion, but it's not something that can be discussed scientifically either.)

Not to mention, if the eye were designed, why does it have a blind spot? Mollusk eyes do not have a blind spot so you don't NEED a blind spot.

There are simpler eyes, look at the flatworm. It only has eyespots.

Blood came first. It just kind of squished around in organisms without veins or a heart because of the movement of skeletal muscles. This is actually how veins return blood to the heart. The organisms were small enough where there wasn't far for it to go. It's called an open circulatory system. Then the heart when the body was too big. Finally the blood vessels.

Of course having more feathers on the arm would make the jump bigger, making it easier to catch bugs. This is clearer in bats where a membrane could help them gild until it enlarges to the point where they could fly.

Mutations ARE random. Only the good ones persist. There's also a problem thinking that a wing will form from nothing; it wouldn't. If we look at vertebrates, wings only form from pre-existing structures. For example, a bird doesn't keep its arms AND grow wing. Instead its arms become more wing like. Why? Well that's currently debated, but more than likely it started with flapping a little to make a big jump.

It's been discovered that viruses can give an organism new DNA. In addition, there's something that happened when we went from a single celled organism to a multicellular organism that vastly increased the amount of DNA per organism. It makes sense - if one loop is big enough to make once cell, it figures that you would need two loops to make two cells.

I need to gnash my teeth again: archaeoraptor may be fake, but Archaeopteryx is real. Also, evolution can happen gradually or quickly. Horses could have lost toes all at once just like some birth defects leave people missing fingers. Please, please remember that genetics can be a dimmer switch or an on-off switch. (Not to mention, a truly beneficial mutation might take a population by storm and be ubiquitous quickly)