[schmichael]

Originally Posted by Arch Enemy

Well, shmicheal, since I've taken a huge, steaming crap on everything else you've said, you seem to want to stick to three specific subjects:

2. You don't understand common descent, yet say you do (another lie).

i still have an issue with this statement. you have not responded to my earlier post, which totally exposed your lack of understanding about common descent. i.e that evolution claims all life evolved from a single common ancestor.

Originally Posted by schmichael

archie, now you've done it. i wish i had thought of this two weeks ago when you first posted this nonsense.

posted from http://www.actionbioscience.org/newf...learticle.html

What is the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)?
By Anthony M. Poole LUCA gave rise to all life on earth.

Editor's Note: A comprehensive, original paper on LUCA by A.M. Poole is also provided on this website as a supplement to this article.

In the study of early life on Earth, one name towers above the rest: LUCA. LUCA is not the name of a famous scientist in the field; it is shorthand for Last Universal Common Ancestor, a single cell that lived perhaps 3 or 4 billion years ago, and from which all life has since evolved. Amazingly, every living thing we see around us (and many more that we can only see with the aid of a microscope) is related. As far as we can tell, life on Earth arose only once.




so to recap,

1. you posted this
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Originally Posted by Arch Enemy
Evolution does not, nor has it ever stated, that all life descended from the first simple reproducing organism

2. you then posted this
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Originally Posted by Arch Enemy
An introduction to evolution

The definition

Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next) and large-scale evolution (the descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations). Evolution helps us to understand the history of life.

The explanation

Biological evolution is not simply a matter of change over time. Lots of things change over time: trees lose their leaves, mountain ranges rise and erode, but they aren't examples of biological evolution because they don't involve descent through genetic inheritance.

The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother.



3. i pointed out that you had contradicted yourself
4. you denied this stating
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Originally Posted by Arch Enemy
I posted it; I also happen to understand what it means. YOU do not.

5. the article i posted above agreed with me