tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post3974861461698109379..comments2024-03-28T09:47:25.719-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: Atheism and EvolutionDavid Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-68462366485090660952016-01-06T18:06:38.644-05:002016-01-06T18:06:38.644-05:00Yeah, in the next to last church I served at befor...Yeah, in the next to last church I served at before becoming Catholic, there was a professor of Calculus. He taught math, but his PhD was in physics with a focus on aerodynamics. Whew. He was great at 'dumbing it down' for me. He once said that flight could not evolve on its own. It just couldn't. He said you often hear 'first gliding, then flight evolved.' But, he explained, it takes more than wings or membranes to make flight. A hundred factors and characteristics have to be in place for whatever it takes to fly. And according to evolution, they all would have had to evolve, because being burdened with half the tools needed to fly, but lacking the others, is a sure way to be predator food, not a survivor. Just clip a bird's wings and leave it on the ground and see how long it lasts. I've not seen a good rebuttal to that. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-84623840956271732642016-01-06T17:29:24.188-05:002016-01-06T17:29:24.188-05:00Pretty much right there with ya. Most of my objec...Pretty much right there with ya. Most of my objections to Evo are either scientific (or those misusing it) and it's certainly tiresome that it's become the equivalent of the secular Pope.<br /><br />"A lot of baggage" that's a great way of putting it, I'll have to remember that for the future. ("I don't object to Evolution, I object to its baggage.")Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com