Re evolving microorganisms:

“This is ADAPTATION, not evolution.”

It occurs to me that you’re not applying the biological understanding of these words. Adaptation essentially means getting used to something â?? say you have a neighbor who wakes up at 4 AM every day. After a while you don’t notice his movements any more, because you’ve adapted.

Adaptation can be seen as a response of consciousness to a specific set of environmental conditions, but it is the bourn of consciousness. Rocks don’t adapt to the ocean by turning into sand, after all.

Similarly, genes do not adapt. They mutate, change, drift, but they don’t “get used to” anything. This minor variation in gene code is what drives the biological side of change in organisms. It’s the environment that drives the selection side. The interaction of genetic change and environmental selection is the system known as evolution.

Bacteria and viruses are not adapting. They are evolving.

“Birds are birds. Dinosaurs are dinosaurs. two COMPLETELY different animals altogether. One is warm blooded, one is cold blooded. One is a bird. One is a reptile. One has feathers. The other has scales.”

Actually there’s some pretty compelling evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded. They certainly were not reptiles.

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurcontroversies/i/warmblooded_2.htm

There have been fossils found showing feathers associated with saurian forms, and the genetic link to dinosaurs and birds has actually been established:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202043.html

Do understand, too, that the time scales we’re talking about are vast. Tens of millions of years is at least one million times the duration of all recorded human history. That’s a lot of time in which small changes can add up to much larger ones.

“Monkeys turned into humans? No one has explained why monkeys are still here then.”

For starters, no, monkeys did not turn into humans. Monkeys have tails. We’re actually apes; apes don’t have tails.

As for primate evolution, it’s not a linear progression from less- to more-advanced. That is, there isn’t a ladder being climbed by life, in some sort of “progression”, toward some kind of goal. So the primate evolutionary line does not look like this:

Gorilla > chimpanzee > human

…it looks more like this:

Common ancestor -> Gorilla
|-> Chimpanzee
|-> Human

That is, at some point in the past – about 8 million years ago, as I recall – the apes that exist today split off from a common ancestor. Gorillas evolved along one line, chimps along a second, and humans along a third. This was a series of branches, as from a tree limb; you don’t look at an apple blossom and ask why the tree still has leaves, do you? Similarly, the existence of other primates along with humans is not particularly surprising. It would be more surprising if things weren’t the way they are, actually.

This is quite well-known and well-understood, so to say that “no one has explained” it is simply false.

It’s also worth noting that chimp and human DNA is virtually identical.

“No one here can even offer to give me evidence of evolution.”

I’ve just offered several pieces of evidence. What I suspect you cannot do is refute them.

“Transitional fossils are a joke.”

Do you mean that you don’t think there are any such fossils, or that the transitional fossils which exist are somehow nonsense?

Like I said before, your posts have been so horrifically bad and full of scientific misunderstanding (to put it mildly), I’d suspect that you were a Poe.

Ben, actually, although they would LIKE to do that, they can’t. If they truly need a transfusion, we get a court order that allows us to transfuse. There are judges assigned to be called in the middle of the night just for that reason. I have never heard of a judge refusing.

Once they turn 18, it is a different issue. I have seen an 18 year old who had just given birth, and told she would die without a transfusion, refuse until she died in our ICU. There was nothing we could do about it.

If, as you say, evolution is not a fact, please explain how it is that bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics, and how the seasonal flu changes from year to year.

Please provide arguments rooted in testable, verifiable processes. (“Satan is making it happen” or “God is changing the bugs to test us” do not constitute such an argument.)

While we’re at it, please define your concept of “opinion” and show how that definition is different from your concept of “fact”.

Opinion is not fact. Wishing it is so, doesn’t make it so.
Funny that people opposing evolution don’t also challenge the ‘theory’ of gravity, by stepping off the nearest skyscraper. We all know, that it is also ‘only’ a theory.

And while the dig about evolution should be left to pass, it’s a clear symptom that you’ve chosen to ignore what’s in front of your very eyes.

To paraphrase a quote from Carl “no no, my god must be small, our uderstanding cannot grow because this book must have all the answers.”

“As a Christian I know it is entirely possible to heal someone this way.”

‘nough said.