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No mention of drug resistance?

Didn't seen any mention of drug resistance which is another argument for evolution. See for example the article on antibiotic resistance. The diagram in the article shows a: "Schematic representation of how antibiotic resistance evolves via natural selection. The top section represents a population of bacteria before exposure to an antibiotic. The middle section shows the population directly after exposure, the phase in which selection took place. The last section shows the distribution of resistance in a new generation of bacteria. The legend indicates the resistance levels of individuals." Pgr94 15:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

This article is meant to be an overview of the "creation-evolution controversy", not a detailed listing of every "argument for evolution". The closest article to the latter topic is evidence of common descent. Hrafn_Stalk 16:12, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Slightly more clarification, this is a page about primarily the political dispute, since there is no real scientific dispute. The page should not attempt to 'prove' evolution. WLU 16:27, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Pgr94, you correct that antibiotic resistance is another argument for evolution. In fact, it is "slam-dunk" evidence for evolution by natural selection. However, the effect of this evidence specifically on the creation-evolution political controversy has been limited, because creationists tend to see this only as evidence of what they call "microevolution", which they don't generally deny due to the overwhelming evidence in support of it. It might be worth including drug resistance as an example in another evolution-related article, if it is not already mentioned (just remember not to use the Misplaced Pages article as a source). — DIEGO 16:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

The biggest problem we have here is that there is not enough room in the articles of some of these topics for all the material that people want to insert in them. In areas like evolution and creationism, there are literally hundreds of linked articles that should be read to get a broad overview of the science and the politics. No single article can address it all, and a single article that did try to do this would be so large and unweildy that no one could edit it or write it or read it.--Filll 17:12, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

The whole world is evidence of evolution. The article could probably read: "For more evidence of evolution, see Special:Random" User:Krator (t c) 17:16, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate that the article is about the main classes of opinion, not the detailed arguments. Scientifically, antiobiotic resistance is pretty much "slam-dunk" as DIEGO puts it. As I wasn't aware that creationists make a distinction between micro- and macro- evolution, I thought it might be worth mentioning. Cheers. Pgr94 17:35, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

The distinction is largely whether the changes we see are sufficient enough to explain molecules-to-men theories, and there is some technical discussion about information theory as well. The debate is about history rather than science from what I can tell. CobraA1 (talk) 19:00, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Creation-evolution controversy article paints a distorted picture of the debate

Unsubstantiated WP:SOAP userfied to User talk:Jhampson4 Hrafn_Stalk 09:46, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The debate influencing society

The debate has brought about 2 interesting side results

A board game (http://www.livingwaters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=536&Category_Code=) and a MMORPG (http://crevoscope.com), and I am sure some other such things. A mention of them should exist in the article, at least in passing... PS I am new here, so I apologize if I made some kind of error of etiquette... 20:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Yaroslav

Influences on society: making a lot of people angry by threatening to make many more ignorant. User:Krator (t c) 20:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think those are important enough to merit mention yet per WP:WEIGHT. But Krator, let's please try to maintain a civil discussion. ~ S0CO 20:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

That was my point too, yes :) User:Krator (t c) 20:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Living Waters is part of Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron's rather lightweight ministry, which tends to employ silly gimmicks (of which this boardgame is one). Unless substantive comment on this particular gimmick can be found in WP:RSs, I see no reason to mention it in the article. Hrafn_Stalk 02:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

gallup poll

i've reverted the recent revert. the numbers given are nowhere in that video, which incidentally i watched before you reverted, as my original intention was to find the correct link and rewrite the sentence to include the sample population.--Mongreilf (talk) 15:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Creation & Evolution similarities

Creation and Evolution have similar traits.Evolutionists believe that the universe came from a cosmic egg which exploded in the big bang.Creationists believe God formed life.Both beliefs have something that has been there before Time began.God or a cosmic egg. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesus Is risen (talk • contribs) 01:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Stunning. Baegis (talk) 02:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

The differences are bigger than the similarities. One depends on data and other evidence. The other depends on the ranting and raving of assorted self-appointed religious experts and flakes who demand that everyone else accept their own personal interpretation of one version of thousands of contradictory error-ridden versions of a self-contradictory ancient text literally, in spite of disagreeing with the product of thousands of years of analysis by the greatest religious scholars that ever lived (such as St. Augustine, Maimonides and a who's who of the gifted and renowned minds who have devoted their entire lives to studying the scriptures). Feel free to believe whatever you personally want to. However, when you want to impose fruitcake ideas on everyone else by force, then there is a problem. Ok?--Filll (talk) 02:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Let's refrain from inflammatory speech. In regard to the similarities between the origins of the universe in the two opposing views, the primodial egg presumes matter preceded God while the reverse is true in Scripture. BryanSWiley (talk) 05:45, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I stand by what I said. Render under caesar what is caesar's and unto god what is god's, right? And also, according to the Koran, there is no compunction in religion. And you are a bit confused about the two views but that is fine. Try to learn a bit more before you engage in rants here. We are here to write an encyclopedia. What are you here for?-Filll (talk) 05:54, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Evolution Biased

Hrafn_Stalk 12:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Why was the entire section removed? I thought a valid discussion was going on. The Other Side of the Argument (talk) 22:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Because your claim that we should present the scientific merits of ID is itself without merit, as ID has no scientific merit. Raul654 (talk) 00:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

It was not a "valid discussion" per WP:TALK. You were attempting to debate the validity of ID, not the contents of the article. You were also citing a patently absurd source: some random apologetics blogger's made-up "trillions of trillions of trillions" number. Hrafn_Stalk 03:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I was not attempting to debate the merits of ID. I was trying to point out that the arguments of only one side is presented in the article. What evidence is there that the source of my evidence is bad. It seems the only ones trying to debate are the ones saying ID has no merits. The Other Side of the Argument (talk) 00:42, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

This page is for discussing changes to the article. If you have specific proposals for changes to the article, feel free to share them. The rest of it really isn't relevant here. Guettarda (talk) 01:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

We get a lot of trolls and sockpuppets here, read through the archive and see if you're offering anything new. Otherwise, we've seen it before, read WP:V and WP:RS for why random blogs aren't sources. WLU (talk) 02:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Transitional fossils

This section is not neutral as it claims that the creationist's argument is based on a misunderstanding. This is subjective, as their argument is based on interpretation and therefore, you cannot say one is a misunderstanding over the other because you cannot know whether the evolutionist is misunderstanding the creationist's argument. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.173.184 (talk) 15:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

If you have a contrary view, and it is published in a peer-reviewed mainstream journal like Science, Nature, Journal of the Royal Society, something published by the National Academy of Sciences or equivalent, then bring it to this talk page. Otherwise, it is just your own personal assertion and is not worth much.--Filll (talk) 15:41, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I think the article is giving creationists too much credit in calling it a "misunderstanding" -- it appears to be a purposeful "strawman" distortion of "transitional feature" that they have created -- the old "what use is half an eye" fallacy (when evolution in fact deals with "an eye with half the features" -- where these "features" are colour, depth perception, focusing, etc, etc). Hrafn_Stalk 16:23, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

If[REDACTED] is intended to be an encyclopedia, please can you explain why this entire article is written from an evolutionary perspective? I am concerned that this article points out the flaws in creationists arguments rather than presenting, neutrally, what the debate is about. For example, the section on entitled Misrepresentations of Science constitutes an accusation against creationists that they misquote evolutionists when they may claim that evolutionists do exactly the same thing. And, from my research, both sides misquote and misrepresent one another. Another example of the non neutrality of this article can be found in this quote, "Although transitional fossils elucidate the evolutionary transition of one life-form to another, they only exemplify snapshots of this process. Due to the special circumstances required for preservation of living beings, only a very small percentage of all life-forms that ever have existed can be expected to be discovered." This is a valid defence of the arguments that creationists use but something which is inappropriate in an informational document claiming to present the facts of the debate, we have EvoWiki for that, it should not be brought up here. The neutrality of this article is severely in question. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.173.184 (talk) 22:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I guess you didnt read what I wrote above. Take a sentence you do not like. Present it here. Present a substitute version. Make sure you have WP:RS for your suggested change.--Filll (talk) 23:06, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. An example may be: "Although transitional fossils elucidate the evolutionary transition of one life-form to another, they only exemplify snapshots of this process. Due to the special circumstances required for preservation of living beings, only a very small percentage of all life-forms that ever have existed can be expected to be discovered." This sentence should be removed as this article is not supposed to be a defence of evolution but a presentation of the views of both sides. So maybe, rather than removing this sentence it could say, "Creationists claim that there are no transitional forms in the fossil records. Evolutionists dispute this as a fallacious claim and a misrepresentation of the facts." Surely the arguments are irrelevant from either side, all we need to know in this article is what either side believes, not the specific claim and refutation. Furthermore, if this sentence is allowed then surely a reference from a creationist's viewpoint should be citied? I am a user, not an editor and this article troubled me when I saw it because large parts of it do not appear to be neutral.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ] (] • ])

Well first, learn to sign your contributions or you will not be taken very seriously. Second, you have to provide sources if you want to make claims like that. For example, provide a source that shows that we would expect the fossil record to be so complete that all transitional forms should be present and found, if they existed. These sorts of sources should be in peer-reviewed science journals, like Science, Nature, Transactions of the Royal Society, or Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Then you will be taken seriously.--Filll (talk) 23:30, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

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