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Dear Janet1983

Your user page is WP:NOT a soapbox and what you had on it was forbidden by the policies of WP:USER. I have removed the offending content as being disruptive to the project as per the commentary at WP:USER. Commentary that is unrelated to the task of building the WP:ENCYCLOPEDIA may be removed by any user at any time. --Mainstream astronomy

Comments, Questions & Answers:

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
   • Space comes from its own metric expansion.
2. Where did matter come from?
   • Matter comes from other forms of energy per E=mc2
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
   • Physical laws do not originate from anywhere, they are simply descriptions of the universe.
4. How did matter get so perfectly organised?
   • It isn't perfectly organized
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
   • Cosmic inflation and especially reheating.
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from non-living matter?
   • Abiogenesis occurred on the Earth some 3 to 4 billion years ago.
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
   • Self-replication is a fundamental aspect of certain chemicals.
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
   • Another cell with which horizontal gene transfer was already happening.
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain the origin of?)
   • Supply and demand. Population dynamics is a well-understood science.
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties?
    • Through natural selection.
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove that they had a common designer instead of a common ancestor?
    • Depends on what you mean by "designer". DNA is what drives the "design" of life.
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true?
    • The first sentence is untrue. Increasing complexity can arise through a number of mechanisms that are too numerous to outline here, but are outlined elsewhere:
13. When, where, why and how did
    1. single-celled plants become multi-celled?
       • At about the Cambrian explosion
    2. two and three-celled intermediates evolve?
       • At about the Cambrian explosion with colonies
    3. single-celled animals evolve?
       • In the Precambrian.
    4. fish change to amphibians?
       • 375 million years ago
    5. amphibians change to reptiles?
       • 300 million years ago
    6. reptiles change to birds (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!)
       • 150 million years ago
    7. intermediate forms live?
       • Such as the ones listed above?
14. When, where, why, how and from what did
    1. whales evolve?
       • Evolution of cetaceans
    2. sea horses evolve?
    3. bats evolve?
       • Bat#Classification and evolution
    4. eyes evolve?
       • Evolution of the eye
    5. ears evolve?
    6. Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others?)
    1. The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body's resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.?)
       • Simultaneous evolution.
    2. The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
       • Simultaneous evolution.
    3. The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs?
       • Simultaneous evolution.
    4. DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
       • RNA world hypothesis has it that RNA came first.
    5. The termite or the flagellates in its intestines that actually digests the cellulose?
       • Simultaneous, symbiotic evolution.
    6. The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
       • Simultaneous, symbiotic evolution.
    7. The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones?
       • Simultaneous evolution.
    8. The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
       • Simultaneous evolution.
    9. The immune system or the need for it?
       • Simultaneous evolution.
16. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that evolution is the only explanation for these relationships?
    • Because, in point of fact, there are no examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation.
17. How would evolution explain mimicry? Did the plants and animals develop mimicry be chance, by their intelligent choice, or by design?
    • Natural selection. Plants and animals that appear to be like something else or are camoflauged are given a niche advantage over those that do not.
18. When, where, why and how did man evolve feelings? Love, mercy, guilt, etc. would never evolve in the theory of evolution.
    • Evolutionary psychology is the study of this.
19. How did photosynthesis evolve?
    • Through the evolution of chloroplasts mostly.
20. How did thought evolve?
    • As a stimulus-response mechanism.
21. How did flowering plants evolve and from what?
    • Flowering plants#Evolution
22. What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of the other eight or ten kinds?
    • Why do you think there are ten kinds?
23. What would you have said 75 years ago if I had told you I had a living coelacanth in my aquarium?
    • I would have been skeptical.
24. Is there one clear prediction of macroevolution that has proved true?
    • 29+ evidences don't lie
25. What is so scientific of the idea of hydrogen gas becoming human?
    • It takes billions of years.
26. Do you honestly believe that everything came from nothing?
    • The idea of nothing is subjective. For example, a vacuum does not contain nothing.

After you answer the previous questions, please look carefully at your answers and thoughtfully consider the following.

1. Are you sure your answers are reasonable, right, and scientifically provable, or do you just believe that it may have happened the way you answered?
   • Yes.
2. Do your answers show more or less faith than the person who says, "God must have designed it"?
   • Less.
3. Is it possible that an unseen Creator designed this universe? If God is excluded at the beginning of the discussion by your definition of science, how could it be shown that HE did create the universe if He did?
   • People believe in a creator guide and accept scientific explanations all the time. See theistic evolution.
4. Is it wise and fair to present the theory of evolution to students as fact since over 90% of the population believe God created the universe?
   • Yes, see the answer above.
5. What is the end result of a belief in evolution (lifestyle, society, attitude about others, eternal destiny, etc.)?
   • Evolultion has helped us understand biology better and has enabled us to develop drugs and treatments that have improved our lives.
6. Do people accept evolution because of the following factors:
   1. It is all they have been taught?
      • Some, perhaps, but hopefully most people ask questions and learn for themselves.
   2. They like the freedom from God (no moral absolutes, etc.)?
      • Some, perhaps, but that doesn't make evolution less true.
   3. They are compelled to support the theory for fear of losing their job, peer status or grade point average?
      • Some, perhaps, but that doesn't make evolution less true.
   4. They are too proud to admit they are wrong?
      • Some people are too proud to admit they are wrong. Luckily, being wrong in science is no problem: that's the way science progresses.
   5. Evolution is the only philosophy that can be used to justify their political agenda?
      • Some perhaps, but that doesn't make evolution less true.
7. Should we continue to use outdated, disproved, questionable, or inconclusive evidences to support the theory of evolution because we don't have a suitable substitute (Piltdown man, recapitulation, archaeopteryx, Lucy, Java man, Neanderthal man, horse evolution, vestigial organs, etc.)?
   • Piltdown man is no longer taught. The rest of your examples are neither outdated, disproved, questionable, nor inconclusive.
8. Should parents be allowed to require that evolution not be taught as fact in their school systems unless equal time is given to other theories of origins (like divine creation)?
   • No. Parents who argue like this do not have the scientific credentials to make this kind of decision about the content of science classes.
9. What are you risking if you are wrong?
   • Not much. It's okay to be wrong in science.
10. Why are so many evolutionists afraid of the idea of creationism being presented in public schools? If we are not supposed to teach religion in schools, then why not get evolution out of the textbooks? It is just a religious worldview.
    • Creationism is the religious doctrine of one particular group of people. It is based on faith in a particular literal interpretation of certain ancient texts. This is not science. Evolution is observed to happen and is not subject to the interpretation of a small selection of ancient texts. Evolution is no more a religion than any other part of science.
11. Aren't you tired of faith in a system that cannot be true? Wouldn't it be great to know the God who made you, and to accept His love and forgiveness?
    • Evolution is true in that it has been observed. People accept God and evolution simultaneously too: see theistic evolution.
12. Would you be interested to see from the Bible how to have your sins forgiven and how to know for sure that you are going to heaven?
    • Not particularly, but that is a different subject.