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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by spacehome on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:23PM (#10884419)
There are plenty of objections. Polls consistently show that something like 40-50% of Americans are creationists [1]. And this doesn't mean something vague like God guided evolution, but that evolution is an outright lie promoted by scientists and possibly invented by nefarious metaphysical creatures and that in any case the Earth is only a few thousand years old, so there couldn't have been time for Evolution to happen. The fact that you probably don't know these people is more than likely a testament to how people self-segregate into like-minded groups who reinforce each others' beliefs.

All these Creationists have heard of evolution and have reasons not to believe it.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by scott_s on Monday January 11, 2016 @07:41PM (#10884778)
The objections from such people have been fully and repeatably refuted. I doubt this new finding will cause any of them to reevaluate their position.
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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by spacehome on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:29PM (#10906708)
You're changing the topic. The fact that such arguments are "fully and repeatably refuted" does not dissuade people from making the arguments as much as you might think.
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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by meric on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:39PM (#10884511)
They are probably similarly amazed so many other people don't believe in God and the literal word of the Bible as much as they do.
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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by spdionis on Monday January 11, 2016 @11:04PM (#10885493)
A (pretty smart) friend of mine tried to show me that scientists' findings about he Earth's age are wrong because he read aome article about errors in the estimation technique.

He then argued that therefore Earth is not very old and evolution didn't have time to happen.

I was amazed...

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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by ionforce on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @12:15AM (#10885686)
It's quite frustrating that the illogical latch onto morsels/islands of logic that are convenient for their agenda.

You can pick and choose your religion, but you can't pick and choose with logic.

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Re:New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation changed ev... by bediger4000 on Monday January 11, 2016 @07:55PM (#10884831)
Probably, but that's very much beside the point that a huge pile of evidence points towards theory of evolution being true.

An argument from authority (My Holy Bible says that God exists!) is quite a bit less convincing than many lines of inquiry ending up at the same place.

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