Tucker Carlson on Joe Rogan 4/18/2024
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I didn't understand that one. I was hoping he would elaborate on adaptation vs. speciation or some other creationist talking points but he didn't even go there, either because it was off-topic (?) or he doesn't have the facts.
I took that as Tucker calling BS on the Cambrian Explosion where all fundamental bodily forms just appear out of nothing in the fossil record.
Easily explained by evolution creating basic structures in DNA that allow for rapid changes to form.
Homeobox genes are such a device and a few date back to pre-Paleozoic. Paleozoic starts with the Cambrian. These are responsible for basic symmetry and segments.
Even if your information is 100% true you can reach totally wrong conclusions if you're missing important parts of the whole picture. It's like that media framing the scene meme, only with science. Regarding evolution, religious nuts are the ones behind the camera.
Longer example, it's fascinating to watch this flat earther explain his beliefs because pretty much all the facts he's basing it on are true and his conclusions make sense based on his incomplete knowledge.
I'm aware of homeobox genes, but they just shift the problem to a different structure. It's still the same problem and the answer is still, "there's a lot we don't know, but we know it happened because all life developed from single cell organisms."
I sympathize with annoyance at the misdeeds of religious nuts but then again, I am one of them. As far as the other side goes, it's fascinating how Dawkins and company got everything they demanded in less than two decades of advocacy, only to reject it in horror, coming crawling back to "cultural Christianity" even in public.
There's no problem here or shifting.
It's so fucking common sense you don't even need to look at genetics, but it's there to look at. Can an elephant impregnate a mouse? No, because they're not a compatible size and shape.
So obviously when things started to have different forms they're not going to even be compatibly shaped with most other creatures, so no sharing of genes back and forth, so more differences accumulating.
But I do agree with you that it's funny watching people who formerly were totally on board with evolution v religion now saying "but there's only 30 million genetic differences between races!" when even a single base pair change can mean life or death.
I thought he might be saying panspermia or something like that, but then he says God created Man so it's pretty clear he's just a religious nut on that topic.
It is totally possible life here came from Mars or interstellar space debris, but to pretend that life did not continuously change through evolution once it was on Earth is insane. Any level that you look at from molecular to micro to macro says it.