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he would have been remembered only for his basketball prowess, and therefore Space Jam would never have been made.

>>8994342
>Claims that any large percentage of biologists disputes Darwinian evolution.
Evolution is a fact, among biologists. Estimates for its support are something like 99.9%. While there are disputes about rates of change and the importance of various mechanisms, it's practically universally accepted.
>Organ X is too complex to have evolved.
This is argument from incredulity. If someone cannot imagine how some organ might have evolved, that speaks to the limits of their imagination, not to any flaw in evolution.
>The second law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution.
The second law of thermodynamics states that in a closed system, entropy necessarily increases. Earth, however, is not a closed system! It receives infalling material and also quite a lot of energy from the Sun. Local decreases in entropy can be offset by increases elsewhere, and adding energy to a system can drive quite a lot of entropy-reducing processes; this can be verified by letting a glass of salt water evaporate, forming highly ordered crystals.
>If evolution is true, then why aren't we still evolving?
We are still evolving. We're just evolving under a radically different set of conditions and driven by an entirely different kind of selective pressure (very little survival selection, almost entirely mate-choice selection). And of course, evolution is incredibly slow in long-lived K-selectors like us.
>References the Piltdown Man, the Nebraska Man, Archaeoraptor, or a similar hoax as evidence against the reliability of paleontology.
All those hoaxes (or misidentifications, in Nebraska's case) were quickly discovered BY OTHER PALEONTOLOGISTS. Other controversial specimens, from Archaeopteryx to the platypus to the Taung Child, have been greeted with skepticism as well. But they have been investigated independently and thoroughly, and found to be real. That's the great thing about science: it's self-correcting.