First off, I'm an
atheist as well, but I'd like to point out some flaws in
Phrump's
logic.
His argument rests upon the concept that an entire
species begat of two individuals will be a species of twins, much like the
cheetahs he mentions. This holds true for a number of generations, but due to the concept of evolution (which
Phrump is amusingly arguing for), after a number of years, there will be sufficient
genetic variation, so that the species will not suffer the negative effects of
inbreeding. Or else, the species will be overcome by suceptibility to disease (like the cheetahs Phrump mentions) or some other flaw, and die off. This is known as
natural selection.
Phrump is correct, there is a huge amount of genetic variation in the
human species alone. Just look around you while you're on the
bus. What he doesn't account for, is the rather large chunk of time between 2003
A.D. and the birth of the first
homo sapien, or even the birth of an ancestor of the homo sapien. The population of cheetahs only recently (evolutionarily speaking) hit the low of 7, and there has been very little time (on an evolutionary scale) since this drastic reduction in population. Were the cheetah population to be left untouched by humanity, it would die off completely, as it is in a very precarious evolutionary position.
Also, two mere sets of genes can produce incredibly varied
offspring over a course of
generations due to
genetic mutation and
meiosis. So, an offspring can, after a number of years, have completely different
traits from its
ancestors. As long as a species survives the rigorous test of natural selection (which only some do, as is shown by Cro-Magnon man,
dinosaurs, and a slew of others), it could have possibly have been created from two individuals (I admit this option is more
possible than,
plausible). The point here is, I agree with Phrump,
Creationism is scientifically
flimsy, but I feel that many of his arguments are less than
sound.
By the way . . . this is not just some
malicious attack on
Phrump. He's a
friend of mine, and it's
all in good fun.