Recent content by David_M

And to be wholly accurate the Coelecanth fossils found represent species that are extinct because the extant species are different to those in the fossil record (because Coelecanth is not a species name, its a name for a group of species).

Yet more confirmation that you don't understand genetics and evolution and the evidence that underpins it. You should have realised by now that making such laughably ignorant statements does not help your arguments.

More false statements. As the article clearly states that is the average salary for Geoscientists. https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Paleontology-Salaries That is what the majority of Paleontologists will be earning. Considering that these are people with a PhD its not that large an amount.

Zero-G does not mean there are no gravitational forces, it means that there is no NET gravitational force (and to be precise it is called microgravity not zero-g). Satellites orbit by balancing their orbital motion against the force of the earths gravity. On a flat earth satellites would need...

Sorry to disappoint you but the curvature has been repeatedly tested and confirmed. The simple evidence of a 24 hour sun in Antarctica and the rotation of the night sky in the southern and northern hemispheres adequately prove that it is impossible for the earth to be flat. Multiple other...

Yes, its pretty much impossible. Gravity makes it impossible for an object of the mass of the earth to be anything other than roughly spheroid.

It's AV's go to example for the "evils" of science. Of course its a fabrication as what happened was really a failure of regulation and a consequence of capitalism. Studies weren't done about the effects on pregnancy as there was no requirement to do so and studies cost money.

No intellectual capacity means no higher brain functions, for anyone after they have been born that equates to a persistant vegetative state which is the time when medical life support is rightly withdrawn. You also ignore the "even with medical support" a 6 week foetus cannot survive outside...

No it doesn't. It says it begins when breath is drawn, that is when it is considered that life starts just as it ends when you have taken your last breath. Exodus 21:22-25 is very clear, harm to the mother is treated as harm to a person "an eye for an eye, a life for a life", harm to the baby...

That is your opinion Is a small bundle of cells that has no intellectual capacity and cannot survive independently (even with medical support) a person? That is what we are considering before 12 weeks.

They read the OT and its instructions for abortion?

See, this is what bugs me. Why do you ignore information that runs counter to your narrative? Why was a retraction needed? Because science strives for honesty and tries to correct its mistakes. Very different to creationist literature. Here are Osborn's words from 1922. Not quite the...

That would be William King Gregory, a colleague of Henry Fairfield Osborn (the scientist to who Cook sent the tooth). Gregory's position in 1922/1923 was that the find was not of a human ancestor but a related anthropoid ape closer to Chimpanzees or Gorillas.

The original retraction retraction made it to the front page of the New York Times, it was also announced in both Nature and Science.

Because the person who claims to have found the new species gets to name it, of course it still needs to be accepted by the community as a new species. I would have expected that you might have picked up that piece of common knowledge some time in the last decade. No scientific papers seems to...