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I think he's talking about something like this April Fool's joke: April Fool Onyate Man was purportedly a fossil of a human caught in the process of being eaten by a dinosaur. To answer xianghua's question: if a real fossil like this were found, it wouldn't change the fact that evolution...

That's what I'm saying: figure out where those places are, locate them on a map, go visit them, collect fossils, and become famous.

And how can we test this hypothesis? Great. Like where? Find some likely places, go there, collect some fossils, and become instantly famous!

Are you implying that America isn't great again?

No, Mormonism prohibits caffeine.

Well, no: one of the remarkable distinguishing features of common descent is that we don't see similarities where we might expect to see them. For instance, horseshoe crabs and minnows are of comparable size, live in comparable habitats, and both need to see underwater. A designer who reused...

I just wanted to point out that you're conflating two issues: "is masturbation a sin?" and "is masturbation wrong?" A sin is something that contravenes a religious law, like working on the Sabbath, or eating pork, or killing a Brahmin, or drinking coffee. Just because something's a sin in one...

Back when I visited Ken Ham's creation museum in Kentucky, there was a skeleton of a rhino in the entrance hall. It had a sign that said, "the pair of rhinoceroses on the Ark diversified into perhaps 200-300 species in the first couple of centuries after the Flood." That works out to about one...

Tetrapods in general, yes. But Tiktaalik was a specific type of tetrapod: a transitional between full-on sea-dwelling tetrapods and full-on land-dwelling tetrapods (like us). I recommend Neil Shubin's book "Your Inner Fish". He explains how he and his team drew upon evolutionary biology to try...

There are also things like the discovery of Tiktaalik, which relied on us having a pretty good understanding of genetics, natural selection, paleontology, geology, and perhaps a few more sciences, all at the same time.

Please point me at the Bible passage that says that the poles didn't actually have any effect on the goats. Was it acute angle, at least?

Possibly because the story of Jacob and Laban, in Genesis 28 or so, presents a view of genetics that we know to be wrong: looking at striped poles does not cause a goat to have striped kids.

This raises a question: you mentioned earlier that you'd like to live in a theocracy. I assume you meant a Christian one. But as you say, there are many denominations of Christianity. So who should be in charge of figuring out which denominations are true ones and which aren't? I'm guessing that...

In other words, you can't point to any documents that support your assertion, and you ignore the quotation I provided that belies your assertion. Of course the first amendment protects the freedom to exercise or not exercise any religion. This goes counter to the first commandment, which says...

Then apparently you'd rather live in a theocracy than in a country with freedom of religion, and we are fundamentally at odds. I guess that's it for this conversation, then.

So, just to be clear: you seem to be saying that you're okay with people telling you what you can and can't do, whom you can and can't marry, based on their (not your) religious beliefs. Is that what you meant? Well, yeah. But here's an extreme example, just for illustration: John runs up to...

I'm not aware of any US founding documents that reference this principle. It's not in the constitution, or even the declaration of independence. If it were in the articles of confederation, someone would have mentioned it by now, since that had far more force of law than the oft-cited...

How far are you willing to take this? Here, for instance, is an address from 1960 that lays out a scriptural justification for segregation. Whether you agree with it or not (and many did), this person had a sincere religious belief that miscegenation was bad. If a majority on the city council...

Imagine, if you will, that it's a few decades from now, and Christians are in the minority. (Harp; wavy lines effect.) Your granddaughter, a Christian, is getting married (to a nice Christian man, if you like). You go to the local bakery that you've been to many times before. But this time, the...

Please take a look at what you wrote: you're not saying that Christianity is illegal, that churches are being taxed, or even that Christians have no voice in government or the media. You're literally complaining that people with different views exist. That Christianity isn't the only game in...