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The fossil evidence indicates that roughly 99% of all the species that have lived on earth have gone extinct. So the millions of species that we see on earth now, are only 1% of all the species that have existed throughout the history of the earth. So your God created 99 out of 100 species...

If the USA was supposedly founded on Christianity, why is Christianity not mentioned anywhere in the US Constitution? Nor God, nor Jesus, nor the Bible...

The account in Genesis refers to a 'tree of life' and a 'tree of knowledge of good and evil'. If this isn't a clear indication that the story is a parable, then I'll eat my hat. C'mon, people, its allegory.

Hank, Here's a great tutorial on greenhouse gases. C02 absorbs like crazy at around 2500 cm-1, which is roughly 4 microns wavelength. http://chemistry.beloit.edu/Warming/pages/infrared.html

We're not talking theology here, John, we're talking science. By the way, the last biology class I had was also in high school. Yeah, I got a physics degree that involved a few chemistry courses, but I've studied zero biology since then. Yet I can discuss evolution at a fairly involved level...

Ah, good link to Stenger's review, tof! Yeah, if Schroeder is trying to use an exponential redshift since the time of quark confinement, then he's just making a wild guess and trying to shoehorn everything into that picture. As Stenger nicely points out, most of cosmology doesn't fit into that...

My degree is from Univ of Southern California. Please present Schroeder's actual argument, rather than just a claim that he is right. Science claims are weeded out by the process of peer-review in leading journals--in which journals has Schroeder published his claims? If he hasn't published...

john, I have a BS in physics and an MS in quantum electronics. Those physics explanations of Schroeder's are nonsense. There is no explanation that can make the earth both 4.5 billion years of age and 6,000 years, at the same time. The earth is ancient, period. If you can't present...

FOW, you unwittingly give excellent ammo to atheists by claiming that you wouldn't believe evolution even if it were proven 100%. You say this is because 'God told you so'. See, evolution is as obviously true as gravity and electromagnetism, if you've studied the science. It is an observable...

Micaiah, we've asked you again and again to present your evidence. You claim there is a 'growing body of evidence' supporting young earth creationism. Where is it? More to the point, there are several threads in this section presenting evidence that simply cannot be explained by YEC'ers. That...

Micaiah, you said that when the scientific evidence for evolution is presented, 'they get lost in scientific jargon'. Who gets lost? We aren't lost. Are you lost? In other words, just because you don't understand the scientific explanations, you claim that all scientists are wrong about...

Who said anything about carbon dating? The age of the earth isn't determined through carbon dating. That's just a common creationist misperception. This is a great thread, glad it was revived. I haven't seen a YEC explanation for this one yet.

Not argument from Authority at all. My point is this--there are extremely few, if any people who have gone through the coursework, research, and dissertation necessary for a PhD in evolutionary biology, who say that evolution is false. The data IS the focus of my challenge. There may be a few...

Heck, the creationists would have more of a case if they could present a few evolutionary biologists, PhD level, who say that evolution is unsound. The creationists and ID'ers seem to be anything from geologists to chemists to, in the case of Philip Johnson, a lawyer. Are there...

I'm just astounded at the lack of response on this question. Hello? Any idea, you young-earth creationists? Why doesn't the ICR go and do a fossil dig?