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Here: http://lancelet.blogspot.com/2007/03/dr-david-menton-is-liar.html Enjoy!

Al Capone lied about God's creation?

These threads always make one think: There are so many elegant ways to disprove evolution. There is a world of countless possible very simple observations that could turn evolution on its head. And yet, all we get from creationists is a pile of rationalizations and polemics. Intelligent...

A shark tooth in the Burgess Shale. I don't see why we haven't found that yet of there had been a flood. It was a marine environment, after all. Heck, a tuna or salmon skeleton in the Burgess Shale would do the trick.

Creationist inadvertently discovering history of science: You really should read up on the history of plate tectonics (and by that I mean the history of the theory, not the plates themselves).

Actually, one can prove that the team that went up to the Arctic looking for Tiktaalik predicted its presence there. Please see this article that dates back to 1999 before this expedition first began. Note: be sure to read both pages of the article, the important bits come up on page 2

You're very welcome. So long as you have questions about this animal, I can do my best to answer. I have, after all, seen the material first hand and work with these kinds of fishes. Actually, no. This we can say for sure is categorically false. Tiktaalik rosae was described a week ago...

In just about every conceivable way. Where do you want me to start? I'll start at the tip of the snout. The external nostrils of a crocodile are placed on the top of the snout and are really close together. In Tiktaalik, the external nostrils are down on either side of the snout, close the...

[this post is a continuation of the one immediately previous] The other thing that Tiktaalik shows us is an incredibly tetrapod-like shoulder. When we look at a fish shoulder of a typical lobe-finned fish (the group from which tetrapods are supposed to have descended), we see that the shoulder...

I'm going to put a slightly different angle on this. TexasSky, I'm going to give you a little history about this animal Tiktaalik and help explain why it is so important. In the process, I hope to give a few clues as to how palaeontology and the associated evolutionary research is done. The...

Martin Brazeau is not an author on one of the papers. The papers were written by a completely different group in the US. Martin happens to know about what's going on, but is not one of the authors.

The quote you're talking about essentially sums up the agnostic position. At least it is my position in being an agnostic.

Oh, LOL! That shake! I thought you meant that thing he does with his head when he tries to put the fear of fire and brimstone in ya. You know, that shake that makes his little jowels flap around.

Yeah, certainly. Even still, that belittles the amount of work a pastor does. They are usually on-call 24/7 in case family dies, or there are other crises they need to attend to. It's no less dishonest to say a pastor only works two hours a week than it is to say that university professors...

[emphasis added] :D :D :D Whoever wrote that has obviously never even set foot on a university campus! They teach maybe six hours per week. It is positively ludicrous to translate that into how much they actually work. Professors are dedicated, hard-working, and very passionate and...

There's a conceptual difficulty with your question. There is an asymmetry here and "smoking gun" would only be applicable to one side: the creationist side. If we found a single layer -- just one -- with a mix of dinosaurs, modern placentals, and trilobites the evidence would be unambiguously...

Where did you get the notion that evolution says we're descended from a frog? I really want to know where you get this idea and a few references would be nice.

We laugh, but organisms such as this are not beyond the power of an omnipotent divine creator. If they existed, they would, however, be beyond evolutionary explanation. If creationists are going to ask evolutionists for transitional forms, I want to know where are the chimaeric forms?

Could you explain what you mean by this? No animal is every 'becoming' anything, even if you accept evolution. Selection only permits suitably adapted organisms, by definition. The net effect is supposed to be transformations over many generations. So, even to an evolutionist, you can't really...

It appears as though my identity has been busted! ;) Thanks, Nooj! PM me if you need a copy.