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yeah, and why are there still sinners around? his plan didn't work? gee, i thought he was, you know... omnipotent and omniscient.

this is strawman nonsense so your numbers don't even correspond to reality. that's total nonsense, and this is coming from someone with a degree in math here. not only is that number completely arbitrary, but things with much less chance than that happen all the time. if i was to roll a...

yeah, the photo in particular is questionable. it looks like 4 perfectly normal people just walking on their hands and feet, like they are playing some kind of game or something. *checks calendar*... hmm, not april 1st. what's going on here?

hmm. his sentiments sound strangely familiar.

if we don't have a hierarchy, then please show me even one single species that violates the hierarchy. any chimera will do. go ahead, we're waiting. wrong. the ERV hierarchy and the morphological one are arrived at by 2 different, independant methods, and yet they match each other...

no, creationism does not predict a nested hierarchy. if there was no nested hierarchy, that would be perfectly consistent with creationism. there is no reason we would have a nested hierarchy of all species other than common ancestry. that is why i accept this as evidence for evolution, and...

i am perfectly willing to do that. now please show me an alternate theory that predicts that the nested hierarchy of ERV insertions should match the one predicted by morphology. if you can't then there's nothing "outside the box" for me to look at. as i mentioned above, common descent...

there is only one theory that predicts the nested hierarchy of species, and that's common descent. since it predicts exactly what we find, then that makes this evidence for common descent. since no other theory makes this same prediction, it can only be evidence for evolution.

you're really going to have to elaborate if you want people to know what you're talking about.

well, not exactly. life began on earth around 10 billion years after the big bang. the first life would have probably been a simple self-replicating molecule. all it does is make copies of itself using chemicals from its surroundings. it doesn't know how to survive and adapt, it only...

hey, it's that, or admit he's wrong, which he will never do. he knows he doesn't have a leg to stand on in this thread.

not true at all. because the big bang, like all scientific theories, makes predictions about what evidence we should find if it is correct. if we do not find the predicted evidence, that falsifies the theory. for example, the big bang theory predicted the existence of cosmic microwave...

how convenient.

i'm not sure i know exactly what you mean. they are near to the big bang in time. but spatially, it doesn't make sense to talk about the location of the big bang. the location would be everywhere. yes, and we do detect it, the CMB. it is emitted at one wavelength, 3000K, and 13BY...

the light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe since it was emitted. it started at 3000K, but by the time it gets to us, it has been stretched to 3K. remember, the light we see from 13B light years away has been travelling for 13B years.

uh, no it doesn't. NS means non-random. natural selection doesn't randomly pick which individuals survive, it is decidedly non random. even by definition, it is a selective process, not a random one. that is why we are able to ovserve evolution which favors certain traits, like resistance to...

you are being asked to provide an argument that does not rely on the truth of the bible. many people here, such as myself, do not believe in the bible, so how are we to accept an argument that requires the premise that the bible is true? you are being asked to provide an extrabiblical argument...

says you. but so far i have seen no reason to believe such a thing exists. like i said, no one has yet presented a logical argument in this thread that favors the existence of a soul. all we've seen is opinion (above) and scripture.

so far in this thread, no one has presented any logical argument in favor of the existence of a soul. all that has been present so far is personal opinion, and some bible quotes. in fact, i don't think there is any logical argument which suggests the existence of such a thing. logic seems...

except the continents separated millions of years before there were any humans on earth.