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TerranceL

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And why are you evolutionists so very angry? Why can you not just allow people to differ from you?

If creationists didn't feel the need to push their religion on the schools most of us wouldn't care.
 
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As for the drawings of Microraptor, the dimensions, the feathers, the shape, everything apart from colouration is exactly as the fossils suggest.
Just don't accuse us of [wrongfully] espousing "god of the gaps", when you guys are doing the same thing.

And don't think for one hertz of time that I'm not noticing the fact that my question about that lizard he was carrying wasn't answered.

Even Haeckel would not have done that --- or would he?
 
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Well, I wanted to give you all a scapegoat, someone you can feel good about calling an idiot. If no one disagreed with you, you'd be an awefully bored lot.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you a Martyr.

It doesn't matter that she's not been attacked, all that matters is that she wants to be.
 
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This is the only one I could find. And, while it may have seemed to Ursie that she was being called a moron, the truth is that it was her behavior in posting PRATTs in this thread that was being called moronic.

Also, seeing Ursie come in here asking why everyone assumes that Creationists are morons and then proceeding to act like a moron was pretty funny.
 
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Based on the photograph of Microraptor gui's fossil, is it a bird or a dinosaur?
 
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If creationists didn't feel the need to push their religion on the schools most of us wouldn't care.
LOL --- you guys certainly are a prime example of why we should have the Bible taught in school.

You don't even understand the basics.

I used to say that you guys couldn't understand anything beyond Genesis 1, but you've shown me that you can't even understand Genesis 1.

Now, I just say you guys can't understand anything beyond, "God did it" --- but I'm beginning to wonder about that now, as well.
 
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I understand it, I just don't believe it. Big difference. If you want to teach the Bible in school then allow us to teach about atheism in church.
 
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Just don't accuse us of [wrongfully] espousing "god of the gaps", when you guys are doing the same thing.

There's so much fail in that sentence.

Firstly, yes, you do believe in a God of the gaps. You use the supernatural entity to answer things that not knowing scares you.

Secondly, no. We're not. The only "God of the gaps" in that drawing was the colouration.

]And don't think for one hertz of time that I'm not noticing the fact that my question about that lizard he was carrying wasn't answered.

Even Haeckel would not have done that --- or would he?
OK, let's use another picture. This one's more accurate.



The initial point that you're so desperately trying to deter us from, was that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs and Microraptor is the perfect example of a species in between them both.

Whether you accept that or not, whether you like that or not, it happened. I couldn't honestly give a rat's behind what you believe, because so far, all you've shown us is that you believe absolute, and total nonsense. Whether you lie, twist words and invent new meanings for them to trick yourself, or others, into believing this nonsense is irrelevant. It doesn't make it any less absurd.
 
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And don't think for one hertz of time that I'm not noticing the fact that my question about that lizard he was carrying wasn't answered.
Ummm, it's a drawing? It's a representation of what the animal looked like while it was alive based on its fossilized remains. It's not an elaborately deceitful "fossil" intended to suggest that predator and prey were stuck in rock mid-flight.

But, since we're being so literal, perhaps you would care to produce the basis for this painting:
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Is it your opinion that this scene actually happened as pictured? Or that this is what God actually looks like? I mean, we already know that you believe Adam was a European white male of generous musculature (but apparently, very modest endowments) because you "prefer artists' renditions."

I'm still waiting for your answer about this humongous double-standard you have.
 
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This is the only one I could find. And, while it may have seemed to Ursie that she was being called a moron, the truth is that it was her behavior in posting PRATTs in this thread that was being called moronic.
Hey, give the girl some time.

If she can go three and a half years here without being called almost everything but what's in her profile, you might have a point.
 
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Based on the photograph of Microraptor gui's fossil, is it a bird or a dinosaur?
I don't know --- 354.

And as I understand it, you guys think birds are dinosaurs.

(But only when you're claiming dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible.)
 
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Haha.

Oh n0es, Av, what's this?



Is that... is that a... belly button? On Adam?

This is clearly a Haeckel painting.

Lulz.

Plus, Adam's left-handed. How... sinister.
 
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I don't know --- 354.

And as I understand it, you guys think birds are dinosaurs.

(But only when you're claiming dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Bible.)
Usage of language, AV, usage of language. Something I know you have difficulties with, but also something that is really really usefull when talking with other people instead of at other people.
 
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Is your mind already made up?
 
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I'm sorry but are you confused that your mythology is difficult to understand?
 
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Another problem one will have to convince Ursie
is that if if the fossils presented are too close together in time, no change will be apparent, if the fossils have too much of a gap it will be claimed that these are separate species.
 
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Ladies and Gentlemen I give you a Martyr.

It doesn't matter that she's not been attacked, all that matters is that she wants to be.

New fallacy: Argumentum ad martyrdom -- I perceive that they don't like me, therefore I am correct.
 
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I never said that the Bible is 100% literal, when it is not it is very easy to understand that it is not literal, but that what I quoted does not suggest it is something other than literal.....
 
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