No I don't think it's funny, these are peoples lives that are being ruined because of some crazy brain numbing belief.
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Man and dinosaur coexisting
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Really? Why would we expect to find fossils period, much less transitional fossils (in the dictionary sense) "all over the place"? Do you even understand how fossilization happens and why it doesn't happen very often, even less so in particular environments?
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Incorrect. Frogs and salamanders are both members of Batrachia. They are related via common ancestry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrachia
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Oh really? Is this skull "fully ape" or "fully human"?
I guess you don't realize that your gotcha hypothetical has an answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissamphibia
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What does that prove? The taxonomic rankings are correct? Shoes, they calim chimps and humans are related..which we all know is false.
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It does not follow at all that if evolution is true, we'd find transitional fossils all over the place. Fact is, transitional fossils have been found. I don' t know the frequency, however. But if it should prove relatively low, I would take that as normal for them. Thing is, these are in-betweeners, and the lesson has been that in-betweeners are not well adapted and so may soon be extinguished. Actually, you can see that happening in our modern technology, where in-betweeners are often dropped for being quite inefficient.
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Transitional organisms have been hard to think up beforehand. The picture we may draw is often not how nature sees it. Some old-timers, for instance, depicted the missing link as literally looking someone half man and half gorilla. However, it does not work out that way in nature, as the transitional fossils of humans do not at all look that way.
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Jacksbratt, I have to tell you and several others here that your cases simply do not impress me, due to the fact they present only inflammatory rhetoric and offer no solid rebuttals to science of anything else.
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Why waste your time being so belligerent? What do you hope to accomplish by insulting people? Don't just emptily claim that people are wrong, give reason for it, and if you want people to care about what you say, then attempt to be polite when you do it.
I cringe when I read posts like this.
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PsychoSarah
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I wouldn't say it was arrogant. Personally, I think calling anyone stupid for having a different perspective on religious matters is being needlessly antagonizing. It would certainly be ignorant to claim that the reason why someone is not a believer is because they are "too smart" for it. Plenty of modern geniuses are theists, as are plenty of morons. Same goes for atheists. Being intelligent in and of itself does not distinguish the groups from each other.
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My statement still stands. And given my long-standing... problem, with consol, this does not deter me. Salvation from needless internet hate exists for all!
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I'm sure you have; so have I. I retain my right to respond disapprovingly to it.
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I agree, calling anyone stupid is antagonizing. However, many times on forums and threads posters are labeled as the less intelligent people of the populous due to their belief in YEC.
I would like to clarify that I did not say that they are not a believer because they are too smart for it. I stated that they consider themselves too smart to fall for it. They are so proud of all their education that they will not believe the simple text of ancient men. Many times I have been told that if I had the "education" or knew all the facts that I would not believe or that I would be a fool to believe in YEC.
This is why it is the simpler people, not necessarily the less intelligent but the simpler people who find it easier to grasp the truth of the gospel and the biblical history as it is written. They have the ability to approach it from a position of "teach me" not...."Bah, I've been taught and I know".
Call it arrogance, call it pride.... whatever. Their attitude is their stumbling block and their blinders.
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Let me ask you,
Does Science have an answer for everything? Is it possible that there are factors, forces, principles, objects, and actions that science has no way of understanding, measuring, proving or disproving?
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The way I see it is... if evolution is true and it took place over billions of years and each organism has a link to the original organism(even several original organisms) there would have to be infinite transitional species, kinds and organisms. Just to go from say a lizard to a bird.... there should be innumerable fossils of gradual change for just one simple macro evolutionary step. In order to account for the hundreds of different kinds of animals we have today and the ones that have become extinct for various reasons, there would have to be thousands upon thousands of fossils of minute changes.
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