The challenge (for the third time, and still unmet)

[livingforJesus-Shaun]

evolution

 

[RufusAtticus]

I smell a troll.

 

[livingforJesus-Shaun]

if you say so?

 

[Jerry Smith]

"Honey? What's this trash doing all over the front yard? It wasn't here yesterday."

"Don't be so paranoid, dear. It suddenly appeared there, right? So it must have evolved."

"Honey? What's this baby doing in the living room? It wasn't here yesterday."

"Don't be so paranoid, dear. It suddenly appeared there, right? So it must have been *poofed* into existence."

 

[euphoric]

Originally posted by livingforJesus-Shaun
their is no evolution

Oh, I see.  There is no evolution.  Well suddenly it's all clear.  Where do I convert?

-brett

 

[RufusAtticus]

You got it wrong, euphoric. It's not "there is no evolution" it's "their is no evolution."

 

[Jerry Smith]

the appearance (sudden, even) of new taxa continuously over the non-vertebrate fossil record is evidence of macro-evolution.

Another re-write is in order here to assist the reading impaired.

The appearance (even when it is geologically "sudden") of new taxa, each more modern in morphology than those before it, constinuously over the non-vertebrate fossil record is evidence of macro-evolution. As are several of the transitional series posted by Rufus, LFOD, myself, and others.

Clearly this about "no evidence for macro-evolution in 16, I mean 99% of the fossil record" is nonsense, even if the challenge remains unmet.

 

[npetreley]

Originally posted by RufusAtticus
You got it wrong, euphoric. It's not "there is no evolution" it's "their is no evolution."

Rufus, you're the last person on earth who should poke fun at grammatical and spelling errors. My 8-year-old puts your writing skills to shame.

 

[Morat]

  I'd reply in kind, Nick, but I think I'll hold off comparing your thinking skills to children's.

 

 

[euphoric]

Originally posted by RufusAtticus
You got it wrong, euphoric. It's not "there is no evolution" it's "their is no evolution."

Isn't their?      Shucks, guess I better go destroy my altar to Darwin.  Anybody want to buy a used "evolution is my God" t-shirt?

-brett

 

[euphoric]

Originally posted by npetreley


Rufus, you're the last person on earth who should poke fun at grammatical and spelling errors. My 8-year-old puts your writing skills to shame.

Maybe he can show you how to present a logically coherent, topically relevant argument then.

-brett

 

[Jerry Smith]

I'm out - my shirt reads "I sold my soul to Gould."

 

[euphoric]

Originally posted by Jerry Smith
I'm out - my shirt reads "I sold my soul to Gould."

I looked everywhere for that one.  I couldn't find it.  I had to settle for "There is no God but Evolution, and Darwin is His prophet."

-brett

 

[blader]

Originally posted by livingforJesus-Shaun
their is no evolution

Yes, I think that's pretty much the best evidence against evolution the Creationist can come up with.

 

[RufusAtticus]

Originally posted by npetreley


Rufus, you're the last person on earth who should poke fun at grammatical and spelling errors. My 8-year-old puts your writing skills to shame.

Bugger off. I'm responding to a troll.

 

[seebs]

Originally posted by npetreley


Rufus, you're the last person on earth who should poke fun at grammatical and spelling errors. My 8-year-old puts your writing skills to shame.

Really? Could you point at some of the errors in Rufus's writing that I may have missed? I sure haven't seen any 8-year-olds who can come close to Rufus's writing ability.

(Disclaimer: I only have two professional proofreading credits to my name, and as such, may not be sufficiently sensitive to the kinds of subtleties involved in the errors in the text Rufus produces.)

 

[ashibaka]

Originally posted by npetreley
Rufus, you're the last person on earth who should poke fun at grammatical and spelling errors. My 8-year-old puts your writing skills to shame.

Tu quoque!

I think the guy Rufus was responding to is younger than 8 anyway.

 

[Susan]

Here is my argument:

Evolution is a pitiless and merciless system of kill or be killed.
Creation is a merciful and beautiful system of preservation and loving mercy upon a dying world.

 

[Jerry Smith]

Evolution is a pitiless and merciless system of kill or be killed.

Real evolution is a system of reproduce or leave no descendents.

Pity is a feeling in humans, one of evolution's more recent innovations (though similar feelings may exist in other species ?). Pity, love, etc. may also be characters of God, who presumably created the system of evolution that we observe, according to a Christian viewpoint that is amenable to the evidence of nature.

 

[ashibaka]

Originally posted by Susan
Here is my argument:

Evolution is a pitiless and merciless system of kill or be killed.
Creation is a merciful and beautiful system of preservation and loving mercy upon a dying world.

So the one that sounds nicer is always correct? What a beautiful world you must live in!

Here is my argument:

If Osama bin Laden is alive, he is planning to attack us and we must be afraid.
If Osama bin Laden is dead, we can go on with our lives and be happy.

Therefore, bin Laden is dead!