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Newly discovered fossil could prove a problem for creationists
Washington Post ^ | November 5, 2014 | Rachel Feltman

Posted on 11/07/2014 2:43:53 PM PST by Alter Kaker

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To: DonaldC

No matter. What ever entity we came from, we still have to eventually face the creator. Believe it or not

Problem?

No problem matches that one


41 posted on 11/07/2014 3:10:33 PM PST by stanne
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To: PeteB570

If one of God’s creation days equals one billion years to us, then how long do you suppose it will take Him to create a new heaven and a new earth as promised in Revelation? Where was evolution in the resurrection or any of Jesus’ miracles or the Apostles miracles. In the miracles in the OT?

If God will raise the living and dead, how will evolution factor in? It seems to me that God either transcends the laws of nature, as their Creator, or He is bound by them, in which case all of the above would be impossible.


42 posted on 11/07/2014 3:12:10 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: microgood
Scientific questions are never settled.

Got it. So bad air and humors -- not bacteria and viruses -- could cause disease. The Earth could be flat. The Sun could revolve around the Earth, or be pulled by Apollo across the sky. I'm a bit surprised to learn that none of these questions have been settled by science.

43 posted on 11/07/2014 3:12:31 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Hoo haha ha ha! Snort! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! (Wheeze) Ha hee hee hee ha ha!


44 posted on 11/07/2014 3:12:44 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: Morpheus2009

Evolution is observable. I don’t have a problem with that at all. But to listen to the theories of evolutionists is to make creationists look sane in comparison.

The whole thing is one flight of fantasy.

No life has ever been found on a meteorite, but the theory still remains, one came here with life on it, or lightening sparked life in a pool of water.

LMAO, that’s more rational than belief in a supreme being?

Wow.


45 posted on 11/07/2014 3:13:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: Blueflag
I will ask you this: when the first fertile human ‘evolved’, with a genome different from its parents (different species) what did it mate with?

All offspring have different genes from their parents. In history there has not been one child with the same genome as its parents. Genomes don't change overnight. They evolve over time.

46 posted on 11/07/2014 3:14:49 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Boy, she’s an “Ickyosaur” if I ever saw one!


47 posted on 11/07/2014 3:15:53 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: Blueflag

That’s a good point. Even moreso is how inorganic raw elements can become the complex molecular structure of living organisms. It’s an absurd stretch. Incredibly improbable. I came up with a better understanding of this through organic chemistry, a topic I believe that you are quite familiar with. Even in Organic Chemistry, you don’t just expect complex organic molecules to form. Instead, you run a strictly controlled procedure to form the substance. Given what it takes to form polymers, it would take a whole lot more to form living organisms, even basic ones, from the elements or simple compounds. Expecting spontaneous formation, gets even more crazy.


48 posted on 11/07/2014 3:16:15 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Alter Kaker

But if he was looking for a mate, the improbability is still a real stretch.


49 posted on 11/07/2014 3:17:38 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

“...It seems to me that God either transcends the laws of nature, as their Creator, or He is bound by them, in which case all of the above would be impossible....”

I just suppose God does what He wants. If He wants it to play out over a billion of our years or snap his finger and do it now it’s his choice.

After all, He is God.


50 posted on 11/07/2014 3:17:47 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Alter Kaker
That's quite a claim.

Not really. Just a humble observation. There are two things humans seem particularly good at....the arrogance to claim infallibility in knowledge in the very face of vast and inestimable mystery before them and the uncanny ability to corrupt what is good and pure. Only fools think they have it all figured out.

51 posted on 11/07/2014 3:18:01 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: PeteB570

Ok that’s fair enough.


52 posted on 11/07/2014 3:18:40 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Alter Kaker
Homo sapiens : New Latin, from Latin homo man + sapiens wise

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

53 posted on 11/07/2014 3:18:44 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Alter Kaker
Evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Law of Probability and common sense.

9 Scientific Facts Prove the "Theory of Evolution" is False

http://humansarefree.com/2013/12/9-scienctific-facts-prove-theory-of.html

54 posted on 11/07/2014 3:19:18 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Alter Kaker

” Because no matter how much evidence accumulates, they will still find a way to ignore it. The scientific question was settled more than a century ago.”

Baloney.

In this new fossil, is there evidence that there is a biochemical progression of all of the protein, enzyme, and DNA replication pathways from the one organism to the other?


55 posted on 11/07/2014 3:19:33 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The results of forming an extremely complex molecule are far fetched. Organic chemical reactions, whether electricity, combustion, or mixing with other chemicals, we do it with STRICT control and observation over the procedure. The other reality is that chemicals can also revert back. Not impossible, but extremely improbable.


56 posted on 11/07/2014 3:20:55 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: righttackle44
I think God did that. See? No problem.

Amen. And it appears that evolution was one of the tools he used.

57 posted on 11/07/2014 3:21:13 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Alter Kaker

We have vast evidence for evolution. We have observed speciation. The fossil and geologic record supports evolution. Yet there is money to be made in creationism. Text books, lecture circuits, museums, etc. and there is no way the believers will ever turn away. Science is one of the greatest accomplishments of humans but none of it will be even listened to and is constantly ridiculed.

I’m a Christian and I don’t need science to prove my religion. Science can neither prove or disprove God or right and wrong.


58 posted on 11/07/2014 3:22:07 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: Alter Kaker

Living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, living sauropods in the Arkansas-sized Likuala Swamp region of the Congo, and Noah’s ark resting on Mt Ararat and visible during years of minimal sunspot activity pose grave challenges for the General Theory of Evolution...


59 posted on 11/07/2014 3:22:14 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: SVTCobra03

Not neccessarily. Entropy can and often does decrease on a smaller scale. The overall trend in the universe, however, is that entropy increases. So on smaller scales than the entire universe, it can decrease.


60 posted on 11/07/2014 3:23:11 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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