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To: albionin

What can you give me many examples of?

If you are not a scientist, then why do you take what scientists say as dogma instead of examining what they put forth as “examples” or “proof” (the latter word not applicable to anything except scientific laws)?


83 posted on 08/28/2012 5:54:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Why is my belief in the scientific method dogmatic but belief in the book of Genesis is rational? I don’t say that the scientific method is perfect but I do believe that reason is man’s only way of gaining knowledge.

One example of a transitional fossil is the recent discovery of several whale species with legs instead of flippers and some with half leg/ half flipper appendages that lived in a shallow sea in the area that is now the eastern Mediterranean. The Fossil record records several intermediate stages of a land mammal returning to the sea and evolving flippers. Now there is your transition stage evidence.

How many examples would it take before you recognized the evidence as legitimate? I agree that there are large gaps in the fossil records and that is why I don’t believe in evolution as the only mechanism at work. I do believe the universe was created with conscious intent. You have whole new types of animals suddenly appearing in the fossil record that can’t be explained by slow evolution.

On the other hand the idea that the Earth is only several thousand years old is absurd, in my opinion.


92 posted on 08/28/2012 7:41:15 PM PDT by albionin (A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
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