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To: Right Wing Professor
The only rebuttal I've heard to this point from evolutionists is "it's true because I observe it", effectively making man the arbiter of truth.

BTW this does NOT apply to evolution, which is taught as fact even though it has never been obeserved, measured, or repeated, despite numerous attempts to force mutations in fruitfly populations and create life in a bowl. Evolution itself as an idea has "evolved" from slow and gradual changes, to rapid ones - which would be nearly impossible to prove, as the changes are rare and rapid. Lamarckianism and recapitulation theories have come and gone. And the strangest thing, to me, is the fact that paleontology serves as the date measuring rod for geological forms, even though the ages of the fossils are at the very best, a guess, based on the unprovable assumption of evolution. Carbon dating only proves useful back to ten-thousand years.

Do you admit that there is great cause for doubt regarding evolutionary theory? It's as though they start with the a priori assumption that "the Bible can't be true because it's a fairy tale", and then go on to attempt to explain reality otherwise, effectively writing a tale of their own.

205 posted on 10/28/2003 10:32:17 AM PST by Lexinom ("No society rises above its idea of God" (unknown))
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To: Lexinom
BTW this does NOT apply to evolution, which is taught as fact even though it has never been obeserved, measured, or repeated

A lie. See post 199.

And the strangest thing, to me, is the fact that paleontology serves as the date measuring rod for geological forms, even though the ages of the fossils are at the very best, a guess, based on the unprovable assumption of evolution.

Another lie. Large numbers of fossils have been dated radiometrically.

Carbon dating only proves useful back to ten-thousand years.

More like 50,000 years; but we have U/Th dating, K/Ar dating, Ar/Ar dating, Rb/Sr dating....

Do you admit that there is great cause for doubt regarding evolutionary theory? I

On the contrary, it's as solid as the second law of thermodynamics and the periodic table.

It's as though they start with the a priori assumption that "the Bible can't be true because it's a fairy tale", and then go on to attempt to explain reality otherwise, effectively writing a tale of their own.

I do science. I'm not interested in the 3000 year old cosmological theories of a small tribe in the middle-east, any more than I'm interested in the hundreds of other alternative creation myths.

214 posted on 10/28/2003 10:57:00 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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