Posted on 10/23/2005 12:06:32 AM PDT by GretchenM
The word vestigial, or remnant is relevant here.
...naaah. Too easy
I don't post my degree either, but I do post citations.
Your posts do not stand on their internal logic and have no plce to look to document either the reasoning or the data.
That doesn't work.
" Is there anything that surpasses the faith of a Biblical Literalist?"
There aren't really any bible litteralists because they are all selective in which parts they take literally - there is just too much in the bible that is either archaic (like the rules for selling your daughter into slavery), symbolic 9like the command to take up the serpents or impractical like the dietary rules or the command to "suffer not a witch to live."
I spent most of a half hour on google but could not find any reference to this.
(But I know know more than I ever wanted about the domestication history of chickens.)
"No I am not referring to the four corners of the earth. Credentials are useless in the face of reality. Those who tend to think themselves wise, tend to grant those who think like them credentials."
We have a saying in physics - "necessary but not sufficient."
Putting in the time to read and study the bible is necessary but not sufficient to speak authoritatively about what the bible has to say.
Grounding in basic scientific principles is necessary but not sufficient to argue effectively about science.
Often I'll use the term "Genesis literalist" since that seems, as you pointed out, to be the only part of the Bible that is actually taken literally by Creationists.
25% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. (Source National Science Foundation, 2001)
False Assumptions of Radio Carbon dating
excerpt: With regards potassium argon dating of recent volcanic eruption material it must be pointed out that such material from Mt. St. Helens eruptions of the 1980's gave very old ages in the range of 300,000 to 2.7 million years. This is not only so for Mt. St. Helens but also for modern volcanism in Hawaii and New Zealand. It's then logical to ask the question, if you can not get the age right for modern volcanism how can you get a correct age for unknown magma such as that in Africa, from where our alleged ancestors came?
Now if you are truly interested in the subject, you will enjoy these sites. If you are just a priest saying a mantra, you will hate them.
Know what I hate? Doing research for people who refuse to learn so they can piss on the results and the researcher.
"25% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. (Source National Science Foundation, 2001)"
Hey, if it makes them feel good, who are we to say they are wrong? I mean, it's only right that we consider all points of view in an educational setting. The the kids decide what is right and wrong. Teach the controversy!
(/blindingly stupid postmodernist/creationist/whole science mode)
I gagged on that and googled it.
This article:
Intelligent Design
http://d446119.po43.pogotek.com/Resources/contributions/050930_Berman.html
not only convinced me about the science ingnorace but also the malignant nature of ID
We were talking vestigial organs. Or maybe you forgot?
ingnorace =ignorance
I ususally don't correct typos if they don't disturb the meaning, I make too many. But this deservd highlighting. :->
That's why we have private schools.
It's the parents choice what and where they want there kids taught, not religious fanatics.
That is why teaching ID in public school is not O.K. If parents want this then go to Catholic school or the like.
Teach your children well.
It also would have drastically reduced the radiation from the sun and space, throwing off radio carbon dating world wide!
A near miss by an asteroid, or even a capture event could have unbalanced the entire structure and caused the ice rings to tumble into the gravity center. But this is the kicker, the ice would have come in at the poles, if it was super cooled, not the equator. Ice thickness tests of the polar caps show that the ice thickness is centered around the Magnetic Poles not the true poles. This clearly indicates that the Ice caps are not a weather phenomena, but a space borne phenomena! In other words, the Ice Age may be a one time event, and global warming is caused by Ice melting. Gasp, the world gets warmer when Ice melts, go figure.
Not politically correct science, but science none the less. And FUN! I love science.
My mistake; we were talking about vestigial organs about which you have not answered my assertions, but I also chimed in on your claim that scientists have dated elephant bones from modern specimens and egg shells of modern birds as being 100,000 old.
We are still waiting for any evidence of this. Please post a citation or move on.
That is why teaching ID in public school is required by law, because force collecting taxes to teach your religion by the state is an illegal violation of the separation of Church and State. If you want to teach Darwinism, pay for it yourself. Till then, teach all things that can be aruged intelegently and let the kids choose. Anything else is political or religious indoctrination.
On a level playing field, Creation Science holds its own, that is why Darwin based Humanists are so afraid of it.
Obviously we have moved on. See 137.
I, for one, am clearly not qualified to deal with such brilliance, covering so many diverse fields.
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