Secondary Addiction Part III: Ann Coulter on Evolution

Talk Reason ^ | James Downard

[Junior]

Following her discussion of dinosaurs examined in Part II of this series, Coulter (2006, 219) ventured this:

For over a hundred years, evolutionists proudly pointed to the same sad birdlike animal, Archaeopteryx, as their lone transitional fossil linking dinosaurs and birds. Discovered a few years after Darwin published The Origin of Species, Archaeopteryx was instantly hailed as the transitional species that proved Darwin's theory. This unfortunate creature had wings, feathers, teeth, claws, and a long, bony tail. If it flew at all, it didn't fly very well. Alas, it is now agreed that poor Archaeopteryx is no relation of modern birds. It's just a dead end. It transitioned to nothing.

But could Archaeopteryx be our one example of bad mutations eliminated by natural selection? Archaeopteryx can't fill that role either, because it seems to have no predecessors. The fossils that look like Archaeopteryx lived millions of years after Archaeopteryx, and the fossils that preceded Archaeopteryx look nothing at all like it. The bizarre bird is just an odd creation that came out of nowhere and went nowhere, much like Air America Radio.

Where should one begin with this?

[Junior]

You know, I did find some other data on Ruben and archaeopteryx -- but it doesn't appear to support your position...

[js1138]

She's too smart to be this ignorant.

Smart has nothing to do with ignorant. She got her stuff on evolution from Dembski, who promised to back her up.

So far he has refused to answer criticism of the book.

[gondramB]

>>Smart has nothing to do with ignorant. She got her stuff on evolution from Dembski, who promised to back her up.<<

She's too smart to believe what she is saying is what I was saying - I think her anti-evolution stand is strategic.

[subterfuge]

Good grief I hate evo threads. I'm out...

[js1138]

I think her anti-evolution stand is strategic.

I abandoned my father's political party 35 years ago because it embraced hippdippy new age anti-intellectualism. For a while now the Republicans have been the party with ideas. They are blowing it to smithereens.

[atlaw]

I think her anti-evolution stand is strategic.

If by that you mean "is to sell books," I agree.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Good grief I hate evo threads. I'm out..."

Why did you even bother getting into the thread in the first place? Nobody forced you to post here.

[subterfuge]

Why did you even bother getting into the thread in the first place? Nobody forced you to post here.

Ann Coulter threads always lure me in my friend. I see your point though. What kind of axe are you slingin'?

[EveningStar]

As an evolutionist myself, I'd like to caution some of my fellow evolutionists:

You do not advance your credibility by posting on anti-FReeper sites.

[Ichneumon]

nothing more need be said, it was a bird, a true bird, a real bird, and it died a bird.....unless you use the evolutionism's window dressing to force it into something it never was.....and we all know that is what happens with just about every fossil find.....

You clearly didn't read the article before you spouted off. A closed mind gathers no thought, eh?

[Ichneumon]

As an evolutionist myself, I'd like to caution some of my fellow evolutionists: You do not advance your credibility by posting on anti-FReeper sites.

And this has what to do with the article that started this thread? Oh, right, nothing whatsoever.

[Ichneumon]

She's too smart to be this ignorant.

Apparently not.

[phantomworker]

Sounds like Dembski is a Christian Scientist? That speaks volumes right there.

Christian? Science? Ann, putting the two words together does not make a christian who is a scientist. ROFL!!!

[EveningStar]

It goes to motive and credibility. BTW, I am NOT referring to Darwin Central.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"I see your point though."

You're still here? :)

[Junior]

BTW, I am NOT referring to Darwin Central.

Which is most definitely not an anti-FR site (it's in the by-laws, or something...).

[Coyoteman]

what would anyone want a transitional fossil to look like? show me the partial wing and the partial leg, show me the partial feather and partial scale.

show me the partial avian lung and the partial dino/reptile lung

show me the partial dino/reptile brain and the avian brain area.

Show me someone who has no clue what a transitional is.

Whoops. Too late!

[subterfuge]

You're still here? :)

Nope!

[phantomworker]

She's too smart to believe what she is saying is what I was saying - I think her anti-evolution stand is strategic.

Yes. Of course. It is obviously drawing the far religious right, who might normally be less trashy and "out there" to her side. It's also restoring her ultraconservative image that is being lost with all her chutzpah and MSM pandering.

[ToryHeartland]

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