How the octopus got its smarts

Cosmos Magazine ^ | September 17, 2018

[gundog]

Fossils must really freak you out.

[Tudorfly]

Fossils don’t freak me out at all. Millions of them were made during the great flood, you know, the one that God used to cover the earth during the life of Noah. You really should read and study both the Bible and how it holds up under both scientific and historical scrutiny. Hint: it holds up very, very well.

[gundog]

My fossil remnants of ammonites that lived and died 125 million years ago refute your timeline.

[gundog]

Did the dinosaurs and man coexist in your world? Are many of the creatures known only as fossils now extinct because Noah didn’t round them up and put them on the ark?

[Tudorfly]

How did you determine your timeline for your fossils? Proof?

[Tudorfly]

To your first question, yes. To your second question, I don’t know. I recommend you look up Pastor Paul Veit in Maine. He will be able to help you with additional questions. He can bring you more specific knowledge than I have. He is known as the Dinosaur Pastor.

[gundog]

Geology. From the Greek. Geo- for Earth, and logos, for principle or reason. The latter also has implications in theology. Empirical evidence can be one way that God speaks to us through nature.

[gundog]

I may look it up. Man and dinosaurs coexisted on The Fintstones and in some bad movies and TV. Until “Jurassic Park” comes to pass, that’s all.

[Tudorfly]

Pastor Paul Veit travels and speaks all around the USA, even though he is Maine based. He is very down to earth and full of facts that you would appreciate. Thanks for the conversation. God bless you and your family.

[gundog]

Thank you. It's been my experience that people taking his position start with the Bible as an infallible source and craft selected circumstances to fit the narrative. It's a priori arguementation, whereas science is necessarily a posterioriin nature. I would just leave you with this: the theory of evolution developed with no knowledge of the existence of DNA. We are really only on the threshold of getting a handle on the possibilities inherent in that amazing molecule. Not every hiccup in what we learn is necessarily proof that the theory is untrue. Just that it always need to be looked at with new eyes with every discovery made. May God bless you and yours.