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To: Junior
I never said I had evidence.

And I never expected you to cough up the "new evidence" you mentioned in that silly fantasy of yours.

Obviously the biological community must have, however. Of course,

Then it should be a snap for you to find the "new evidence" that you say popped up between 1988 and 1989.

since it ain't in the Bible, you can simply ignore it.

Ignore what? The "new evidence"? I haven't even seen it yet.

209 posted on 02/12/2003 1:20:43 PM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
So basically, anything the biological community does is "pure fantasy" while anything the creationist community does is "real science." Interesting. When was the last time a creationist actually did any research (other than quote mining)? Creationists don't do research because then they have a tendency to become evolutionists.
210 posted on 02/12/2003 1:34:23 PM PST by Junior (The New World Order stole your tag line)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
And, just in case you don't follow that link, some of the relevant passages contained therein are:

A few years later, creationist biologists Carl Krekeler and William Bloom, who taught creationist biology at the Lutheran Church's Valparaiso University in Indiana, left after concluding that a literal interpretation of Genesis was not supported by any of the available scientific evidence. Krekeler concluded, "The documentation, not only of changes within a lineage such as horses, but of transitions between the classes of vertebrates-- particularly the details of the transition between reptiles and mammals--forced me to abandon thinking of evolution as occurring only within 'kinds'. " (cited in Numbers, 1992, p. 302) Krekeler also criticized the creationist movement for the "dozens of places where half-truths are spoken, where quotations supporting the authors' views are taken from the context of books representing contrary views, and where there is misrepresentation." (cited in Numbers, 1992, p. 303) The two became theistic evolutionists, and later wrote a biology textbook which accepted evolutionary theory.

Perhaps as a result of these defections, the creationist movement no longer finances or carries out any field research of any sort. Its sole method of "scientific research" consists of combing through the published works of evolutionary mechanism theorists to look for quotations which can be pulled out of context and used to bolster creationist beliefs.

If you'd like, I can put it in blue to make it easier to read...

212 posted on 02/12/2003 1:42:23 PM PST by Junior (The New World Order stole your tag line)
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