Posted on 12/03/2003 4:53:26 PM PST by Pharmboy
Yes and no, depending upon your definition of a transitional form.
It is not possible to have a transitional form between two species, since a genetic modification is binary. You have either have it, or you do not.
Within a family, each species will be closely related to each other. There, you will find many transitional species between the oldest and more recent along a time-line.
That is like stating that there are no transitional forms between male and female children in a family. Yes, that is very true and factual. However, they do share a common set of parents and are closely related.
As with the difference between male and female, you are one or the other. There are no transitional forms and it would be impossible to find any fossils of them.
This is a joke at so many levels. Level One:
Linked to this thread already:
Source. These are not the only pictures in existence, by the way. What you noisily demand from others, you could have looked into for yourself had you the slightest curiosity to know if there existed evidence against your position. That of course would be a very un-creationist thing to do and you didn't do it. Then, the odds were incredibly against. At the seminars that crank out cookie-cutter cloned mantra-chanters, they teach you to be dragged kicking, screaming, and professing ignorance.
Level two is coming next. It doesn't matter what bones are provided. Your demand is empty, posturing for the lurkers. There are stupid lawyering tricks to make any amount of unwanted bones go away.
The limitations of a Jack Chick education are your problem, really.
To make it even worse, the book goes on to point out that there are (unarguable, in my opinion) similarities between construction of a whale fin and a human hand. Based on this, they conclude that there is no God. Somewhere, between a fact (anatomical similarity) and a conclusion (there is no God) is a leap of logic that I simply could not penetrate.
And here, according to you, is what the book actually said:
Descent with modification is evident in anatomical similarities between species grouped in the same taxonomic category. For example, many of the same skeletal elements make up the forelimbs of humans, cats, whales, bats, and all other mammals, although these appendages have very different functions (figure 22.9). Surely, the best way to build a bat's wing is not also the best way to build whale's flipper. Such anatomical peculiarities make no sense if the structures are uniquely engineered and unrelated."
I have no intention or hope of making you see the point. I merely put the case before the lurkers. I trust them to form their own conclusion. But it is interesting to observe what leaps of logic you are willing to make.
The scientific case against Craterism
1. Meteor craters are not observed to be happening now.
2. Meteor craters have not been observed to happen in the past.
3. Thomas Jefferson said: "Gentlemen, I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven."
4. The odds against a rock falling from the sky in a random fashion and making a crater are astronomical.
5. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits meteor craters.
6. Meteor craters are not mentioned in the bible, and are thus blasphemy.
7. Meteor craters have never been reproduced in the lab, and are thus not scientific.
8. Belief that rocks can fall from the sky promotes hedonism and animalistic, amoral behavior.
9. Craterism is a product of materialism and a naturalistic worldview.
10. Craterism makes no predictions and is untestable; it is therefore not scientific.
11. Craterists point to evidence of micro-cratering, but have no evidence of macro-cratering.
12. Scientists are abandoning craterism because they know it is not supported by evidence.
And, before anybody takes off on T.O., they simply compile and present the real research in biology/paleontogy. You'll see the claim from the mouth-foamers that they're making it all up or something.
The gimmick here is that if science ignores the creationists, that's evidence of conspiracy. However, anyone who bothers to answer the creationists is some kind of Satanist materialist and may be dismissed for bias.
And Piltdown Man, discovered 1912, was a fake. (So true, and it always will be.) And no fossil has been found morphing into anything else. (So true, they all just lay there.)
I've called several down myself in Satanic rituals with the Hillary-Witch. (Note to creationists: the preceding is sarcasm.)
Junior predicted you in advance very well.
Expect to be arguing about "transitionals" unto the end of time ;)
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