Posted on 04/21/2005 4:34:42 AM PDT by gobucks
The bear-dog. Hmmm.
How many fossil remains are there, where are they, and did they retain a heartiness that would allow for varieties ranging from poodle-ish to pit bull-ish as it has been with the canine? IOW, how much of the information on your link has been substantiated by solid evidence and how much of it is conjecture?
10. The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown, inventor of the Da Vinci Code, is a Creationist? You should stop believing everything you hear.
You're claim is that cats and dogs share a common ancestor. I'm just pointing out that is a statement of faith.
Oh, that is a good question.
"poodle-ish to pit bull-ish" canine sub-species have separated from wolves in the last few milennia - evet Creationists agree on that. Wolves appeared 6 million years ago. Beardogs were 30 million years ago.
Where did the capacity for such genetic variation come from? Has any human been able to create any of these critters without using intelligence or design?
While we're at it, let's trace the tree back from bear-dog to its next predecessor, and then all the way back to the earliest possible ancestor, and do so with the aid empirical evidence as opposed to a static record subject to fanciful interpretations. Those trees from amoeba to man are so fascinating. Mother Goose would be proud.
I understand your point better than you understand it. Geological phenomena, unlike macro-evolution, is testable.
Which is, if you're really that thick, that your rules of not believeing anything that is not repeatable, and testable preclude you from believing lots of things that a reasonable person should be able to conclude based on the evidence we do have.
You see you don't even understand your point. You can believe things for whatever reason. In fact, it is pefectly reasonable to believe things that are not testable although in that case you are expressing faith not science.
Was there a previous volcanic eruption at Yellowstone? It's not unreasonable to think so. There is volcanic activity such as geysers and earthquakes there and its geology matches areas where known eruptions have occured.
Now, why do you think evolution has occurred? Do you see "evolutionary activity" in creatures that are about to evolve? Has evolution been observed to provide physical benchmarks with which we can compare past events?
What you seem to want is something declared objectively true without being able to test it -- basically a religious dogma although even dogmas can be tested.
And obviously I'm referring to macro-evolutionary activity.
The more their theories are disproven, the 'deeper' the time has to be to hide the truth of the fraud.
WE were created, and these guys just evolved..........which explains why we're so much smarter than they are. ;)
"Deep time" is the evolutionists' answer to Goddidit. It is an arbitrary assumption anyone can make but is beyond the realm of empirical test.
I can understand interpreting evidence through the prism of naturalism. It is an easy matter to dismiss divine intervention through reason. What I cannot understand is why such an interpretation must be given sole reign where education is concerned and be allowed to retain a credibility related to science.
:-)
Let me take that one step further, and say that if BMCDA truly believes that, then he believes in miracles.
In fact the whole of macro evolution is believing one miracle after another. It is an amazing step of faith to believe in evolution.
Think they'll know it was a joke, or am I going to get some angry replies from that? :o)
If evolution is true, it's a miracle.
And yet, evolutionists are obstinate that they speak on the basis of evidence, and creationists on the basis of faith.
I, too, agree that evolutionary theory should be taught in schools, but it needs to be taught honestly.......as a philosophy based on deductions and not science based on empirical evidence.
I personally believe that at some point in the future, the theory is going to get so ridiculous that it might happen.
I don't know. I got flamed on some posts when I wasn't expecting it.
Unfortunately, it requires a fully developed brain to talk, so which came first, and how did it occur?
However they try to explain it, it's a miracle. The irony of it, is that the evolutionary theory was developed to explain the origins of earth and man without God, or the miraculous, and the system they fabricated requires miracle after miracle in order to explain it.
I guess they failed, eh?
Speaking of miracles, have you heard about the Law of Gravity?
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