[js1138]

We on the evo side do actually argue points and correct each other on minor issues. We tend to agree on the major stuff.

Just for the record, here's some "major stuff"

1. Age of the universe: >12 billion years
2. Age of the earth: approximately 4.5 billion years
3. Time since first life on earth: >3.2 billion years
4. All known life on earth descended from a common ancestral population.
5. Primary process of change from common ancestry: stochastic variation and natural selection.
6. Lines of evidence:
   • Radiometric dating
   • Cosmological dating
   • Geologic column
   • Fossil record embedded in geologic column
   • Molecular biology/DNA derived lineage
   • Observation of mutation processes
   • Observation of selection
   • Observation of ring species
   • Observation of geographical distribution of varieties.
   • Observation of selective breeding
   • Observation of "Malthusian" overproduction of offspring.
   • Failure, after a century and a half of looking, to demonstrate any evidence of a correlation between mutation and selective advantage.

[Elsie]

All known life on earth descended from a common ancestral population.

WHAT???

It's NOT descended from 'a common ancestral' THING??

[VadeRetro]

Exactly so. Points of agreement among creation-ID posters:

1) Goddidit, somehow.
2) Evolution didn't, nohow.

[furball4paws]

You see, you see. js is wrong.

There in #3 - it's closer to 3.7 billion. Hah! and we don't correct each other. Hah!