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Now you should have some sense of why those of us actually interested in filling high-level holes in this theory from a skeptical perspective are rarely converted by elitist egg-heads.

About once a week, our local paper prints a letter that usually goes something like this

I am a Registered Republican who proudly voted for Ronald Reagan/Dwight Eisenhower/Teddy Roosevelt. However, the recent actions of George W. Bush/Bill Frist/Ted Nugent in riding rough-shod over our Bill of Rights/Right to Privacy/Precious Bodily Fluids have convinced me that the GOP is now a shadow of its former self/nest of vipers/cabal of Satan-worshipping aliens. I am marching right down to my Town Clerk and registering as a Democrat/registering as a Green/marrying my dog.

Of course, nobody but a gosh-darned fool would ever believe this person was ever an actual registered Republican. It's just that some people think it's more convincing to pretend you have an open mind and have been led to your present position by the evidence.

I would suggest you smart people get you stories straight so those of us interested don't have to keep pointing out the contradiction

Feel free to start anytime, oh great skeptic.

OK, thanks for asking.

Your buddy Vade pointed out to me that we a have fossil record that points to a single ancestor that arose from the goo see post #207. He even sent me a cute chart showing life as we know it started 4 billion years ago. Yet, I've seen you post several times if I'm not mistaken that Darwin never said we have a single ancestor. Is that what Darwinists believe or is that just what Darwin didn't say.

Then I have another poster saying no, it's 600,000 million years. And asks "do you know what 600,000 million years is?"

I have another smart guy refer me places to prove his contention that life began from the goo. He sends me to Urey-Miller. When I find a condensed version I get, they set up some test tubes that when sparked by extremely high doses of electricity produced some different forms of carbon based goo. It goes on to state that this might or may mean that life began from goo.

I have more, but this is a good start. Can you see all the issues here? Do all EVOS believe we all evolved from a single ancestor or don't they? And if we have groups of scientists with diverging "opinions" then how can a lay person believe either?

Now don't go on as you have in other posts about how you don't have time to teach me grade school chemistry yada yada yada. I don't want to be a microbiologist or a chemist. If you can't give me a general explanation then give me the standard "you're to dumb to understand" response and I'll move on. I would think that if those of you in these threads are as smart as you appear, that you could answer plainly and logically some of the questions we ask without calling us names, ignorant, lazy learners or trying to put us in box and dismiss us as zealots or maybe counters. When you do that you give credence to the "your belief ain't no better than my belief crowd". If you really wanted us to learn, you would find a way to teach us.