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To: fish hawk
It matters not how many pages of stuff you put up on the screen to impress us all. (no one is going to read it all anyway).

One of the proofs of creation is that there is no evidence for evolution. Another one is that it doesn't matter how many pages of evidence for evolution get posted to impress us all. ("No one is going to read it all anyway.")

102 posted on 08/03/2005 5:14:19 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
"One of the proofs of creation is that there is no evidence for evolution. Another one is that it doesn't matter how many pages of evidence for evolution get posted to impress us all."

Actually, it's that just because one person _thinks_ they have evidence, it does not really mean its evidence. Ultimately, the arguments for Darwinism are metaphysical in nature. It is based on the assumption of scientific materialism

The arguments from homology are especially bad. Every instance of "convergent evolution" is evidence that homology is meaningless in determining ancestry. The whole marsupial/placental convergence speaks against homology as a basis of anything at all.

Then you add in the fact that vertebrates account for only about 1% of the fossil record, and that non-vertebrates show even LESS evidence for evolution than the vertebrates. Oh yeah, and the reason why vertebrates are so useful for showing evolution is that most of them are represented by just a few bones and the rest are simply inferred. Recently they found out they had to redraw the lineage of one of the major groups of dinosaurs because their previous one -- you know, the one with transitional forms -- well, their transitional forms were based off of ONLY TEETH! They had transitional body parts assumed for the entire rest of the organism, but the entire existence of the assumed transitional species was based on teeth! Then this small amount of evidence was removed because they found the actual animal that the teeth belonged to -- a crocodilian species!

So, if you restrict your data to the vertebrates where you can pretend you have whole animals from just a bone or two, which represent 1% of the available evidence, you can show some things that might look to some people who are predisposed to it that you might have an evolutionary transition.

Of course, even then, as much as Darwinists want to paint creationism as being non-science, I'd like to point out that making up hypothetical ancestry charts isn't part of experimental science by the same criteria.

111 posted on 08/03/2005 6:22:14 PM PDT by johnnyb_61820
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