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To: furball4paws

Fossils show that something was once alive and now is dead. Placing them in a certain order to support your point of view is man's idea. Talk about making the data fit your theory.


150 posted on 09/26/2005 10:08:36 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

You have the whole thing ass backwards.

The data come first, then the theory is promulgated to explain the data. The data don't explain the theory. Try a science class.


154 posted on 09/26/2005 10:10:50 AM PDT by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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To: metmom
Fossils show that something was once alive and now is dead. Placing them in a certain order to support your point of view is man's idea. Talk about making the data fit your theory.

What a bunch of flapdoodle!

178 posted on 09/26/2005 10:34:33 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: metmom
Placing them in a certain order to support your point of view is man's idea. Talk about making the data fit your theory.

Perhaps you should try to understand the evidence before criticising a bizarre cartoon version of how scientists treat fossils. Do you really think people who spend their lives on this are that stupid?

186 posted on 09/26/2005 10:48:29 AM PDT by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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