Posted on 06/27/2006 5:06:32 AM PDT by 7thson
But is even one of them named Harold?
The "700 Club" placemark.
It's a common name up there.
Your religion is science. You are willing to accept what others have told you. You wish me to listen to one with more understanding of your religion. There is no difference in yours and any other religion.
Be sure and genuflect when you pass in front of the computer... and give alms to your high priest bill gates!
Every aspect of radiocarbon dating presumes certain things and assumes others. I have a good enough understanding to know when not to buy the snake oil! Your science is as exact as the next "discovery"!
If your understanding is great enough to outwit thousands of physicists, please share some of it with us.
In response to a central question of yours:
Is there some specific phenomenon that seems to require something outside the current theory? Perhaps not. But to me that isn't necessarily a reason to stop looking.
Let me define my position. I'm a Christian, but I don't think God would have left his fingerprints on anything, a nice "Made by God" copyright on the DNA would mess with free will. I also think that setting up the natural system we have is extraordinary enough for me without looking for additional "magic".
My questions about evolution rest on what I find to be extraordinary statistics regarding the actual strength of competitive advantage to bring about certain changes, especially in animals that have a very low reproduction rate. Bottom line, if an animal only procreates 20 times during its life, a 1% advantage gives no real useful benefit. It takes five generations for the trait to statistically gain advantage, but it is more likely that the trait would regress. And a 1% advantage seems a bit high when talking about extremely minute changes. There is also the question of why things would appear to evolve along a lineal track when the environment is also evolving and the climate ripping back and forth from ice age to ice age.
So I wonder if some of the evolution we see isn't really that advantageous. Namely that many mutations just happen and progress and species adapt. Competitive advantage being more like kids bumpers on a bowling ally.
"Not even a retarded gradeschooler could have been so confused as to mistake that for my taking issue with your trivial observation that one can't recreate a million years of evolution "in the lab"."
Actually you have to be so highly educated that you can't think anymore to have missed what I said. I specifically mentioned duplicating some of Coyoteman's skull finds and you said that it had been done. Duh.
" I even sent you to a link that explains the fallacies in your misconceptions to you."
No, your link was absurd and I easily refuted the points it made.
" No, obviously, you didn't [read the link]"
Uhm, you aren't aware of what was in your link. Go back and read your link again. I specifically responded to what it said about O.J. If I hadn't read it then I wouldn't have been able to respond to that, would I? Please try and keep up with the conversation. I'll try typing slower if you think that might help.
" It always has been of that nature, son"
Don't call me 'son'. You know nothing about me. That's merely more of your trying to be condescending. But that's all you have left since your arguments are so empty. Science hasn't always been about conjecture, it used to be based on repeatable observations.
You guys are in the Al Gore Environmentalist Global Warming psuedo-science wing of the scientific community. You come up with conclusions based on conjecture and goofy hypotheses and use rationalizations like "beyond a reasonable doubt" to describe things that are far from it.
You stated that radiocarbon dating is based on assumptions, implying that it is untrustworthy. I challenged you on that statement and all I got in return is details of your religious beliefs.
I think we have established that your distrust of radiocarbon dating comes from your religious belief, and not from any scientific understanding of the subject.
BUMP
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