I know this may sound childish - and if so, I guess I have yet to evolve into an adult - but how much time have you spent looking at the fossil record? For that matter, who on FR has spent the most time looking at the fossil record?
You said: I know this may sound childish - and if so, I guess I have yet to evolve into an adult - but how much time have you spent looking at the fossil record? For that matter, who on FR has spent the most time looking at the fossil record?
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Very good observation. This is a tactic usually associated with Jack Murtha and abortion supporters. One is not entitled to an opinion unless one has fought in a war (and even then Bob Dole was not allowed to have an opinion be heard) or are a woman who might be faced with an unwanted pregnancy. I reject this sort of tactic as irrelevant. If Coulter is wrong about her references to the fossil record, point that out, but the truth of one's statements/opinions does not rest on whether one has personally reviewed the fossil record.
No idea about the most time among the FRers, but I did six years of grad school, half in evolution, fossil man and related subjects.