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To: bray; b_sharp
So where are all the Transitional Fossils laughing boy??

One of my favorite sequences is in The Fossil Record: Evolution or "Scientific Creation" by Clifford A. Cuffey. Be sure to read Section 5 which is about the reptile-to-mammal series.

Notice that there are several articles about evolution on that website. It's run by the people who make money by prospecting for oil and other minerals. If creationism were more accurate than normal geology and paleontology, they'd use it to make even more money. But nobody has ever figured out how to do that.

Morton's Demon - an essay by Glenn Morton explaining some of the psychological problems that creationists have. Why I left Young-earth Creationism is his essay on the subject. He says

But eventually, by 1994 I was through with young-earth creationISM. Nothing that young-earth creationists had taught me about geology turned out to be true. I took a poll of my ICR graduate friends who have worked in the oil industry. I asked them one question.

"From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true? ,"

That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said 'No!' A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, "Wait a minute. There has to be one!" But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either.


175 posted on 08/17/2006 8:11:58 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American; bray
I suspect bray's intent is not to objectively consider the evidence but to violently and emotionally hand wave away anything s/he considers a threat to her/his world view.
298 posted on 08/18/2006 11:57:39 AM PDT by b_sharp (Why bother with a tagline? Even they eventually wear out! (Second Law of Taglines))
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