Posted on 05/21/2009 10:38:06 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
So-called “missing link” Ida hit the media in a major way on Monday of this week, with even search engine Google falling prey to the hype and modifying its search page banner to show Ida. We quickly responded with a full article, Ida: the Missing Link at Last?
Yet within a few hours of the unveiling of the fossil—coordinated to coincide with the publication of the scientific paper on Ida—some better media outlets began to report some worrying things about the research. It seems as though the scientific process had been rushed and the claims exaggerated in a bid to promote a new documentary and book on the fossil. Sadly, media pressures sometimes trump full research integrity (something we’ve seen before), and careless media sources reprint explosive (and unjustified) quotations without consulting as many scientists as they should. Thankfully, though, many in the scientific community are questioning the research and beginning to become more vocal about their concerns regarding how good science and media aren’t the best mix.
But don’t just take our word for it—read these amazing excerpts that reveal the Ida hype for what it truly is...
(Excerpt) Read more at answersingenesis.org ...
>>Actually, it’s enough for me that you admit that Evo-atheists are among the most superstitious people in the country...to include, of course, their religious committment to darwood’s materialist creation myth.
I said no such thing, I see your reading comprehension is as bad as your grasp of science.
==Then why do you have such a bad grasp of science?
Are you talking to yourself again fdumb? That’s the only way your statement makes sense.
==And if YOU are an example of a Christian, most people would run away from Christianity.
There you go again. If I saw your reflection in the mirror, I would probably run away too d:op
“I know you are what am I?” That’s what you got?
Res ipsa loquater my friends.
According to that Baylor study, only 4 percent of Americans are atheists. That's a lot lower than the number who accept evolution, so why don't you knock off the "eve-atheist" cr@p?
Also, I can't find the percentage of (that tiny fraction of) atheists who say they believe in superstitions--I guess it's somewhere in the full report, which doesn't seem to be available online. I do see that 18% of born again, 17% of fundamentalist, and 23% of Bible-believing respondents believe in the occult and paranormal--pretty healthy chunks, seems to me.
Further, related to my point in my earlier post, without access to the poll questions, we don't know who defined "occult and paranormal." If you believe a supernatural force protects you, an atheist or not-particularly-religious person would likely call that a belief in the occult, while a fundamentalist Christian would call it an angel. Same belief, but one gets put down as "belief in the occult" and the other doesn't.
You wouldn't think so, but there seems no shortage of conspiracy theories claiming otherwise
They are about Science. It's a test to see if the questionee is prepared to acknowledge whether scientists can find out about stuff without needing to accommodate the findings to a 2800 year old book, as interpreted by semi-educated American evangelists like Ellen G White.
What, you don’t recognize your own reflection talking. Things are much worse than I thought!
I believe you’ve misinterpreted my answer. I’m not sure how the earth came to be let alone how the universe or the solar systems came to be, scientists dang sure can’t convince me they know and people of faith dang sure can’t convince me they know, but one thing we all seem to agree on is something beyond our knowledge created it all. With that said the simplest answer I can come up with would to give that something a name, and the name GOD work’s for me and God’s method of creation can be viewed in many different way’s, with all of them being correct in the eye’s of the viewer.
Which dictionary are you using to find those ‘definitions’?
Watching a liberal melt in the kitchen floor ‘cause they can’t take the heat?
PRICELESS!
Kimodo dragon got nuthin’ on tpanther, eh?
Way to blow off what I said. Your implication that "Evos" are atheists is a lie. Liar.
I didn’t say all Evos. I said Evo-atheists. Learn how to read.
Chill, dude. You're being played. If you get mad, he gets what he wants.
Uh-oh, we better play nice, the hall monitor is here—and he means business!
It’s been a big week for science. They also found out that what looks like just a bad case of nasty mouth turns out to be a well developed venom delivery system.
Am I spoiling your fun?
Depends one what you mean by a big week for science. Of course, all legitimate scientific discoveries bring glory to God by learning something new about His special creation. Amen? Amen!
Nah...don’t worry, I brought plenty of bug spray.
Indeed. Even when it discovers his special creation can be mean and venomous.
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