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This one article says squishy not all creationists.

Well, there's the guy who posted it here, who presumably agrees with the characterization; and I know at least one person here has compared the soft tissue to supermarket steaks; so there's three. But

I am a creationist therefore by default I was accused of lying.

I think it's a common form of speech to refer to a group that way--"conservatives came together in tea parties" doesn't mean every single conservative in the country attended one--and it was just an example of why Schweitzer would feel like her work was hijacked. So I think you're overreacting, but I'll be more careful in the future. I know I bristle when all evos are held responsible for everything Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers say.

Enjoying the discussion, keep it coming!

Me too. There've been a couple of stumbles, but on the whole I think we've managed to keep this surprisingly civil.

So let me ask you: what is your favorite evidence for young-earth, one-time creation? I don't mean things evolution can't explain or even things, like the soft tissue, that YEC offers an alternative explanation for. I mean, is there anything that you think points to YEC as the sole possible reason for?

“think it’s a common form of speech to refer to a group that way.... but I’ll be more careful in the future. I know I bristle when all evos are held responsible for everything Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers say.”

I agree. We all do it. I think however if we disagree with the group that we come from we should point it out.

I wasn’t offended or anything. It is hard to tell this on a forum where you type your comments but I am VERY hard to offend. I was just trying to be witty when I said basically that you didn’t have the correct info about the collagen but I wouldn’t accuse you of lying. I really need to use the ;) more so people know to take it light hearted.

Also someone pointed out to me privately that I had been using capitals alot and they thought I was getting too defensive. I really only use capitals to emphasize what word I want stressed in a sentence. I don’t know how to use HTML. I had studied and practiced it at one time but have forgotten all of it. The one time that I meant to YELL using caps was I think with you when you ended up saying sloppy thinking isn’t any clearer the louder it gets. Good come back by the way.
I think cutting humor has a place in debate. I can take it if you can!

Really the only time I get frustrated in these debates is when I am not coming across clearly and because of that my position gets misrepresented. Then it takes several posts to get it corrected like with the taxonomy issue. UGH!

“So let me ask you: what is your favorite evidence for young-earth, one-time creation?”

I will bttt because I don’t have time to give it a decent answer right now. Today is my littlest daughter’s 3rd birthday so I didn’t get my lesson plans done for the week like I usually do on Sunday afternoons. I will have to do it when the kids are in bed which is usually when I get to do most of my posting on FR. I am a night owl, insomniac is more like it but I have to get that under control because I just promised a friend that I would start going to the gym with her at 6am every morning. I didn’t know that the day had to 6 o’clocks in it before this.;)

Have a great rest of the weekend!