Posted on 05/13/2004 10:27:11 AM PDT by Junior
It's not as if creationists caught the mistake. Evos made it and evos caught it while following the best data available all the way.
By comparison, let's look at the finding of "walking whale" or feathered dinosaur (or any other transitional) fossils. Evolutionary theory said that all of these things once existed on the Earth and thus many of them would turn up somewhere sooner or later. Creationism not only scoffed at the predictions before they were fulfilled but on purely doctrinaire grounds it can't see the predicted things after they have been found. (It remains a bullet-item in the mantra list that these things don't exist, so by God they don't.)
In other words, an evo can make a mistake. He can also see that he's made a mistake. A creationist can't make a mistake. Apparently, God wouldn't allow it or something. However, creationists are allowed to brazen any instance which might otherwise be embarrassing. I don't see where the creationist approach to facts and data offers any improvement over current methods.
Your claim that we would have cured cancer by now but for science's odd habit of following the currently available best picture of things is interesting. This statement probably cannot be disproven. However, it looks unsupportable. Heck, it looks ridiculous.
Lots of people believe in God. Only a handful of physical scientists believe the Earth is 6000 years old.
If there are no creation scientists then is stands to reason that there is no such thing as creation science, and all the books about Flood theory and such are the work of charlatans.
If there are creation scientists, then their work must necessarily meet the same standards as other scientists and be reiewed in the same way.
I take it to mean they they are being honest. Religious fundamentalists should follow the example.
Viruses aren't alive. They exist in a harsh evironment because the host is there, much like football helmets exist in a football stadium.
You say that authoritatively. However, biolgists are still of two minds on the subject.
Well, then those of the other mind should produce the phylogeny of these "living" viruses rooted in the tree of life.
Pithy, very pithy. I like that.
Okay, how about 10 years from today? Is that soon enough for you?
You and Michael Moore. I'm still waiting for a working "evolutionary" produced cubic function generator. I won't hold my breath.
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You and Michael Moore.
Huh? Your face matches an orangutan's butt? Is that the kind of ingenious, ad hominem thing you meant, but lacked the wit, to say?
I'm still waiting for a working "evolutionary" produced cubic function generator. I won't hold my breath.
Cubic, schmubic. Go ahead, hold your breath. About 10 minutes at the bottom of a lake should do it.
Oh, and my tag line came to mind when I thought about you.
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There, that should about do it. Have I forever discredited all science in your eyes now? Can you get on with your life, such as it is, without spewing more of your ID/IOT bile here? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Naww. Heavens no! You have only proved that my statement was correct in describing you. I've observed kindergarteners with more wit and savvy in their taunts than you in your pitiful "locution". Rave on mad troll.
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