regardless of kurt wise and his quote (keeping in mind you are agreeing with someone who is a YEC) what i said is true.
we have differing starting points to kick off the research.
folks like you see a fossil and ALREADY DENYING THE REALITY OF GOD, start off with whatever you can to prove the fossil is a step in a evolutionary chain.
folks like me see a fossil and REALIZING THE TRUTH OF THE LIVING GOD AND HIS WORD, start off with evidence that points us to the YEC position.
no one is being ignorant of the scientific method, especially those creation scientists who’s research points to YEC as well.
again, Wise is referring to taking science in a vaccuum, void of God, and sure enough, you end up with billions of years...no kidding...
the insistance of using the quote from kurt wise, while leaving out how he COMBINES THE TWO, of science and his belief in God, note the following from kurt himself:
My favourite evidence for creation!’
Assistant Professor of Science, Department of Mathematics and Natural Science, Bryan College, Dayton, Tennessee.
The evidence from Scripture is by far the best evidence for creation. No better evidence can be imagined than that provided from Him who is not only the only eyewitness observer, but who also is the embodiment of all truth. All Christians should be content in His claims for creation. There are those, however, who reject the authority of the Scriptures.
I believe that the best extra-biblical evidence for creation would come from the design of organisms past and present. The schizochroal compound eye of the trilobite (a horseshoe crab-like organism of the past), for examp le, contains the only known lens in the biological world which corrects for focusing problems that result from using non-flexible lenses. The designs of the schizochroal lenses, in fact, are the very same designs that man himself has developed to correct for the same problems. Furthermore, the design of the schizochroal eye combines this optimum focusing capability with the optimum sensitivity to motion provided by the compound eye as well as the stereoscopic (3-D) vision provided by closely spaced eyes.
The design of the schizochroal eye makes it unique among eyes; perhaps even to the point of being the best optical system known in the biological world. This design, in fact, seems to far exceed the needs of the trilobite. The origin of the design of the schizochroal eye is not understood by means of any known natural cause. Rather, it is best understood as being due to an intelligent (design-creating) cause, through a process involving remarkably high manipulative ability. Among available hypotheses, creation by God is the most reasonable hypothesis for the origin of the complexity of the trilobite’s schizochroal eye.
(Dr. Wise’s doctoral degree in palaeontology was completed at Harvard under Professor Stephen Jay Gould. See also his Interview in Creation magazine.)
‘My favourite evidence for creation!’, Creation Ex Nihilo, Sept.-Nov. 1989, Vol. 11 No. 4, p. 29
So were fossils sprinkled around by God as — well — tricks or practical jokes?