Posted on 03/06/2009 8:10:07 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Translation: Ya got no game.
I'll engage in a serious discussion but will not rise to the bait of ignorance and name calling. Besides, this was an A - B correspondence between the woolly one and me so "C" your way out of it....Oh, snap!
I guess I typically assume they’re just misguided folks who have just believed the default epistemology, or their victims of the zeitgeist, the prince and power of the air. I assume they’re really conservatives in which case, reasonable. So I try to explain to them, using my little pea-sized brain, that those teachers they’ve entertained my not be as authoritative as those teachers professed.
They always have these questions that I typically read as requesting an answer. I guess their questions are really just rhetorical and often bait. “What about light years?” or “what about dinosaurs on the ark” and “How did ‘Moses’ get all those full grown animal of ever species on the ark.”
I’m uncomfortable just flaming these people but.. well, I should probably use my time better either way, flaming or instructing, both are vain.
Why bother actually reading the article? Evolution, and scientific theories like it, are not falsifiable, any more than the existence of God is, thus, how can it be science? We have never observed the development of a new genus in the laboratory, even after 1000's of generations: E.Coli is still E.Coli and fruit flies are still fruit flies. The theory, then, must be flexible, like a reed in the wind, to adapt to any new developments and data that falsifies previously held notions. It is constantly revised, updated and enhanced, for this is the very nature of "science". It's supreme flexibility to acommodate any new data is it's greatest advantage, hence the ToE evolves!
As such, the theory will never die, but is with us until The Day, when it's absurdity will be made obvious when the Rider splits the clouds!
These days, I don’t have enough time to reply to all the usual suspects. I don’t even really have the time to post the original papers and articles, but I made a commitment to myself and to God to try and at least remain faithful to establishing a regular presence of scientists who present the evidence for God’s creation, and against the idea that we are purposeless blobs of randomly generated tissue.
If you had read past the head line you would see the number of posts calling it old news. You get over it!!!
I just wish I had Brian Thomas, M.S.’s job: get up every day, look for science articles about evolution, misunderstand them (intentionally or not), and repackage my misunderstanding for credulous readers. And it seems to be recession-proof!
Case in point: he writes that “despite museum depictions of the extinct ape Australopithecus having fully human feet, fossils show that they had typical ape feet.” But the article he links to in his footnote clearly says the Australopithecus foot may have been flat (no arch), like an ape, but its big toe lined up with the other toes, like modern humans. Is Thomas misunderstanding or misrepresenting?
Please be quiet when the grown-ups are talking.
Lol... 6,000 year old shoes!
Come now. Do you really think it looks like a shoeprint? It's not narrow at the heel like a real human shoe print is. Look at the soles of any shoe in any store. Do they look like this "footprint." It's been completely rebutted.
Do any of these footprints resemble the oblong shape of the "fossil?" No, they don't.
You guys are lucky your not female, you’d be pregnant ALL the time!
Actually, the article does bring up a good point about 3.4 million-year old footprints being anatomically identical to 1.5 million year old footprints.
The reason I point this out is that it’s unusual for an article from ICR not to lie, distort the truth, misinterpret science, or propose wild fantasy theories proving that the earth is 6,000 years old. I’m sure the poor author will have to find another job soon.
Really, the article is actually quite a bit better than most of the crazy stuff posted at that and similar sites. Look for people to quote the respected scientist, Dr. Russell Humphreys, who believes that God created the universe as a big ball of water several light years across. The earth formed at the very center of this ball of water because, as we all know, the Bible says that the earth is at the center of the universe.
Ya, I hate fakes and fabrications!
Piltdown man.
Java Man.
Lucy.
Hahnhfersand Man.
Binshof-Speyer Woman.
Paderborn-Sande Man.
Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis
Haekels faked embryonic drawings
Um, the article is by ICR. It is a review of an article posted in a science journal.
I hate fabrications, too. What’s your point?
You guys are lucky you're not female. There, fixed it for you. Let me guess, public school education?
I'm gonna hafta get heavier test line.
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