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 ...
Spell check?
More of your typical BS.
We do. That is one of the reasons why the HMS Creation is standing tall, and the HMS Beagle is sinking. The real “bozos” are those who believe that random processes and survival produce super-sophisticated bio-nano machines that merely give the “appearance” of being designed for a purpose. Who knew blind materialist processes could be such masters of illusion!
Let’s face it, the Temple of Darwin has lost its “tree of life”, has lost it’s prediction of “junk” DNA, has lost it’s phylogenetic predictions, is losing uniformitarianism in favor of catastrophism, and let’s not forget that its fortunes have not gotten any better (indeed, they have gotten far worse) in the other areas creation scientists have traditionally pointed to, such as the fossil record, cell complexity, etc, etc.
But don’t worry, the HMS Creation stands ready to rescue you when the call goes out from the HMS Beagle to abandon ship!
Shalom.
Judging by the press reports, it sounds like the Evos are the ones who are starting to panic. Creationists are comfortably sitting back watching the Evos self destruct. Ida is just the latest example of another “missing link” that is going to blow up in the Evos faces. It seems the Evos capacity for destroying their own reputations knows no bounds...which works out very nicely for us :o)
Lucky indeed.
So, is this just another tadpole fossil they named “Ida” to make it seem they are soing something important for all that taxpayers money?
That’s what the study found. Evo-atheists are among the most superstitious people in the population:
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=2667
You call that science? HAHAHAHA!
I’m right with you there. If evo were real, what explains WHY it happened? What caused that little one-celled organism to decide that it needed to split, see, hear, taste, feel, breathe, copulate, etc.?
Right on, NR, and we can use this "Ida" story as a model for our approach.
Wow...talk about integrating your superstitions!
Only once you define belief in things like a worldwide flood, angels, and such as "not superstitious." The study found that 55 percent of the people surveyed said they had been protected from harm by a guardian angel--not just that they had a guardian angel, but that the angel had actually intervened to help them. Seems to me that the distinction between "religion" and "supersition" can get pretty thin, and it's a bias in the study to put some things on one side and some things on the other.
My main test on the intellectual honesty of the creationistas:
How old is the universe?
How old is the solar system?
How old is the Earth?
Is the speed of light a universal constant?
DO you ‘believe’ in nuclear physics?
Its amazing what the evolutionist will call science. There are no limits to what they will call science as long as it hues to an evolutionist end.
As usual, the darwin-drones are way behind the times.
YEC cosmologists hold that distant galaxies are billions of years old, and our galaxy thousands of years old, and yet both owe their existence to the SAME creation event. If you are bewildered, you might want to read up on gravitational time dilation (and read Dr. Humphreys book “Starlight and Time”).
The Evo-big bangers were the ones who proposed that light speed might be variable to solve their own horizon problem re: CMB. Again, you are way behind the times.
You just confirmed my previous estimate of your intellectual capacity. Pretty close to zero.
Answer the questions I asked you!
I noticed that some of those evolutionists who showed up yesterday to make fun of the first article by ICR kind of quieted down when major news articles came out saying the same thing.
Yup, and if anyone points it out, they get attacked by the hissy-fit liberals exclaiming any examination, any ciritique is anti-science religious assaults on their cult.
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