Posted on 02/18/2002 4:59:53 AM PST by cracker
AnswersInGenesis forgot to list the Sergeant Schulz "I see nos-SINK!" argument.
You are very good at insults, but not good at proving them. Exactly which points mentioned there have I mentioned here? None that I can see. In fact, I have explicitly avoided many of the mistakes mentioned there.
You are so determined to remain in the dark. Pasteur did not test what you creationists call "abiogenesis." He tested his theory that bacteria were responsible for what, back then, ignorant people called "spontaneous generation." Didn't you read the article? (No, of course you didn't.) People used to believe that rats spontaneously appeared in old underwear! Although the creationist websites use Pasteur as one of their favorite talking points, his work had nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to do with your boogyman of abiogenesis. For once in your strange career in these threads, try to learn something. It won't hurt you.
Have you avoided them all or haven't you?
Hows about: ‘Natural selection as tautology’ ; ‘Evolution is just a theory.’ ; ‘Creationists believe in microevolution but not macroevolution.’
I got a tingle on ‘Archaeopteryx is a fraud’ too but won't swear up front that it was you on that one.
Still waiting for you to source this or back off. It's wrong.
Your prise is a 3-week ocean cruise, locked up in a cabin with f.Christian and g3k as your sole source of conversation.
On earth, lightning removes oxygen from the air by combining it with nitrogen.
If your faith is strong, you won't have to try and prove anything to anyone. I have no compulsion to try to do something like that. Science is science. Faith is faith. Why would you degrade your relationship with God by trying to define it as anything else?
Your appendix. The hips and vestigal legs of modern whales. Mutation-Natural Selection explains these in a straightforward manner. No other theory does.
Not to mention all the oxygen it removes by starting fires. I further believe that lightning seldom if ever penetrates into bodies of water or otherwise does electrolysis. Falling water is not grounded and grounded water is outside the current flow, which is from the highly charged surface and the oppositely charged cloud region.
We can be sure that there was little oxygen in the atmosphere on earth until life got started, notwithstanding all the lightning. All the banded iron formations date from before the oxygen levels of the atmosphere rose. They couldn't form and haven't formed since.
Very good. But then what should be the constituents of a lifeless atmosphere, where liquid water is present along with lightning and of course a sun?
No, that is not what I am saying. When a replica is used, one should state what it is. It is then up to the person judging the validity of the argument whether to accept the item as evidence or not. When a replica is presented as evidence and not so designated it speaks about the presenter, either the presenter has been duped, has not checked his/her source, or is plain lying. Pick one.
God did it. We haven't figured out how. As you all like to point out, the evidence has been destroyed.
Without evidence, as you know, "God did it" is an article of faith, not a theory. But I think there's plenty of evidence lying around as to how it was done. More than enough to support the theory of evolution. (And no evidence for any other theory.)
You'd think that's bullet-proof enough to handle abiogenesis, the Big Bang . . . Anything! Maybe God made the Big Bang so perfect He hasn't needed to intervene since.
Somebody (at the Washington Times, IIRC) wrote that Ed Asner may or may not be a proveable communist, but when Castro moves in this country, Ed Asner runs out in front and knocks people down. You block for gore3000, Babylon, the loony anti-science crowd.
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