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Author Topic:   Fossil Distribution and Method of Deposition in Geological Layers
JonF
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Message 3 of 20 (194741)
03-26-2005 8:44 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Percy
03-26-2005 5:20 PM


Faith writes:
What I mean by that is that they have no reasonable basis but are sheer imagination...They are established ONLY by imagination...
We're addressing your arguments seriously and on the merits in this thread and not dismissing them as religious myth. It might help if you would accept the arguments from the other side in the same spirit by continuing to argue from the evidence while leaving out the parts that dismiss certain geological views as imagination and speculation.
Advice we all, including myself, should pay more attention to. But my bet is that Faith can't do it; if Faith acknowledges that, e.g. the "geologic column" is based on evidence, then it itself is evidence and can't be ignored. And he/she realizes that the only way to fit it with his/her worldview is to ignore it. That's the way I see it.

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JonF
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Message 13 of 20 (194818)
03-27-2005 11:17 AM
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03-27-2005 12:35 AM


Faith writes:
I'm not so sure that the deeper fossils are all that much more different from modern types than the wooly mammoth, the sabre-toothed tiger or eohippus are different from modern types.
Another example of Faith making something up in order to justify ignoring the facts.

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JonF
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Message 16 of 20 (194927)
03-28-2005 8:56 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by Percy
03-27-2005 9:09 PM


OT: Is Faith unique?
I've been involved in this debate for over 20 years, and I must confess I've never met anyone like Faith
If you have some free time, Talk.origins messages by Zoe Althrop. Zoe seemed to be more interested in learning that Faith, but she was twice as stubborn, just as prone to ignore evidence, and probably less educated. It was Zoe who insisted for months that 5 divided by 0 was 5, and who defined "reliable witness" as "someone who has convinced a lot of people" (my paraphrase, not really a quote), was sure that the 2LoT was a result of the Fall and should be called the "law of Sin and Death", claimed that electricity flowing in a wire is a (low) form of life (we call it a "live wire, don't we?), withstood the efforts of many to explain isochron dating for about two years, and on and on. Faith's a pip, all right, but he/she doesn't yet have the breadth or staying power of a Zoe.
(There are gobs of isochron threads because, whenever she was forced into a corner or thoroughly refuted, she'd modify her original claim slightly and start a new thread).

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