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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Ignorance is bliss. The Achilles' Heel of the Left is their poor aptitude for distinguishing fact from fiction.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
You've never heard of the Gap theory of creation? Google it.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
The religion of Equality is a bit like the religion of Darwinism - it has only one enemy - reality. Restrictions on freedom of speech prevent me from expressing my thoughts about the insane, Marxist delusions of equality that exists in Western civilization. The senseless Loony Left laps up this demented, vacuous rubbish because it massages their egos and makes them feel morally superior.
And from the beginning (Eve in the Garden of Eden), Satan has used the sophistry of equality to deceive and harm mankind. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
In other words, you can't demonstrate that my theology is wrong.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Well, many fossils have been found but they cannot be submitted as evidence for evolution. Here's why:
The fossils that have been discovered so far could represent only the tiniest fraction of the total number of fossils in existence. So our present fossil collection could be so small as to be "statistically insignificant". An election result can't be decided if only 0.01% of the votes have been counted, can it? Furthermore, since there is no way of knowing the total number of fossils in existence, there is no way of knowing when a "statistically significant" number of fossils have been collected. In which case, the fossil record can never be safely used as definitive empirical evidence for evolution. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given."There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe in them" - George Orwell
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Percy writes: My mother was Lutheran, my father Jewish. Hey, I'm part-Jewish too!
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
This is not an argument.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
George Orwell was great. He worked for the BBC (a very left-wing organisation) for two years and later said it "hates intelligence" and described it as "a cross between a girls school and a mental asylum."
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
You are assuming that the same statistical criteria that apply to electronic circuits can be applied to fossils. Maybe they can, I don't know; they they are very different animals.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Well may you speak of "value". The theory that all life on earth evolved from a microbe has contributed nothing to the advancement of science and therefore has no scientific value at all.
--------------------- Darwinism is overflowing with claims that can't be demonstrated. For example, how can it be demonstrated that a piece of a reptile's jaw bone evolved into the bones of the inner ear of a mammal?
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Incidentally, could a pig with wings be fitted into a nested hierarchy?
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
RAZD writes:
What is "happening all around us" that can be used as evidence that all life on earth evolved from a microbe?
We don't need evidence for evolution, we know it is happening all around us As you have seen, all fossils found fall into nested hierarchies, all fossils found can be explained by evolution, including all the intermediate forms.
A story doesn't equal a fact. Edited by Dredge, : No reason given.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
A question re nested hierarchies doesn't belong in this thread, so I posed the same question in a more appropriate thread.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Well, you have raised some very disturbing points that need to be discussed with the scientists of the world. However, I'm not sure if the principles of gravity and chemistry, etc can be compared to fossils.
Meanwhile, please consider this: If evolution has been progressing for at least three billion years, then there might be at least three billion fossils in existence (this is a very conservative estimate - only one fossil formed on earth per year). If we have collected one million fossils so far, this might represent only 0.033% of all fossils, which is hardly a statistically significant sample size. Imagine how stupid it would be for a politician to claim victory after only 0.033% of the votes had been counted. He would be laughed at and ridiculed and called a fool. So embarrassment. Plus, there is the situation alluded to by Mr. Percy - that creatures that inhabit low-lying areas are much more likely to be fossilized than creatures that don't. And I dare say birds are much less likely to fossilized than non-birds. Indeed, the majority of fossils discovered are marine creatures. So these factors further detract from the statistical worth of the fossil collection.
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Dredge Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Percy writes:
No wonder such surveys are so often wrong! I did also provide you the example of elections, where election surveys query between 1500 and 2000 people regardless of the size of the electorate. Obviously, the bigger the sample size the more likely it is to be accurate, but samples of public opinion are limited by available resources, such as time and money.
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