Sorry to get in the middle of your very uninteresting debate here that's been gone over for so many freaking times on these boards, but I have to correct some things.
Hangdawg13 writes:
Today, not very often.
This is your response to Jar's question about how often do you think fossilization occur. While this statement is technically correct, it is misleading. Fossilization had never been occuring "often" enough for us to possibly watch the event happening. For example, the dodo once existed, yet there is absolutely no existing dodo fossil to be found. The only reason we know they once existed is because of one single stuffed dodo head and dozens of records by past mariners.
Fossilization has always occured very very rarely. It's a miracle (figure of speech) that we have as many as we do.
In a global flood perhaps a little more often.
Would you like to explain this (and I'm assuming) educated guess?
We get floods all the time all around the world these days. We occasionally get really big ones that kill hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people. Yet, there hasn't been a single case of fossilization on record. So, I'm wondering what you have to offer for our educated guess.
But hey... If you've got billions of years on your hands anything is possible eh? The point is we don't really know, therefore the fact that we find these fossils is not proof of evolution.
Again, the statement is technically true but misleading. The theory of evolution can never be "proven". I really don't know how many times I have to repeat this on the boards for people to realize this well-known, but apparently not so well-known, fact.
So far, we have pieces of a puzzle and they seem to fit together rather well. Hence, we have a working theory that hasn't been properly challenged. Most of the time, we get bogus challenges that can be easily shot down. I would hardly called that proper challenges.
I know, I know, its not that we find this scant record at all, its that there are patterns in them. Its these patterns that are irrefutable proof of evolution.
Irrefutable proof???
Granted I don't know much about the patterns.
Thank you for admitting this.
I know many many people have claimed to fit them with the evolutionary theory.
It is not as simple as people claiming these things. It's people that has been working for years and decades to find pieces of the puzzle and paistakingly putting them together. In other words, they have a lot more merits than the average Joe.
How many people have explored the patterns through the hydroplate theory of a global flood though?
Many, and it just doesn't make any sense.
Right, I know... you don't need to do this because evolution is a fact. Sigh... I wonder who challenges authority more: creationists or evolutionists.
Sometimes, challenging the authority doesn't make it right. The KKK challenges the authority on racial issues and I don't think anyone can make a valid argument that the caucasion race is somehow superior to all other races.
They are kicking me out of the library, so I'll be back later for more.
The Laminator
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