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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: You should realize, of course, that soft tissues like hearts and mammary glands do not fossilize. Also, bat wing bones are tiny and fragile, which would mean that fossils of them would be easily destroyed and therefore rare. Same with insect soft parts. This message has been edited by schrafinator, 11-15-2005 10:05 AM
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: There are holes in every single scientific theory in existence. I don't know anyone on this board, or any scientist, for that matter, who denies this. Why do you think any of us would? All of them are incomplete. The ToE, however, has been demonstrated to have enormously useful predictive power; much more than any other scientific theory of the origin of species that has ever been proposed.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Scientists do not have a very good understanding of how gravity works. There are, in fact, sevearal competing scientific theories which attempt to explain it, but each of them have "holes" rather larger than the "holes" in the ToE, and none of them are as accurately predictive as the ToE. Why do you attack Evolutionary Biology, casting aspersions, when this obviously weaker and less-supported area of science continues to be taught in schools?
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Yes, randman, please answer the question:
Do you have a cat? Can you show us the skeleton of your cat's great grandfather?
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Scientists do not have a very good understanding of how gravity works. There are, in fact, several competing scientific theories which attempt to explain it, but each of them have "holes" rather larger than the "holes" in the ToE, and none of them are as accurately predictive as the ToE. Why do you attack Evolutionary Biology, casting aspersions, when this obviously weaker and less-supported area of science continues to be taught in schools?
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: There are holes in every single scientific theory in existence. I don't know anyone on this board, or any scientist, for that matter, who denies this. Why do you think any of us would? All of them are incomplete. The ToE, however, has been demonstrated to have enormously useful predictive power; much more than any other scientific theory of the origin of species that has ever been proposed.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Ooooo, ooooo, I have, I have!!!
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Yeah, yeah, yeah, hundreds of thousands of scientists are colluding to lie and decieve. I suppose they have ties to, or maybe even are, the Illuminati or something, too, right? It must be truly amazing to have enough time and utter intellectual brilliance to be able to read the thousands of peer-reviewed papers related to Evolutionary Science that are published every year, and even more time spent getting the several dozen PhD's in various subjects that you wouldr require to be able to completely understand everything in each specialized field. You know, I started a thread a while back fo you to pick a few Evolutionaty Science papers and specify where the "deceptions" and "overstatements" were, but you never seemed into it. Perhaps you are now. I strongly encourage you to put up or shut up. Produce some examples of these "deceptions" or retract the claim. Now, to address the rest... Randman, genetics is fully integrated into modern Evolutionaty Biology. That's why they call it "The Modern Synthesis" these days. It was genetics (specifically the amazing congrence that was found to exist between independently-built genetic trees of life and morphological trees of life) that finally set to rest any lingering doubt that the ToE was very, very solid science. It is genetics, in other words, that did the most to confirm the ToE. So, if you accept genetics, you must accept the ToE, because genetics supports the ToE at pretty much every turn. It supports common decent with modification. ...that is, if you are an honest debater, or honest with yourself. This message has been edited by schrafinator, 11-16-2005 07:38 AM This message has been edited by schrafinator, 11-16-2005 07:47 AM
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Actually, it's was 4 toes in front, and 5 toes behind, IIRC.
quote: ...and the modern breed of Arabian horses has 17 ribs while all other horses have 18. Why isn't that evolution, anyway? Humans evolved from primates which had tails, and we now have a dinky little tailbone that is fused.
quote: Why is finding fossils all over the world a problem?
quote: Cite?
quote: That is completely false.
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