Chuck77 writes:
The Penquin is clearly in transition. It's a seal morphing into a bird, obviously. Well, maybe a bird morphing into a seal.
Shucks Chuck, have you not been paying attention to the content of the scientifically literate posts in any of the topics you've been participating in? That's not at all what transitional means, and you'd know that if you'd read any other of the replies in just this topic here. I don't mean to sound critical, but you've actually been better than most at taking an honest look at the evidence you've been exposed to here, and I had hoped that you were having your eyes open to the faults in what you'd be told in the past by the scientifically illiterate. What happened?
I also note that you've taken a very defensive tone in your debate with Straggler. Is any of that bleeding over into your post here, even though the topics are quite different?
I've been reading The Dawkins Delusion? as you suggested, but it's taking some time because I have to keep stopping to re-read the relevant passages in The God Delusion. Hard to believe that McGrath's understanding of Dawkins's book is so far apart from what it actually says. In the meantime, I hope that you've been reading some of the books on the facts of evolution that I listed for you. They would make topics like this much clearer for you.
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