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Author Topic:   Extinction of Dinosaurs: Consensus Reached . . . mostly
ringo
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Message 39 of 53 (581901)
09-18-2010 12:44 AM
Reply to: Message 35 by barbara
09-17-2010 11:35 PM


barbara writes:
Life comes from life and if I am to make any sense of evolution then total extinction doesn't fit into the theory of descent with modification. You can't evolve from another if it dead.
Species A was the common ancestor of species B and species C. Later on, species A became extinct. What's the problem with that?

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ringo
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Message 50 of 53 (583926)
09-29-2010 2:22 PM
Reply to: Message 46 by creationliberty
09-29-2010 11:00 AM


Re: Dinosaur and Man together
creationliberty writes:
Claiming the extinction of anything requires absolute omniscient knowledge over the whole earth and every living thing at the same moment in time, and that's an arrogant and slippery position to hold.
Not really. When we say a species is extinct, what we mean is something like, "I'm afraid we can't find any living specimens." There's no arrogance. More often than not, we sincerely wish we could find a living specimen. Every evolutionist on earth would be tickled pink over the discovery of a living dinosaur.

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