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nator Member (Idle past 2198 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Your personal experience is rather meaningless in this instance, TC. Belief in literal Biblical creation is highest in people who never finished high school. Among life scientists, belief in a literal Biblical creation is almost nonexistant. The percentage of people who believe in a literal Biblical creation goes DOWN as education levels go up. Have a looksee:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_publi.htm ------------------"We will still have perfect freedom to hold contrary views of our own, but to simply close our minds to the knowledge painstakingly accumulated by hundreds of thousands of scientists over long centuries is to deliberately decide to be ignorant and narrow- minded." -Steve Allen, from "Dumbth"
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nator Member (Idle past 2198 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Poor, maligned Creationists. They say they want to do science but can't seem to stop referring to their Christian Bibles. Give me a break, TC.
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nator Member (Idle past 2198 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Evidence for a young earth should be evident without reference to God at all. That is the whole point, and that is why Creation 'science" isn't science. Science is evidenciary in nature, not revelatory. ------------------"We will still have perfect freedom to hold contrary views of our own, but to simply close our minds to the knowledge painstakingly accumulated by hundreds of thousands of scientists over long centuries is to deliberately decide to be ignorant and narrow- minded." -Steve Allen, from "Dumbth" [This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-10-2002]
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nator Member (Idle past 2198 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: No, you are mistaken about how fossilization occurs. A cataclism doesn't need to happen. In fact, cataclisms are more likely to destroy than to preserve. Most fossils are of bottom-dwelling marine animals which are the most likely to get buried in calm water/silt with low oxygen levels. Here is a good basic explanation:
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/308/cha1.html
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nator Member (Idle past 2198 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Punisher:
[B] The fossil record shows nothing. You make an assumption and seek to understand the fossil record in light of that assumption. Suppose you were on a dig 2000 years from now, and you discovered, in different strata, a Shetland pony, a quarterhorse, a thorough-bred, and a Clydesdale. Being completely honest, wouldn't you try to arrange them in some sort of evolutionary fashion - as though the big horse evolved from the smaller one?[/QUOTE] No. They all are basically identical from an evolutionary/paleontological sense. They all have single toes with vestigial tarsal bones on either side. They all have the same skull and tooth construction. They all have the same spinal column construction. etc And, most importantly, they would all be found in the same layer of the geologic column. Now, if they were found in different layers, that would be something different. Also, it is incorrect to assume (and paleontologists and Evolutionary Biologists don't) that smaller means older and larger means more recent. [This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-11-2002] [This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-11-2002]
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