Quote:Well I am sure you are aware that the Biblical "kind" is not at the species level and there is only about 50 families of dinosaurs. I am sure you are also aware that we call a lot of dinosaurs different species when they are more likely the same dinosaur just different sizes. It's not God's fault you cannot interpret the evidence correctly, it's really not that hard to interpret. I think you will have a tougher time explaining why dinosaurs all of the sudden "appear" in the geological record and there are no species that are "almost" dinosaur or "on there way to becoming" a dinosaur? Kind of amazing considering you believe a 40 foot tall Sauropod is a descendant of a single celled organism. Someone has some blind faith and it's not me.
Perhaps you could provide a list of these 50 "familes" of dinosaurs. So what you are saying is that in order to get the over 9,000 species of dinosaurs already identified by scientists (with no apparent end in sight, since there are nearly daily discoveries) into Noah's ark, you simply reduce the number of species to 50 families (ignoring the obvious nomioclatural error of doing so) that are not recognized by anyone outside of creationist circles. Do you even understand how families fit into standard binomial nomenclature? And how many species are associated with just one typical family?
All Dinosaurs suddenly appear in the geological record? At the same place, at the same time? On what planet? Just curious because there is no place on THIS planet where ALL dinosaurs appear in the geological record at the same time. Your reference to the "no transitional fossils" argument, of course, ignores the thousands of transition species already identified as well as the fact that all species are transitional. That the genomes of all species of animals studied to date contain evidence of their single cell ancestry apparently escapes you, as well as the fact that all species are related by the fact that all lving species contain DNA, the blueprint of all life on Earth.
Oh, and Statler, the offer of meeting you at the Creation Museum for an afternoon of real field studies in geology still stands, if you dare.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
