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My take on Life
#41
RE: My take on Life
With a xtian with a username like Spooge, I guess we know just what to expect.

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Oh hell, that wasn't very xtian of me. I guess I should at least read what you have to say. Let me try again.

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#42
RE: My take on Life
(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: Lots of the species that actually have pictures are either silly drawings

Have you considered what they might be drawings of?

(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: or look like they were run over by a car.

Or several thousands tons pressure in rock strata. At least you concede they exist.

(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: Similarly, a ton of them are fish and other smaller creatures, which we see an abundance of today.

And?

(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: Fossils like tiktaalik are great; few more of those would be fantastic. But I still just see a lot of gaps.

I guess you either missed my post or dismissed it. I shall reiterate the core point here.

How many gaps, do you think, are there between this stage:

[Image: Embryo%2C_8_cells.jpg]

and this one:

[Image: BEY.jpg]
?

Does our inability to provide a continuous, unbroken, step-by-step chain of photographs for your benefit mean that biological procreation and maturity is impossible?

(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: And if big creatures are so hard to fossilize, why are there multiple fossils of so many dinosaurs?

It's not only big creatures that are hard to fossilise; the conditions for fossilisation are so complex that it's remarkable we have as many fossils as we do.
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#43
RE: My take on Life
(March 2, 2014 at 11:18 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(March 2, 2014 at 10:20 pm)Spage Wrote: And if big creatures are so hard to fossilize, why are there multiple fossils of so many dinosaurs?

It's not only big creatures that are hard to fossilise; the conditions for fossilisation are so complex that it's remarkable we have as many fossils as we do.

And it's certain that there were thousands of species we will never know about because none of their members got fossilised.
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#44
RE: My take on Life
(March 2, 2014 at 8:35 pm)Spage Wrote: Was he delusional?
Gee, I'm not sure... Is it just coincidence that all religious people see white lights and yet only a small fraction are heading towards heaven, granted Christianity is true? You do realize there are branches of science that study such brain phenomena and hence no reason left to invoke supernatural causes, yes?

Quote: Possibly, but I've had other experienced, though no profound ones. Not a main reason to be a Christian, but it's sprinkles on the sundae.

How's the sundae taste when you watch the majority of the world, majority of your loved ones, head to eternal hell fire because they're not gullible enough to buy the nonsensical piety outlined in the Christian faith?
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#45
RE: My take on Life
Just read the OP. You don't understand evolution.
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'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House

“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom

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#46
RE: My take on Life
(March 2, 2014 at 8:35 pm)Spage Wrote: If you have read this entire post, I sincerely thank you for your time,

I didn't read it all, first couple of paras and then jump to the last.
I know I'm a no good quitter and a skimmer,
it wasn't easy reading though.
Can I at least have some insincere thanks?
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#47
RE: My take on Life
You're a YEC. You don't want to talk about it.

Fine, no problem. Ignore the questions about it... That's OK because you've already said you don't want to talk about it.

Talk about something else. Converse.
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#48
RE: My take on Life
Methinks he's gone...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#49
RE: My take on Life
Aw I didn't get the opportunity to not ask him about what he said.

Bollocks. I'll get the next one.
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#50
RE: My take on Life
I stopped reading at "explosion of nothing"...
It's not an explosion.
And there was not nothing. Hmm, double negative... you may have trouble with it...let me rephrase: and there was something.

Where did that something come from?
- invalid question, as space time was at the something.
How did that something come into being?
- I don't know...As far as I'm aware, no one knows.

Now the explosion bit... call it an expansion and then we may talk.

It seems, judging by other's replies, that you also mentioned evolution... I'm guessing your understanding of it if as flawed as about the big bang theory...
Enjoy your favorite delusion, but please let yourchildren learn things unbiased by your presupposition of creation.
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