(April 29, 2012 at 1:31 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: Nobody knows the age of the universe.

Clearly they didn't when that 'holy' crock of fables was written. We've come a long way since then. You really ought to keep up; you've missed out on so much, just in the last fifty years.

@ the OP

Chapter four of Darwin’s book On The Origin Of Species is titled difficulties on theory. In it he discussed the features of flying squirrels and lemurs as a possible transitional form between small tree dwelling mammals and bats. He never suggests that at some point in history a squirrel gave birth to a bat. Rather he explains the changes necessary to change the form of the tree dwelling gliding mammals, themselves transitional forms, into the form of a bat.

If Darwin’s theory is correct we would expect to find within the fossil record a series of forms distributed through time that show a transition from the early mammalian form to that of bats. Indeed that is exactly what we find. Within the fossil record we have Multituberculates that are more than 150 million yo. These are followed by Volaticotherium antiquus, a squirrel sized glider at least 125 million yo. Finally we find the appearance of the earliest true bats more than 50 million years ago. These early bats were themselves a transitional form. They possessed the general body form of bats, but had yet to evolve the features necessary for echolocation.

Please defend your claims of no transitional forms in light of the fact that I have specifically addressed one of your claims of things that do not exist in the fossil record.

(April 16, 2012 at 11:41 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(April 13, 2012 at 8:28 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: ORGANIC/BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION is the theory that the first living organism developed from nonliving matter.

No, it isn't. Abiogenesis is the hypothesis that the first living organisms devoloped from nonliving matter. Evolution is about what happens next.

ALTER2EGO -to- MISTER AGENDA:
That's the loophole some try to use, now that they realize they cannot explain how life started from non-life. So tell me, where did this "common ancestor" come from? Who gave it life, in order for all other living things in existence to have then evolved from it? Let me know.

(April 16, 2012 at 11:41 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(April 13, 2012 at 8:28 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: that every single animal that has ever existed came from one common ancestor aka came from a single animal (macro-evolution). Is there evidence proving that humans or animals evolved from completely different beings than what they presently are?

Yes, and it's readily available to anyone who cares to educate themselves.

ALTER2EGO -to- MISTER AGENDA:
But that's just it. I have educated myself, and all I keep finding are admissions from paleontologists that the fossils record is full of nothing but gaps. The existence of gaps is another way of saying: "There are no bones linking one type of animal/species/family to an entirely different type." Below are a couple examples of what the paleontologists have been saying for the past 30 years.

According to the Bulletin of Chicago: Charles Darwin "was embarrassed by the fossil record because it didn't look the way he predicted it would.... the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution." (Source: Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Chicago, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," by David M. Raup, January 1979, pages 22, 23, 25)


Scientist Steven Stanley spoke of "the general failure of the record to display gradual transitions from one major group to another." He went on further to say: "The known fossil record is not, and never has been, in accord with [slow evolution.]" (Source: The New Evolutionary Timetable, by Steven M. Stanley, 1981, pages 71 and 77)


Yet another scientist, Niles Eldredge, also admitted: "The pattern that we were told to find for the last 120 years does not exist." (Source: The Enterprise, November 14, 1980, page E9)


I will respond to the remainder of your rebuttal in another post.

The scientific use of the word theory has been explained to you. If you can't understand it, perhaps I can get my friend's ten-year-old to try to help you grasp it.

(April 30, 2012 at 1:15 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: [If there's no challenge anymore, why is the word "evolution" permanentLy locked to the word "theory"?

And here we have a perfect example of the logical fallacy known as an Argument of Equivocation.

My Logic 101 professor just failed you.

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(April 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: No, it isn't. Abiogenesis is the hypothesis that the first living organisms devoloped from nonliving matter. Evolution is about what happens next.
ALTER2EGO -to- MISTER AGENDA:
That's the loophole some try to use, now that they realize they cannot explain how life started from non-life. So tell me, where did this "common ancestor" come from? Who gave it life, in order for all other living things in existence to have then evolved from it? Let me know.

It's not a "loophole", genius. It's two different areas of science.

Quote:ALTER2EGO -to- MISTER AGENDA:[/b]
But that's just it. I have educated myself, and all I keep finding are admissions from paleontologists that the fossils record is full of nothing but gaps.

I guess you've never seen the fossils that demonstrate the evolution of the horse. It's a pretty complete picture. Human evolution is pretty complete as well.

Quote:The existence of gaps is another way of saying: "There are no bones linking one type of animal/species/family to an entirely different type."

Bullshit. Apparently you've never heard of Tiktaalik. It's a creature whose existence was predicted and was found exactly where scientists expected it to be found! It shows a definite transition from fish to tetrapods.

Quote: Below are a couple examples of what the paleontologists have been saying for the past 30 years.

Hey, let's put on our hardhat and go quote mining!