(May 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Every time you write, you become more idiotic:

No she doesn't become more idiotic, she is a fundamentalist christian, so she is already supremely idiotic. It's just that her level of idiocy can't be fully revealed within any finite amount of time.

Seriously, whenever someone colors in a whole paragraph I make a point not to bother to read it.
Everytime I have its turned out that the color has been the only bright thing about the statement they've made.
Is this a similar case? I'm betting it is.

You are correct, Raphiel.

(May 21, 2012 at 4:46 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: Am I supposed to take your word for it? Or are you going to present evidence of the "vast majority of scientists" that are lying about "overwhelming evidence." What evidence? They have none. That's why evolution remains a theory and can't graduate into "fact."

Don't be ignorant. You don't understand the terminology being used, and an afternoon on wiki-fucking-pedia won't kill you.

Stephen Jay Gould, 1981 Wrote:Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.

Now, do you understand why your answer is meaningless?

(May 21, 2012 at 4:46 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: Did you notice that almost the entire paragraph is nothing but speculations? Now, explain to me how paleontologists could possibly know anything about this creature's hunting methods (ambushing and puncturing prey with its teeth and drowning its prey). That's your idea of evidence for macroevolution?

You're right, maybe they used sharp pointy teeth to chew seaweed... wouldn't be very good at it.. but who knows eh?

Maybe fish don't swim, but flop along the ground using their fins to inch forward.

Maybe woolly mammoths were aquatic and used their tusks to catch shrimp.. again, not very well suited for the job...

Again, the structure of an animal, the way its teeth curve, the shape, their bone structure showing where they are strong, and weak, combined with knowledge of more modern creatures that we can observe, allows for some reasonable assumptions.

Would you look at a skeleton of a sabre-tooth tiger and assume it ate grass?
Would you ever look at an alligator and think, oh yes, that body shape is most suitable for consuming plankton.

These things are certainly a lot of educated guesswork, but the reasoning in all cases is sound.. by no means claimed as definite, but the bone structures themselves are practically indisputable.

What is the point of talking to any half witted examples of Christian narcissism like this alter2ego?, A person needs to conceed she doesn't know to learn.

This half baked backwoods preachette shows at every turn she knows just about nothing about just about everything, yet despite the fact that evidence for her ignorance is practically glued to her nose, she remain far too conceited to admit the world can be bigger and different from what can be grasped by an infantile mind rotten by biblical garbage such as hers.

Talking with a creationist for the benefit of an audience can be productive, for the audience. Talking to a creationist simply squanders time.

(May 21, 2012 at 8:20 am)libalchris Wrote: This is why we have real scientists doing this kind of work, and not you. You don't seem to understand how much information can be drawn from fossils.

Creationists often demand to know where the information in the genetic 'code' came from. The answer is 'the environment'. That is why we can tell so much about an animal's environment and lifestyle by studying its bones.

I know that, by definition, it's hard to tell; but I have the feeling our friend is having us on. She seems to be going out of her way to live up to every fundamentalist YEC stereotype available. I think she may just be here to kindly provide us with sport.

All the oxygen in the air we breath is a direct result of evolution. People who deny evolution shouldn't breathe. Then again, they can get an MRSA infection and take Penecillin since Staph couldn't have evolved.