RE: Former agnostic, now Christian
September 19, 2011 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm by Cyberman.)
A question, if I may: why did you post the link to the Nature article? Clearly you haven't read it; or if you have, you failed to understand the words. Nowhere in that article does it say anything about the debunking of Archaeopteryx. What it does say, however, is that a recent discovery appears to supplant that more famous fossil as the basal type of the species. Hey, how about that; science learns new stuff!
In other words, and bearing in mind any apparent expert knowledge is merely the result of trying to learn from others more knowledgable in the field, we once thought that Archaeopteryx was the archetypal bird, on the transition point between reptile and avian. Now we find that, apparently, this previously-unknown theropod is the real archetypal bird, on the transition point between reptile and avian. Congratulations - you've used a transtional fossil to shoot down a transitional fossil. Keep up the good work, and pretty soon you'll have single-handedly shut down the entire creationist/intelligent design/etc movement.
As for your carefully-mined quotes - and I use the word 'carefully' quite wrongly -have a quick read-through of the ever-popular TalkOrigins Quote Mine Project (with emphasis on the section entitled "Quote #4.7" regarding Harrison Matthews) then get back to us. I'd be very interested in your response.
In other words, and bearing in mind any apparent expert knowledge is merely the result of trying to learn from others more knowledgable in the field, we once thought that Archaeopteryx was the archetypal bird, on the transition point between reptile and avian. Now we find that, apparently, this previously-unknown theropod is the real archetypal bird, on the transition point between reptile and avian. Congratulations - you've used a transtional fossil to shoot down a transitional fossil. Keep up the good work, and pretty soon you'll have single-handedly shut down the entire creationist/intelligent design/etc movement.
As for your carefully-mined quotes - and I use the word 'carefully' quite wrongly -have a quick read-through of the ever-popular TalkOrigins Quote Mine Project (with emphasis on the section entitled "Quote #4.7" regarding Harrison Matthews) then get back to us. I'd be very interested in your response.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
