(November 10, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:If there was a single rock (or even just a couple of dozen) that just happened to look like a bone then I would agree with you that rocks that look like bones would not be evidence for dinosaurs.Quote: Big. Fucking. Fossils.You mean big rocks that look like bones right?
However there are hundreds and thousands of fossils, these aren't just random rocks that people bring in off the street. A theory requires that it is able to make predictions, there are people that study fossils, make predictions that they should be able to dig in a certain area and find certain fossils.
When they do that low and behold they do not just find random rocks that happen to look like the shapes they are trying to find. They find fossils that look exactly like they predicted.
They do not dig in the ground and create the shapes they want to find, the fossils are structurally different than the surrounding material.
If the rocks were really just random shapes that happen to look like bones then why do we find the same shapes over and over again? Why do the rocks in the same location happen to make the shape of a functional animal instead of a hodge podge?
When you take those factors into account the chances of these "rocks" being random shapes that just happen to look like bones is zero.
Stop asserting that fossils are just rocks that happen to look like bones, you have your evidence that they aren't and your argument falls apart.