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Just a nitpick....MISUNDERSTAND not understand.

Just a nitpick, Justtristo is actually saying those WHO UNDERSTAND evolution, yet still use the intelligent designer argument, are being dishonest and hypocritical.

If you had lived at that time, you would have believed it too.

How do you know? There have logically been atheists around for as long as there have been theists.

Amazing how science can be completely wrong about something, isn't it?

Providing the means for you to brain fart your pious evidence-free dogma all over the global system of interconnected computer networks [the Internet] isn't an example of one of those mistakes, its simply you misusing the application and technology available to you.

I'm not ignorant

Yes you are.

The situation hasn't changed. In fact, we have less examples of a transitional series than we did in Darwins time, due to most of them being debunked.

NONSENSE. First of all its amazing that we have any of them to start with. While the fossil record is incomplete, we've found many more transitional fossils after Darwins time. You only have to read a science journal every so often to find out what has been discovered.

So, according to darwin himself, without the fossil evidence his theory about common descent has a valid objection.

You know why? Because that's called intellectual honesty. He published his work and identified areas where people may raise objections to it and in spite of this justifies the available evidence points to life evolving from a common ancestor. Many creationists have tried and failed at quote mining Darwin so do yourself a massive favour and quit this pointless exercise while you're ahead.

We have less diversity today than we did then.

Because lifeforms can and do go extinct. Evolutionary 'dead-ends' and the various species that died out from natural selection, competition, changing environment and other factors both internal and external to our planet, are not evidence against the theory of evolution.

The tree of life simply does not reflect reality.

Its describing the relationships of all life on Earth in an evolutionary context. Its not a cosmological or cosmogonical theory attempting to understand the nature, and origin, of the Universe as a whole respectively.

I believe it is young. I used to believe in an old age of the Earth/Universe but after investigating the evidence I changed my mind.

Oh fuck me, you really are a YE creationist.

*ignores*