Quote: So what are fossils. Why does one type of animal die out, and a slightly different version propagate.
Rather than focus on the gaps, why are there any transitional fossils at all? How does your hypothesis of God fit into that.
To answer that you will have to define a transitional fossil for me. If your definition is any fossil then this is an easy question. Animals die out and quickly get buried and preserved. That's why they exist.
Quote: And disproven by other scientists. Self-correcting.
I would say you're right IF it weren't for the fact that this isn't a oops mistake made move on learn from it. It is fraud that happens repeatedly. Scientists are obviously not learning from mistakes if they keep falling for these frauds.
Quote: There are many elements of the bible have been conclusively disproved as lies, yet you continue to state it as fact.
Who is being more dishonest here? Catching fraud and exposing them, or Catching fraud and ignoring it.
What in the bible is proven to be lies?
Quote: Would you like to demand that practitioners of faith never lie to defend their beliefs? Would you like to discuss that, or brush it under the carpet? Turin Shroud? Letters to Pontius Pilate? The Coffin of James? etc *cough*
The shroud of Turin is to be determined in light of recent evidence of the carbon dating sample taken determined to be a medevil patch. The others are frauds but don't prove the bible wrong. I admitt church can be corrupt, can you not admitt the same for scientists?
Quote: The problem is that Evolution stands on Evidence, and Faith stands on the denial of it.
Evidence of conjecture, not facts.
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Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem