NoMoreFaith Wrote:Transitional Fossil being a fossil remains of a creature which shares traits with older and newer fossils with a pattern of variation through the ages.
That definition appears to leave an opening to interpretation. All organisms have cells therefore that's a trait they share. and what exactly is the "pattern" of variation you speak of? It appears that variation is completely random, not a consistant pattern. It appears easiest to atheists to understand a transitional form when speaking of apes to humans, so tell me what fossil has been found to show transition of apes and humans that has not been faked or misinterpreted?
Quote: However, it is a rare occurrence, more damning of people whether scientific or religious than of the scientific method. It is the scientific method that exposed the flaws in the first place.
For instance, Christians can commit evil acts, therefore Christianity is evil would be a similar exaggeration which is not necessarily true.
That is not at all what I said. I said it has been shown repeatedly that scientists are willing to fake evidence, therefore maybe we should be skeptical when they present "evidence." you say these occurrences are rare but they are much more common than you think. I only touched on missing link frauds. What about embryonic recapitulation, Archaeoraptor Liaoningensis, and the Brontosaurus? Many organs were thought to be vestigial to prove the evolution theory. This is includes the human appebdix, Whale pelvis, and many more which we're proven false.
William Straus, 1947, Quarterly Review of Biology, p. 149 Wrote:There is no longer any justification for regarding the vermiform appendix as a vestigial structure.
John C. Whitcomb, Early Earth (1988), p. 84 Wrote:Evolutionists often point to vestigial hind legs near the pelvis. But these are found only in the Right Whale. and upon closer inspection turn out to be strengthening bones to the genital wall.
Quote: By your own argument, things like a stationary earth and flat earth were accepted for hundreds of years, so who are we to say they are wrong.
Those theories of flat stationary earth were not derived from the bible. They were formulated by scientists like Aristotle. If you're refering to when the church was going against the Copernicus theory that again was corruption in the church, not biblical falsehood.
Quote: I absolutely can. People are people, and some people have motivations contrary to the truth. This is the same for religion as for science. However science has a method to catch them in their lies.
Wheres religions method to catch lies? Your frauds went for hundreds of years in some cases.. and it had to call on science to prove it.
I have nothing against the scientific method, I just don't think it's being used properly. Do you really think that the scientific method was used to say a single tooth was evidence of a missing link? Please. I don't care what tooth they found, that is not evidence of a missing link. They drew pictures of what they thought Nebraska man would look like. Him and his wife in great detail all derived from a single tooth. Science? No, just wild imagination. That's what evolution is and continually shows itself to be.
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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!
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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