RE: Transitional fossils
May 6, 2012 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2012 at 9:15 pm by orogenicman.)
(May 6, 2012 at 12:53 am)Godschild Wrote: Tell me something, how do you know this creature could produce silk, how do you know it's not a scorpion. How do you know it had a segmented body, the creature was smashed under sediment, rotted away, then the space left by the absent body was filled with minerals to form this fossil. You do not know what shape the sediments weight made of it's body.
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/52/20781.full
(May 6, 2012 at 2:48 am)Godschild Wrote:(May 6, 2012 at 1:04 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: @GC
It occurred to me that the other day you mentioned that you were willing to accept the scholarly view as to which bible translation was the most accurate, because you lacked the expertise to make that determination yourself. I'm working from memory and paraphrasing, but I believe I've accurately captured the spirit of what you said.
Now, inexplicably, on subjects which you are not an expect (biology and geology), you refuse to defer to the experts and instead rely on your own intuition and "knowledge". (Or perhaps, are deferring to those who in fact are not experts in the matter.)
So, please tell us, GC: What is your educational background in geology and biology? What makes you capable of judging the experts wrong in this matter, where you so easily defer to them on others?
You have summarized correctly. Most of what I wrote is in the form of questions my friend, the statements I made are basic biology and geology. I've never represent myself as a biologist or geologist, unlike many atheist on this site that claim knowledge of God that no one has.
I am a published geologist, so if you have any questions, ask away.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
