(May 7, 2012 at 3:59 am)Alter2Ego Wrote:(April 30, 2012 at 1:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: It is incredibly rare in nature for fossilisation to happen, it may be that only 1 in 1000 species has ever had any member fossilized and then someone has to find it just when it erodes out of the rock. The record is also overwhelmingly comprised of marine species beacuse of the requirements for fossilisation.ALTER2EGO -to- DOWN BEAT PLUMB:
Given the above, the fact that the fossil record is as complete as it is amazing.
And yet some buffoons want the record to be completely unbroken with transitional fossils coming labeled in the deposits with the parts that are relevant.
They demand impossible levels of proof for evolution and old earth while giving not one jot of evidence for their own childish beliefs.
In other words, you don't mind believing something occurred (in this instance, macroevolution) despite the fact there is no evidence proving it in the fossils. The pro-evolution paleontologists write multi-page reports in which they speculate, present their long-winded opinions, and make every attempt to talk around the fact that there are nothing but gaps in the fossils.
Keep in mind that all animals, birds, humans, etc. supposedly evolved from a single ancestor. In other words, this had to have been a common-place occurrence since it's how all life forms that have ever existed reached their present stage. Yet, from this seemingly routine occurrence, not one single bone can to found to connect one family or species of animal to something that is entirely different. And that doesn't raise any red flags for you!
According to you, macroevolution must have happened—regardless of what the paleontologist have had to admit. If that's not an act of blind faith, I don't know what is. Meanwhile, you and your pals have the nerve to refer to creationists as being unrealistiic in believing in a fairytale God they cannot see. Now, is this double-standards or what?
Truth be told, there is evidence for the existence of an intelligent Designer/God. The evidence is found in the precision we see around us in the natural world. Precision indicates deliberation, and deliberation indicates someone did it. So you see, theists are not driven by blind faith at all. Rather, logic plays a large part in the belief system of theists. Meanwhile, what logic are you using in believing macroevolution happened when the fossils record says it did not?
Carry on.
Really? then explain how the laryngal nerve of the giraffe counts as "intelligent" design.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.