(May 22, 2012 at 5:46 pm)NoahsFarce Wrote:
You don't understand. Alter2Ego is cheating. You could show her a lineup of a million fossils detailing every single tiny change from one species to another and she'd still deny it. Why? Because she could say "they're only similarities, it doesn't prove anything." I know that because that's what she's doing now. We not only show a lineup of many transitional forms, but we also explain that they're in the right order in the geological column, that they share proper homologies, and more, and she still says "it's just similarities." She's doing this because she isn't capable of doing anything but virtually quoting creationist sources, she doesn't understand what she's saying. The way she described "homology theory" is how I hear it described in every creationist source. Creationists don't understand that homology is more than just similarities, it's similarities where you expect them to be as predicted by the theory of evolution even if there's no reason a designer would think to make it homologous (The homology in bat's wings, dolphin fins, and human hands for example,) and lack of similarities where you DON'T expect them (like mammals don't have a structure homologous to bird feathers)