RE: The dates given by AOS for past events may actually disprove evolution entirely
October 6, 2013 at 8:48 am
(October 5, 2013 at 4:04 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: To show why the real error range destroys atheistic origin science consider the following cases.
Case 1 – Determination of an intermediate species.
Ancestor 120 million years ago
Intermediate 115 million years ago
Descendant 110 million years ago
Seems straightforward. Now consider these same numbers with error ranges.
Ancestor 120 million years ago +- 10 million years
Intermediate 115 million years ago +- 10 million years
Descendant 110 million years ago +- 10 million years
Based on these numbers, then this could be the case.
Ancestor 113 million years ago
Intermediate 115 million years ago
Descendant 118 million years ago
That is the descendant came first, then the intermediate, then the ancestor. So that is now shown to be false.
Again, this is the sort of thing only a Poe would write. Which, interestingly, may show that Poe's Law actually does have limits. Whoever called Poe or troll first (LastPoet?) nailed it.
While most of Grace's posts have just been dumb, stuff like this is really just brilliant in this context. Using the 'plus/minus' approximation to screw up sequential dates? I have to admit that I chuckled.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
