Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

[Revelation777]

Just because a source has Christian beliefs doesn't mean that the source should be disregarded. I can do the same with atheistic sources.

It's not a matter of christian beliefs or atheist beliefs or any kind of beliefs!

How are you going to get to the truth of any matter if the one source you'll bother to use says from the outset that they'll never consider anything other than what they already think? How are you able to see both sides of an issue there?

Remember what I said in another thread, that if you could find me a scientific source that had a statement of faith anywhere in it, that would be a source I no longer trust? What you have in AiG is a source that's dedicated to not only just showing one side of the argument, but to actually warping the other side dishonestly in order to discredit it.

How does that seem fair and balanced, to you?

What about what these scholars have said?

"transitional fossils have not been found because they don't exist" (Jeffrey H. Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh professor of anthropology).

"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution" (Stephen J. Gould, evolutionary paleontologist of Harvard University).

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Is it your job to change my mind? I doubt I can change yours. However, we can contemplate what each other has to offer.

Your declared goal to be here is to convert some of us.

I can't convert a tadpole. I deliver the message and the ball is in your court, you have a free will.

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You know what is ironic as well, Darwin did not deny that there was a God! In fact, in his sixth addition of Origin he refers to the Creator.

Don't even care: Darwin isn't a prophet and none of us follow what he says because he says it. A lot of what he thought about evolution was wrong too, but we accept that it happens because it does and we have evidence of that.

That's the difference between a real argument and the arguments from authority you're attempting to make.

Wow, now your even throwing Darwin under the bus. Perhaps if he were alive today he could get a job at AIG.

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Why do you call them conmen? They have a Creation Museum and they will be building a Noah's Ark replica. I am very impressed with their findings.

Yeah, they have a model of the triceratops with a SADDLE on it, are convinced not only that dinosaurs lived alongside humans but the T-rexes were VEGETARIANS.

And we're to take these people seriously?

How do you know what they ordered on their menu? Maybe they shopped at WHole Foods for all we know?