(November 21, 2014 at 2:33 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: So if I showed you a picture of Jesus Christ, I guess that means Christianity is true, huh?
If you had his skeleton, and could prove it was his, that would prove he really existed. We have that little critter's skeleton.
Now, that skeleton is on a continuum between earlier dinosaurs and later birds, and evolution predicts that such a creature would have existed, and that it would have lived in a certain timeframe, which is what we found.
Even if you had a photograph of Jesus, it wouldn't prove Christianity, because a photograph of a religion's founder doesn't prove he's who he is supposed to have said he was. It's not the right knid of evidence to support the claim. Mircoraptor, on the other hand, is an example of exactly the kind of evidence you would want to support the claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs: an animal with characteristics intermediate between both.
If evolution is wrong, why does it work for predicting where to look for fossils of animals we haven't discovered yet, including what kind of traits it will have?
The fundamental of heuristic of science is to use what actually works.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.