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Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
#91
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 6:50 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: I predict that nothing we can say is going to change Rev's mind.

Oi - work the other side of the street!
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#92
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
I bet this guy doesn't even know the basic arguments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajULH6dNihI

(April 21, 2014 at 6:05 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Then everyone should of evolved into the strongest, most rugged, smartest, creature imaginable. The rabbit must not of got the memo.

Evolution doesn't have an arrow. It always has to make do with what it's got to work with, and the only criteria it has is reproductive success. Rabbits are VERY successful, evolutionarily speaking. That is how badly you misunderstand what the theory actually says.

In fact, some animals evolve characteristics to attract mates despite that those characteristics detract from survival, such as the peacock (video).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKybAp--n7M
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#93
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Heywood Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 3:47 pm)Chuck Wrote: Come on, all bible believing Christians known the earth is at the center of the universe, where can you fall off to from there?


Sorry to bust your bubble but the earth is at the center of the observable universe.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but whether earth is at center of the observable universe, and how far is the earth from the center of the observable universe, is a much more complicated and subtle question then you think. The answer depends on a lot more things than invariant speed of light. It depends on exactly how isotopic the expansion, and more importantly the acceleration of expansion, of the universe really is. Just how homogenous the universe was at the start of era of recombination after the Big Bang, did recombination occur exactly simultaneously or did it sweet through the universe like a wave. And is space itself really isotopic. Any deviation from perfect homogeneity and perfect isotropy will displace earth from center of the universe, likely by margins that are huge compare to size of solar system, or even the size of Milky Way. And unfortunately these factors are only not well constrained enough to tell us just how far earth would be displaced from center of observable, and observed, universe.

(April 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm)Revelation777 Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 11:13 am)Chuck Wrote: If more primitive ancesters of trilobites were found some time in the future, dating to before when you and your ilk thought there was a "sudden appearence", would you then admit transitional form exists and the biblical creation thereby proven to be bullshit?

If not, then how ingenuous can be possibly be in raising these objections?

there are changes that happen within species, but not species into a different species


Disingenuous, then.
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#94
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Then everyone should of evolved into the strongest, most rugged, smartest, creature imaginable. The rabbit must not of got the memo.

Ug. I've started and stopped a reply to this about 10 times now and there's just no way to explain selection pressures to a person who's not interested in learning about them. So I'll resort to childish grammar correction:

(April 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Then everyone should have evolved into the strongest, most rugged, smartest, creature imaginable. The rabbit must not have got the memo.

And implore Rev to google "Evolutionary Arms Race," read Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth, but because those two suggestions are such hardships, just watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTjkSDaXF7s
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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#95
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
If evolution weren't all an evil science conspiracy, why don't we find creatures that are half man, half bear, and half pig?

Checkmate!
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#96
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 7:36 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: If evolution weren't all an evil science conspiracy, why don't we find creatures that are half man, half bear, and half pig?


Does creationists with the shape of a man and the brain of a pig count?
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#97
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 7:40 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 7:36 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: If evolution weren't all an evil science conspiracy, why don't we find creatures that are half man, half bear, and half pig?


Does creationists with the shape of a man and the brain of a pig count?

I dunno - does it shit in the woods?
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#98
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 7:42 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 7:40 pm)Chuck Wrote: Does creationists with the shape of a man and the brain of a pig count?

I dunno - does it shit in the woods?


Don't know, but it does shit all over its keyboard.
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#99
RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
And.......









Fail.
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RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
(April 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Then everyone should of evolved into the strongest, most rugged, smartest, creature imaginable. The rabbit must not of got the memo.

Look here you willfully stupid sonofabitch... it's have goddamnit. Must not HAVE .

(April 21, 2014 at 5:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Sounds like someone's been huffing Ken Ham's fumes to me.

Huffing? He's got his own portable tank.

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