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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
Please note that "do work" is not a synonym for "Google Answers in Genesis".
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
No! Please, no. If anyone comes here with anything copied from one of those bullshit websites, they may as well blow their virtual brains out.

But it will take all of 2 seconds to point out how these "arguments" do not address what evolution actually says.
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
(November 12, 2015 at 9:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: Shouldn't be difficult, you only need to find a single subject of a single species of animal unrelated to the others.  Go, do work.

This should be the lesson that finally hammers it home for RR.

A single piece of real evidence against evolution WOULD be extraordinary evidence.
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
(November 12, 2015 at 9:30 am)Rhythm Wrote:
(November 11, 2015 at 5:44 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:  I'm gathering the arguments used against me here, to use against common descent evolution.  I have lots of new material, and best of all, I don't really have to investigate or understand the claims to use them.  Much less leg work involved.
You're going to need evidence "against common descent evolution".  Argument alone will be insufficient.  In this case, it won't need to be extraordinary, any ordinary evidence will do, like the mountains of ordinary evidence suggesting common descent that you can find in every single living creature on earth....... As it stands, common descent is a -fact- for every species we've checked, but we haven't checked them all, and there may be an outlier out there.

Shouldn't be difficult, you only need to find a single subject of a single species of animal unrelated to the others. Go, do work.

No that would not work. Modern evolutionary synthesis doesn't preclude the possibility of a second tree of life.
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RE: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
It doesn't, but -if- there are two, then common descent as it stands is kaput.  Easy peasy. Not that this will matter, because what's important here to our christard friends is their ability to believe that they are not descended from an ameoba (or some-such). Even showing two trees won't solve -that- problem, but it's fun to watch them try.
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