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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
And you have no reason to believe either one is happening in this case. You just don't want to believe them.

Science doesn't work on the "trust me" principle. Anything assumed to be true because it is not fully tested or accounted for must be clearly stated. Anything demonstrated must be fully documented.

You missed the photo? Here.

One photo. Where is the change? How do you know the change is due to evolution. If it occurs in 36 years, that is a pretty good indication mutation and natural selection have nothing to do with it. Now you're turning fossils into "a lump of something." This is a pretty detailed "lump.

This is not the photo at the original link. While this is a much better fossil, the point still stands -- it is an assumption that it is a transitional form between two other species. This is what is called "pattern matching." You need to demonstrate that these fossils are descendents of older fossils and ancestors of later fossils to know that it is transitional. It is that science thing I mentioned earlier.

This is another common mistake of anti-evolutionists: the unspoken assumption that today's endpoints are the only ones available.

No, the actual endpoint is irrelevant. I could just as easily say "not lizard" to cover every possible base.

Here's the thing: while you and Behe are quibbling and caviling and insisting that the whole theory is going to come crashing down any day now, thousands of researchers are doing practical, productive work on the assumption that the theory is correct.

Then you have nothing to worry about.

Who cares that we don't have enough stuff to convince hopespringseternal, when entire companies are built on the successful application of the theory?

Entire companies are built around global warming and helping people scam medicare.

223 posted on 06/01/2012 3:03:55 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal
This is what is called "pattern matching."

This is funny. You're so desperate to deny evolution that you have to denigrate pattern matching, one of our primary tools for figuring out how things work.

Scientist: "I have noticed that the air pressure drops before a storm. Perhaps we can use that to predict storms."
hopespringseternal: "You're just pattern matching."

Doctor: "Everybody who got sick drank from the same fountain!"
hopespringseternal: "Means nothing. Just a pattern."

226 posted on 06/01/2012 10:53:27 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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