Posted on 10/09/2012 2:04:50 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Darwin's work was modernized by a ghost writer named Steve Jones.
Probably by that method. They don’t use Carbon dating for something that old. Probably by dating layers of rock above and below using other radioactive elements. It would be interesting to know what method they used.
‘100 million’ years and they haven’t evolved at all? A wasp is still a wasp and a spider is still a spider, hum?
Thanks. That’s just about the only book of hers that I haven’t read and I didn’t recognize the quote.
Well I’m sure the researchers have a good reason for claiming the age of the fossil? I mean they probably didn’t just pick an age out of a hat seeing as how their professional reputations are on the line. Do you have some reason to doubt their findings?
A ghost writer! Well that explains how he was able to talk to Darwin's ghost...was the book transcribed by seance?
By the way, that really was a long time ago. No internet. No computers. No pan-seared salmon over jasmine rice and asparagus.
Do you like snakes?
:)
Yes, there are quite a few studies showing that the dating of the rocks above and below a biological find are cherry picked to show a specific age already decided upon.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”?
Yep.
Every bit as evil as cherry picking Bible quotes to justify, say, slavery (to name just one thing that's been done with).
Yes, it’s obvious that spiders and wasps have evolved mightily in the past 110 million years.
Do you have evidence that that was done by these scientists? Let us hear your evidence. Otherwise why are you making arbitrary accusations.
We are not suppose to point out obvious observable evidence.
Probably plied her with wine and falafal.
Be careful how your salmon is cooked.
A theory that is given little if any support by the simple existence of life 97 to 110 million years ago.
And the proof that this occurred 97 to 110 million years ago?
I've stipulated it for purposes of my exchange with OldNavyVet.
Erm - this article has squat to do with evolution. Maybe learn to recognize what evolution is and isn't before pontificating about degrees of provenness.
Might I ask what you think evolution is?
A theory that is given little if any support by the simple existence of life 97 to 110 million years ago.
From Ayn Rand, we have ...
In the history of philosophy—with some very rare exceptions—epistemological theories have consisted of attempts to escape one or the other of the two fundamental questions which cannot be escaped. Men have been taught either that knowledge is impossible (skepticism)
Sorry, you can't hide the irrelevance of your interjecting Darwin behind Rand's skirts. It's not "skepticism" to note that the existence of life 97 to 110 million years ago is entirely compatible with the falsity of Darwin's theory.
To the contrary, the existence of life 97 to 110 million years ago is entirely incompatible with Biblical, aka creationist, thinking.
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