Posted on 12/30/2005 2:29:22 PM PST by PatrickHenry
How do they know the broken sharp stone are tools? Was there a handle strapped to one of them?
Too much guessing called science, this specimen in invalid.
The way archaeologists know about stone tools is they learn to make them, and they carefully examine the pieces produced when tools are made. Some people specialize largely in that one particular field. One of my professors had a room full of broken rocks gathered from streams, debris fields, alluvial deposits and all sorts of other places. After much study he was able to determine which were purposefully made and which were natural.
Microwear analysis is a useful technique as well. Under a microscope (often an electron microscope) you can tell if there is wear, and if it is regular. (This is also useful for examining teeth, to get some idea of diet.)
So, not as much guesswork as you might have thought. And that is just the beginning of the studies available.
This specimen is only invalid if you have closed your mind to learning.
When you don't know anything, it's very easy to imagine that there's nothing to know.
When you don't know anything, it's very easy to imagine that there's nothing to know.
Then there are these scientists. Some of them spend all their time researching their chosen fields. They get to know an awful lot after 40 or 50 years.
Were you there? No? Then it's all guesswork and fraud. Buncha godless commie homo trolls.
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Then there are these scientists.
Were you there? No? Then it's all guesswork and fraud. Buncha godless commie homo trolls.
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That's a joke, right?
Note: You spelled googol correctly. Google spells googol incorrectly.
You don't have to wait long
Apparently I do, because I'm *still* waiting.
All around you, you can see complicated items, which have function and purpose.
Such as? And even if you get around to providing some specific examples, that would not support your conclusion unless you could also provide additional evidence that things with "purpose and function" are necessarily the product of intelligence, and could not possibly exist by any other means. Until you can do that, you're just engaging in the fallacy of circular reasoning, or begging the question.
They can be proven without a doubt to have been created by intelligent beings.
They can? Cool! Present your proof.
Please present your evidence which supports the conclusion that the most complicated and purposeful items known (living things) have been spontaneously constructed by time and chance.
You mean besides the fact that we've watched new living things form by evolutionary processes? And the fact that living things form naturally? Last time I checked, puppies aren't built by committees, and in fact new ones pop up without any intelligent intervention at all.
Additionally, there is the massively overwhelming volume of evidence, along multiple cross-confirming lines, that living things are "constructed" in exactly the way that one would expect if they arose by evolutionary processes, and *not* at all in the way one would expect if they had been "created" by "design", *and* that they have, indeed, originated in such a manner (as shown by their histories). See my homepage, or perhaps this post for starters.
I asked this long ago, but there was no answer -- What is the purpose of a duck?
What is the purpose of a duck?
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_18002,00.html
To make more ducks.
How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head off
and it will keep on running and twitching
[CHORUS]
When everything seems planned out
when everything seems nicely planned out
well the human race will come and smack your face
How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!
A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching.
Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.
How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke
and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in and iron lung
and I will keep on breathing and twitching.
Crash Test Dummies
you're right.
You honestly expect someting that is supposed to be 1 MILLION years old to not age or wear so that after 1 MILLION years it still looks like it did when it was made? Enough to identify it?
You guys are hilarious! :)
No, Really, some of the theories are so funny, because no one in their right mind expects an American Indian arrowhead from the 1600's to be found as intact as any of these so-called stone tools from Lake Turkana appear to be...
Jenny, the human jaw bone when viewed from above is almost parabolic, while the ape jawbone is u-shaped.
2006 - Year of the Ape!
Because he's an extra in the new movie "The Ringer"? What do I win?
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