Posted on 03/19/2006 2:28:32 PM PST by Greg o the Navy
Mar 18, 2006 — In a back row of a packed auditorium, seventh-grader Matt Frysinger and his two friends each sat with a skateboard positioned vertically between their knees and the floor. The boys had been skating in the area when they saw a sign promoting a "Creation Seminar" outside Dover Area High School.
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In the beginning, Old Man Coyote stood alone with water surrounding him. Two ducks swam by, and Coyote asked if they had seen anyone else. The ducks said no but thought that something might exist under the water.Coyote asked if they would travel underwater for him and report on what they saw. The ducks did as they were asked, finding nothing. He asked again, and the ducks returned with a root. On the third try, they found mud and Coyote was happy. He told the ducks that they could build with it, and he began to shape and mold the mud into an island. He blew on it, and it expanded. He blew again, and it grew into the earth. The ducks said they did not like the earth's emptiness, so Coyote created grass and trees out of the roots that came from the water.
Coyote and the ducks loved the earth, but it was flat. They wanted rivers, valleys, mountains, and lakes. So it was done. Soon Coyote and the ducks made a perfect earth, but they grew lonely, with only the three of them to sit and enjoy the land. So Coyote molded dirt to form men and then more mud to create many types of male ducks. Soon, they realized that without women, the males could not have children. So with more dirt he made women and female ducks to populate the earth.
One day Old Man Coyote traveled upon the land and was surprised to find another Coyote. When asked where he came from, the younger brother, named Shirape, said he was unsure of his origin and only knew he existed. As the two traveled along, Shirape wanted Old Man Coyote to make other animals, for only ducks, humans, and the two Coyotes had been created. The elder Coyote agreed, and as he spoke the new animals' names, they were created. He said "Elk" and an elk appeared. He said "Bear" and a bear appeared. This is how it was until all animals were created.
Tell that to someone who survived malaria because he carried (was heterozygous for) the sickle cell gene. Sure sounds like useful DNA to have if you're planning to live in central Africa.
ROTFL. Not a single one of that impressive looking collection is a proven transitional fossil. Not one. How do I know this? Because there ARE NO PROVEN TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS that show an ape-to-man transition. None. It was the huge glaring hole in Darwinism according to Darwin, and it's the huge glaring hole today. A tiny skull or jawbone fragment is found somewhere and then "extrapolated," or there's no mention of the fact that similar ape/monkey/chimp skulls still exist in today's living species, or among today's human population.
Your entire collection of skulls is smoke and mirrors, and the bottom line is this: For the (probably small percentage of) authentic/accurately depicted skulls in that collection, each of them is either ape/monkey/whatever, or it's human. Anything else is purest conjecture based not on scientific evidence, but on a starting point that assumes Darwinistic evolution as a baseline, not a finding.
If any one of those skulls constituted solid proof, the evolutionists would parade it around the world ad nauseum. They don't because everytime you dig just beneath the surface of these "transitional fossils," they're quickly revealed to be scientifically laughable. Then a new element of the theory is quickly hatched to replace that which was considered gospel yesterday.
Sad truth: The evolutionists of today were clearly described and predicted a couple thousand years ago. They are the prophesied scoffers, people who choose to be willfully ignorant of the obvious truths about them. They drag out a bunch of conjecture, speculation, and tissue-thin "evidence" created by ever-fallible man over the past 150 years, and have the absurd gall to spit in the face of the God who made them.
Over and out.
MM
So which ones are apes and which ones are people?
Famous last words.
I've often said that ID and creationism should be studied in rhetoric class.
Sorry, but you certainly are not a scientist. Your shameless promotion of evolution philosophy proves that.
That's about the best term I've heard yet to describe an attempt to have an honest debate with one of those deceivers. Evolution: Mud philosophy.
The mutation that caused feline leukemia virus to infect dogs is an example of a useful mutation.
Easy for most of them. A through I are clearly apes of one sort or another, since they have absolutely nothing in common with humans, While J,K, M and N are essentially skull shapes that are found in many people living today. When Duane Gish's skull is dug up some day, he'll definately be grouped with 'cromagnon.' ;o)
You forgot to include a large number of Free Republic members and their own slimy rock.
It defies logic why Creationists equate belief in the fact of evolution with liberalism.
And, as Patrick Henry correctly warns, and as witnessed by the demise of the Dover School Board creationist majority, fanatical adherence to Creationism will eventually cost the GOP elections.
1) That was a nice little dance around my question.
2) Fossils aren't easy to find, nor do they just happen to be scattered everywhere. It takes a right amount of circumstances to create them in the first place, which is why there aren't "millions of them".
Now, would you kindly answer my question?
Every fossil is a transitional fossil.
The bottom line is this, knowledge is readily available and people are not so gullible as to believe in evolution. There are still a few out there that possess common sense and critical thinking skills and rightfully questioning the flawed hypothesis of evolutionists. This outrages evolutionists. They've become little gods. People are not finding their hypothesis to reveal truth.
Mr. Hovind sounds -- from this story -- like a lightweight. But getting a crowd of 600 for anything conservative is impressive. Also, kudos to the organizers for holding it in the public high school. Exactly the kind of move we need to make!
When both sides are able to identify and agree to those issues, the debate can be quite interesting (IMHO).
Mud philosophy? Its science, perhaps you don't have that in the 1400's where you live.
placemarker
I suggest you take the following test
Your test doesn't come back with any results for me. I suspect they don't appreciate my sense of humor.
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