Posted on 10/21/2006 8:10:12 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon
There are?
For real?
I can see you must be a very educated person!
Belief gets in the way of learning.Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
Or did you have something else in mind?
LOL
GREAT SCOTT!
LOL
Sure it does. I graduated first in my college class with a 4.0 GPA.
And this was AFTER my conversion to Christianity and turning away from evolution.
Evolutionists and atheists aren't the only people capable of learning anything.
Nobody said you were stupid. You just believe things that are not so, which prevents you from looking at science with an open mind. Let me guess, your degree was in Italian Literature...?
And now it frantically pounds out messages on FR with women's underwear on it head.
What college and major?
Belief certainly doesn't need to get in the way of learning, but it can get in the way of accurate conclusions. Of course, it's impossible to totally exclude belief of any sort, so all conclusions will invariably be influenced by some bias.
380 million years, ooooookaaaay...so does it have a sister?
Grandpa.....grandpa....is that you?
Actually it was Applied Science, Electronics Technology. A lot of Math, Physics etc.
I would say my beliefs actually helped me grasp the sciences better.
Seriously, I was once a dedicated evolutionists...but it seems totally stupid to me now. And I feel like it makes fools of some of the most educated and intelligent people around.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
Sure it does. I graduated first in my college class with a 4.0 GPA.
And this was AFTER my conversion to Christianity and turning away from evolution.
Evolutionists and atheists aren't the only people capable of learning anything.
Read the posts again. You said that " I don't believe it validates evolution anyway."
Not, there is evidence that this is not so. Not, the evidence argues against it. You said you don't believe it.
Your ability to learn about this fossil, and the hundreds of other discoveries made each year, is precluded by your prior belief.
GPA is nice, but by your own admission you have closed your mind to the discoveries of science which do not fit with your belief system.
That's pretty sad. It must be tough to read the newspaper in the morning knowing that there might be some new discovery you will have to wave away on the basis of your prior belief.
There are fish that can go onto land today. That does not make those fish the ancestors of land animals. So this fossil has bones in its front fins similar to human arm bones. Could that be because the fish actually could go on or very close to land and would have use for fins that could support its weight out of water?
In many cases, hypothetical missing links (such as feathered reptiles) would have been weeded out by natural selection unless their oddness conferred upon them usefulness. A reptile with feathers who couldn't fly (or who could fly but the feathers would not make it easier)would use up energy making feathers--energy which could be used for other things. Also, it would be a freak, so unless it could get lots of food, was very fast, etc. how would it have children?
Macroevolution ping.
Lots of loaded keywords, on both sides.
Nonsense. Muslims have plenty of Macroevolutionists, though--as with Christianity--they shouldn't. Good try in attempting to link Creationists and Islamo-fascism, though.
I have no problem with any true scientific discoveries.
I do have problems with the conclusions some try to draw from them.
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