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Study: Dinosaur demise didn't spur species
AP via Yahoo! ^ | 3-28-07 | MALCOLM RITTER

Posted on 03/28/2007 12:18:37 PM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Quicker, cleaner and recognizable.

But we are so visually oriented now.

You'd need 972 MORE words in your post just to get one picture!


41 posted on 03/28/2007 1:10:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: microgood

Well.... just who WOULDN'T want to pounce on Raquel?


Tastes just like chicken....


No, chickens CAME from dinos, so we know what THEY tasted like!!!

--EvoDude


42 posted on 03/28/2007 1:13:06 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Southack
A theory that is not falsifiable is not scientific.

There ya go!

43 posted on 03/28/2007 1:14:15 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

No beef from me.

And, just men are visually oriented. Americans, on the whole, are soundbite oriented (as your photo proves).


44 posted on 03/28/2007 1:15:10 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: KingRonnie9
"I don't know what you guys think is so whacked about believing that dinosaurs were still around a few thousand years ago. "

Hey, if that is the case, then the Egyptians could have used Triceratops to haul those big stones while building the pyramids! Thanks for solving a great mystery! (And all this time I thought the Flintstones was ...fiction!)

45 posted on 03/28/2007 1:17:42 PM PDT by johnandrhonda (have you hugged your banjo today?)
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I kind of wonder how much they can really tell because fossil evidence is so spotty even with the thousands of samples they do have.

Its similar to trying to reconstruct a book from a small pile of dust.

But then theories ARE meant to be revised as more information is found.


46 posted on 03/28/2007 1:59:00 PM PDT by wodinoneeye
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To: Southack
A theory that is not falsifiable is not scientific.

I am interested in understanding how the theory that random mutation plus natural selection produced human beings from the primordial slime can be tested.
47 posted on 03/28/2007 1:59:13 PM PDT by SirLinksalot
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To: johnandrhonda
It would explain blond and red hair, blue eyes, and extreme sexual dimorphism found in European races.

None of the genetics studies I have seen have excluded the possibility that we (Europeans) have some Neanderthal blood.

Ever watch the "world's strongest man" contests? If those Icelanders don't have a little Neanderthal in them, then they must be part alien.
48 posted on 03/28/2007 2:37:01 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Pharmboy

I'm quite happy that dinosaurs have checked out of hotel Earth. Walking into my stable and seeing a T-Rex munching on my horse would be distressing. Plus when talking about protection under the 2nd amendment, we'd be discussing preferred types of canons, not rifles.

Honey, did you pick up any 20mm shells at Wal-mart yesterday?


49 posted on 03/28/2007 3:01:54 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Ice-cubes melting in the sun is an act of God. Get over it, Gore.)
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To: Elsie

HA....

hey whatever...I ate medium rare cow tonite....chargrilled to perfection......I'm a R.C. believer in evo....after that nasty debacle with galileo some centuries back, the church has decided to leave the science to the scientists and the nurishment of souls to the church.

BTW...I worked with a woman from India (one of those Christian Indians who realized it was safer to come here than practice her religion there....) and her name was Elsie. and she didnt find cows to be sacred.


50 posted on 03/28/2007 3:20:23 PM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: KingRonnie9
I don't know what you guys think is so whacked about believing that dinosaurs were still around a few thousand years ago.

There's no scientific evidence that dinosaurs were still around a few thousand years ago.

51 posted on 03/28/2007 4:01:02 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Pharmboy

"She turned me into a newt."

"Well, I got better." LOL. I think I'll be down here in the slime for awhile.


52 posted on 03/28/2007 4:27:51 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Southack
That would be the probability math for sequencing genetic data.

Do you consider yourself a better mathematician or more qualified than Yockey?

Perhaps since you were unwilling to provide a specific example of what you mean on the other thread, you would honor us with one on this thread.

53 posted on 03/28/2007 4:30:48 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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To: js1138

I'm the only one who has *ever* provided probability math in these threads.

In contrast, you Evolutionists offer nothing but incessant requests for yet more proof of your long-since-debunked theory.

You certainly can't, and most certainly won't, post your *own* probability math.

You pretend to not understand. You make demands. You don't respond with facts or math of your own.

It's a predictable pattern.


54 posted on 03/28/2007 6:23:21 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

"Sorry, we're fresh out of mango sauce. How about some reptile blood - you people like that, don't you?"


55 posted on 03/28/2007 6:29:46 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Another irrevocable truth bites the dust


56 posted on 03/28/2007 6:31:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: Southack
I'm the only one who has *ever* provided probability math in these threads.

So do you consider yourself to be a better mathematician than Yockey, or better qualified?

There is a simple reason why the rest of us do not post mathematical calculations of probability. First, you cannot calculate the probability of events whose details are unknown, as with the origin of life. Second, in actual laboratory research, point mutations explore the entire available space of possibilities. The probability of finding the best fit, when all possibilities are tried, is one.

So in one instance, probability theory is currently irrelevant, because we don't know the history. In the second case, it is irrelevant because the coin is tossed until the winning side comes up.

Again, do you consider yourself to be a better mathematician than Yockey?

57 posted on 03/28/2007 7:20:42 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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To: js1138
"There is a simple reason why the rest of us do not post mathematical calculations of probability. First, you cannot calculate the probability of events whose details are unknown, as with the origin of life."

The big picture is known. You have to have a proper sequence (one of many) of genetic data in order to even have a chance at having life.

You can debate the length of the DNA sequence (and the number of unique codons/bits used), but not the probability math for the sequencing.

Yockey's probability math, by the way, is valid. Evolutionists find flaws with his initial assumptions, yet still manage to only poke a hole in his final conclusions *IF* life can somehow be created with a 2-codon sequence...something never seen.

That's a very weak scientific position for Evolutionists...they have to depend on faith...faith that life can be created with only 2 unique codons.

...and there's utterly no *evidence* to support that thin belief.

58 posted on 03/28/2007 7:33:36 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

OK, so you seem to be arguing against abiogenesis rather than against evolution. Right? Yockey has declared Darwinian evolution to be proven. You agree with him on this point. Right?


59 posted on 03/28/2007 7:38:26 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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To: js1138

No one is arguing against abiogenesis!

It's axiomatic that abiogenesis occured, as we are here!


60 posted on 03/28/2007 9:24:01 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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