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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]rukuartic said:[/b] I was never comparing Evolution to intelligent design. [/quote] True, I leapt to a conclusion there. [quote] There are problems with Evolution. Last time I read my textbook, I sure didn't see anything about the fossil record missing "transitional forms" and the outright contradiction of thermodynamic's 2nd law. [/quote] Except for two things: 1) while clearly we will never come close to having a fossil of every transitional form (i mean really....every form is transitional...that's the point ;) ), we do have a great many very distinctly transition fossil records. The idea that we don't is a creationist myth. 2) As WS demonstrated, the idea that evolution somehow contradicts any aspect of thermodynamics is a long established misconception. [quote] it contradicts science. [/quote] I would challenge you to find any credible scientific evidence for that statement. The two examples you mentioned are the standard fare of creationists, and have been answered over and over and over - you will find no significant number of scientists who will offer any support of them, and I would dare say no scientist who is not first a creationist. Among those who creationists, that - for them - trumps science and so their answers will also heed the biblical call in favor of the scientific method. I hope you can see that such a stance negates any scientific argument they might have... [quote]How about I place all the pieces of a sports car inside a large room, shake it around for a few millenia, and open to find a Porsche. [/quote] :rolleyes: speaking of ridiculous... (was that seriously meant to have a valid point? I do hope that was a half-hearted attempt at a joke...) [quote] [b]rukuartic said:[/b] so there's never been a fossil pieced together and labeled the missing link? [/quote] "the" missing link? Another absurd notion in the battle against evolution is that there is such a thing as "the missing link" (as adressed at the start of this post). I am in full support of anyone who wants to approach evolution skeptically, and evaluate the evidence that is available. That's what science is about. You will find that once you move past the creationist myths about evolution (many of which have worked into the general public), the science is there, and the facts support the theory. The more we learn, the more the evidence lines up. [url=http://in-dented.net/sigs/][img]http://in-dented.net/sigs/rotate.php[/img][/url] Loading...
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