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#441042
Psittacosis
What?
3/22/2008 6:25:59 PM
#441045
Seabhag
Argument from stupidity (er. Ignorance). Then of course there is the fact that it sounds like he's not really read up on evolution at all ("The funny part of the theory is how the explanations are added and added on too with no evidence whatsoever.").
His thing about the dinosaurs sounds like a way to get around the whole "We have the fossils. We Win" thing.
Finally, his statement "There is no science to the theory, just conclusions, educated guesses, facts that may mean something else completely." Should be nominated for "so close yet so far". Science is all about interpreting the facts that are there. MTE is the theory that has stood up better than others to explain, interpret, predict facts. That's what science is. Not sure what he thinks science is.
3/22/2008 6:29:28 PM
#441051
KillWhitey
Does not compute.
3/22/2008 6:39:01 PM
#441053
484
3/22/2008 6:40:13 PM
#441060
Old Viking
Steve, I'm sensing a little confusion on your part.
3/22/2008 6:49:03 PM
#441083
szena
"I haven't bothered to educate myself about the evidence supporting evolution, therefore there is no evidence."
3/22/2008 7:08:25 PM
#441095
Grand Archblasphemer of York
Hrrrmmm...the conclusions are supported by the facts, whether or not you could interpret otherwise. That is what theories are...if it is supported by enough facts, then it is science. Period.
Explanations are only added on to the theory, outside of speculations for potential experiments, after it DOES have sufficient evidence to warrant its inclusion in the theory.
And, as for why dinosaurs existed "first": bigger isn't always better. In fact, the dinosaurs died out because of that fact (which, ta da, is evolution in action!)
Just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it wrong. If that we our policy for excepting scientific theories, there would NO SCIENCE!
3/22/2008 7:16:19 PM
#441100
buddtee
Try reading a fifth graders science book rather than asking your fundie friends who are just has clueless has you are.
3/22/2008 7:22:54 PM
#441116
Papabear
All science is man-made, you idiot.
Dinosaurs were very successful having existed on earth for at least 250 million years.
Your take on the ToE DOES make very little sense, but that's because your take on the ToE is almost completely in error.
3/22/2008 7:35:00 PM
#441122
Science is actually a man-made product. Nobody claims to be God there(the last part is an actual non-sequitur example)
3/22/2008 7:38:50 PM
#441125
Foster Disbelief
Steve b, you are right that something here makes very little sense. Unfortunately for you, that something isn't the Theory of Evolution.
3/22/2008 7:39:43 PM
#441128
solomongrundy
"Yahoo!Answers"?
"Yahoo! Psychedelic Dementia" would be a more accurate description of the site.
3/22/2008 7:40:52 PM
#441129
Doctor Whom
There is no science to the theory, just conclusions, educated guesses, facts that may mean something else completely.
The funny part of the theory is how the explanations are added and added on too with no evidence whatsoever.
Sounds like creationism, except that strictly speaking, creationism doesn't qualify as a theory.
3/22/2008 7:41:11 PM
#441149
Caustic Gnostic
To me the single biggest disclaimer about the theory is the dinosaurs. If evolution actually happened then why did the dinosaurs exist first? And if the dinosaurs evolved why did they become dinosaurs. And then the next life after them became all the animals of today? Makes very little sense.
That is one of the reasons scientists show their work: so that other people can learn and understand and make sense of it.
3/22/2008 7:57:13 PM
#441178
John
There is no science to the theory, just conclusions, educated guesses, facts that may mean something else completely.
You can't overthrow a scientific theory merely by inventing "what ifs" out of thin air. If there are "facts that may mean something else completely", the person making that claim has to provide some proof. You also can't overthrow a scientific theory by saying "yeah, but how come you can't answer this question"? That's called the "god of the gaps" fallacy.
3/22/2008 8:46:32 PM
#441202
tmr
Didn't I just read this? Oh, no, it is common ignorance apparently all fundies are trained to babble about.
The same arguments, with the same faulty logic. It must be a prerequisite for being a fundie; twist things to be as you want and never actually learn anything.
3/22/2008 9:08:53 PM
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3/22/2008 9:17:13 PM
#441222
Sick_Of_Fundy_Shit
"There is no science to the theory..."
Apart from archaeology, biology, physics, etc.
"If evolution actually happened then why did the dinosaurs exist first?"
Turn it around and apply the same question to creationism. Why did your god make dinosaurs first?
3/22/2008 9:30:59 PM
#441235
-i
"There is no science to the theory, just conclusions, educated guesses, facts that may mean something else completely."
Isn't that more or less what science is? Science isn't absolute truth, we never claimed it was.
3/22/2008 9:49:59 PM
#441243
Antichrist
3/22/2008 10:04:16 PM
#441266
Lithp
"There is no science, just CONCLUSIONS, EDUCATED guesses, FACTS...."
Is he for real?
3/22/2008 10:35:58 PM
#441303
sisyphus
"Makes very little sense"
Only to people with no sense to begin with.
::facepalm::
3/22/2008 11:36:29 PM
#441306
Jack Bauer
Life, the universe and everything - as described by the terminally ignorant.
3/22/2008 11:39:20 PM
#441338
cui bono
" a little over-blown" WOW thats one hell of an understatement.
delenda est fundementalisus
3/23/2008 12:44:43 AM
#441378
Osiris
Why not? This is stupid. This is stupider then making up an impossible animal and saying evolution is false because this animal doesn't exist.
3/23/2008 2:02:10 AM
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