[9 links in the dinosaur to bird transition]
Lisa in OK:
And I have plenty of evidence that yachts evolved from rowboats . . . lol. I mean, it's obvious. Just look at them. They are both "boat" shaped and float on water. It can't be possible that humans saw that a rowboat was a good design and decided to use it to make bigger boats. No, rowboats just grew molecularly into bigger boats. Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it. Gotta love it. What I wonder why it even matters to them. Why are they spending so much time and effort trying to prove something like this? In the end, it doesn't matter anyway.
FrankBeMe:
I've seen this commercial every now and then on National Geographic channel, that says birds evolved from dinosaurs and that whales were once land mammals. Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins. The rest saw this, thought it was way cool and jumped in too! Of course some didn't like it, but found that if they went back to land, their legs didn't come back so they were stuck with fins forever.
Not Perfect, But Forgiven:
I agree. They have to start making up more creative ideas to this thing. This is getting boring. If you're going to decieve people, at least make it less obvious that you're a moron. God's Word layed all this out eons ago, and here we have these Johnny come lately's with their huge pensions and tenure on the line making up all this garbage about "transitions." I say get a real life. "Keep trying" sums it up pretty good my friend.
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Hah, so a brainless idiot who spends her days posting on a Christian fundamentalist site is telling people who are out in the real world, making contributions to scientific progress and achieving academic greatness to "get a life"?
That's rich.
EBILUTION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! :facepalm:
Lol, could it be any less obvious that YOU'RE a moron?
Yeah, keep trying, we'll keep laughing.
How about you try and refute some of that supposedly "bogus" science instead of devising a straw man and attack an alleged agenda of money and tenure?
Oh, that's right, you're unable to, so instead you fling ad hominems. Pathetic.
... here we have these Johnny come lately's with their huge pensions and tenure on the line making up all this garbage about "transitions."
Yeah, they should get honest jobs, like televangelist Benny Hinn, who told his flock to pay for a shining cathedral and then pocketed the money.
"Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it."
No, actually they hate it because they've answered the question a million times but you guys just ignore the answer.
If you're going to decieve people, at least make it less obvious that you're a moron. God's Word layed all this out eons ago,
make it less obvious that you're a moron. God's Word layed all this out eons ago,
you're a moron. God's Word layed all this out eons ago
This is getting boring
I agree, so give it a fucking rest already. You morons don't accept evolution because 1. you have no fucking clue what it actually is, as has been shown by the many fundy posts here, and 2. your book doesn't teach it, it teaches fantasy and fairy tale, and to reject what's real. We fucking get it. Now please STFU and jump off a cliff.
Here is another perfect example of how religion rots brains. This fundie does not have many cells left and has totally lost his capacity to think logically. Don't you just love his propensity to use words like 'crazy' and 'moron'. What the hell do have huge pensions have to do with evolution?
Oh! I know. God created everything, except his own money.
Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins. The rest saw this, thought it was way cool and jumped in too! Of course some didn't like it, but found that if they went back to land, their legs didn't come back so they were stuck with fins forever.
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Judging by how much I have listened to professors worry about their 401(K)s lately, I'm going to have to call bullshit on the "huge pension" bit. I finally bookmarked Yahoo finance last fall because so many instructors were asking me to check how the markets were doing during class.
Since everybody else handled the obvious deficiencies in grade school science*, I figured I'd point out that professors aren't exactly retiring to Italian villas when they hang up their PowerPoint slides for good. Which these guys would know if any of them had gone to a college other than Clown, Bible or Beauty.
* Standing offer to Rapture Ready Retards: My seven year old would be happy to explain this shit to you in very small words. Well, mostly small words, with a smattering of long ones and some in Latin. If he can understand these things, you, as adults, are certainly capable of doing so. I promise, you haven't lived until you've had the evolution of the genus Homo explained to you by a small child with a big brain and a bitchin' mohawk.
Although they are all idiotic, FrankBeMe's post is filling me with rage and I can't really describe why. Something along the lines of GOD DAMMIT WHY WON'T YOU PICK UP A BOOK (not the bible) AND LEARN THINGS?
edit: @LM: Holy crap, I don't even know your kid and I like him already.
all fundies: 'just show us *one* transitional form'
[they are shown lots of transitional forms]
fundie: 'I dont see how nine transition forms is plenty of evidence...seems like their should be more'
Why can't these people have some wacky 'no sex, even in marriage' belief? Why does it have to be fucking 'Quiverfull'? Jesus...
"Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it."
If creation is true why is there still dirt? I love this question becuase you have no logical way to explain it.
"Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it"
Fundies & Creationists hate it when we say "if men were created from dirt, why is there still dirt" because they have no logical way to explain it
You deny that birds evolved from dinosaurs? There's evidence to prove you wrong (and why you always bang on about fossils 'being the work of the Devil' and 'God placed them there to test our faith') and it's summed up in one word:
Archaeopteryx.
Considering that's not how evolution works and boats are not living organisms, I'd say you fail.
Evolution does not work that way. And it takes time. Considering the shape of the body and whatnot, I'd say it can be accurate. that they adapted that way.
We have a real life. You keep trying. We already have the evidence on our side.
And I have plenty of evidence that yachts evolved from rowboats
Living objects and non living objects.
Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it
No we hate it, because it is utterly ridiculous.
Common ancestor. Do you understand?
for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins
Magic is not in science, but it is in your bible. It was a slow process over million of years.
If you're going to decieve people, at least make it less obvious that you're a moron
You already are making it obvious.
and here we have these Johnny come lately's with their huge pensions and tenure on the line making up all this garbage about "transitions."
You mean scientists?
Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it.
Even Ken Ham's "Answers In Genesis" says this is a stupid argument that creationists shouldn't use. It's like saying "if your ancestors came from Ireland, why are there still Irish?"
Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins.
So why aren't Jewish men born without foreskins?
That's not evolution. That's Lamarckism. It was popular with Stalin's pet biologist, Lysenko. But the rest of the scientists rejected it long ago.
"Why are they spending so much time and effort trying to prove something like this?"
Because idiots are spending even more time and effort trying trick people into thinking it isnt true. Those of us who are even moderately sane do not want the western world to slide back into the dark ages.
"Johnny come lately's with their huge pensions and tenure"
I smell an axe grinding....
I'm guessing that these scientists' "huge pensions" aren't even a fraction of what, say, your average televangelist, megachurch preacher, or Ken Ham make.
Also, I don't usually address others' grammar and spelling, but I found it hilarious that NPBF called someone else a "moron" and then said that "God's Word layed all this out".
"I've seen this commercial every now and then on National Geographic channel, that says birds evolved from dinosaurs and that whales were once land mammals. Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins. The rest saw this, thought it was way cool and jumped in too! Of course some didn't like it, but found that if they went back to land, their legs didn't come back so they were stuck with fins forever."
"Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins."
"one of the creatures"
One of the creatures. No wonder these imbeciles think evolution has never been observed. They actually want to see a catfish turn into a cat before their very eyes. Its like they're plumbing new depths of stupidiy rarely even (if ever) seen in the animal kingdom.
@LM: I consider myself fairly well versed in the theory of evolution - less than some, more than others - and I want to hear your kid explain it to me. He sounds awesome. :D
"Yeah....for some crazy reason, one of the creatures, just out of the blue, decided to jump the water and magically turn its legs into fins. The rest saw this, thought it was way cool and jumped in too! Of course some didn't like it, but found that if they went back to land, their legs didn't come back so they were stuck with fins forever. "
E.V.O: Search For Eden is many things, including a fun game, but is it not a documentary...
@ "Lisa in OK", "FrankBeMe" and "Not Perfect, But Forgiven" from Rapture Ready:
You clearly either do not understand much about the study of evolutionary biology, or are pretending not to understand much about it in order to support your beliefs.
How about you read about evolutionary biology and find out what the scientists really believe about the processes before you attack straw men? If you become more informed you will make Christians look less like idiots.
Your cause is not being helped by the fact that you appear to be so willfully ignorant on the subjects you choose to comment on.
"God's Word layed all this out eons ago..."
That would be impossible if - according to your ludicrous theology - this universe is less than 10,000 years old. An eon is 10,000 years long so there can't have been more than one eon. You people really need to make up your minds, or learn the proper definition of words.
Sigh! Men did not come from apes, we both have a common ancestor. You won't listen to logic, that is why you think there is none. But you are right about one thing, it does not really matter, evolution keeps happening anyway.
Sigh again. One individual did not jump into the ocean and magiced fins, that would mean there was some kind of deity involved. Several individuals started playing in the sea a lot, almost living there, some of them s-l-o-w-l-y, over thousands of years, developed fin-like forearms and they became more prosperous and they stayed in the ocean. (When I first heard that a dog-like creature probably made it back to the ocean millions of years ago, it made perfect sense immediately. Seals and sea lions do still look dog-like.)
It does not matter what we think, it is going on anyway. We are just trying to explain what we see, instead of trying to see what the scripture says.
I can certainly see that these people are ignorant of biology, but it's not their ignorance or even stupidity that bothers me... it's their smugness. As if to say "I don't understand it so I reject it, and that makes me right and you are wrong".
Lisa, have you ever seen a rowboat giving birth?
Evolution is driven by procreation, natural selection, random mutations.
Men don't come from apes, we ARE apes. See, a very logical explanation.
No hate whatsoever. Just exasperation; having to say the same thing over and over and over again.
Magic needs some kind of supernatural agent. We "evolutionists" don't believe in the supernatural.
The thing that is getting boring is you people, refusing to take very solid facts as facts.
You are hogging all moronity out there, there is none left for us.
> > Lisa in OK writes:
Evolutionists hate it when we we say "if men come from apes, why are there still apes" because they have no logical way to explain it.
We hate it because we're tired of explaining the same thing over and over a million times.
If John Doe's great great great grandfather was a Smith, then why are there still Smiths?
"I say get a real life."
Excuse me, did one of the folks who sits around waiting for their invisible sky-daddy to whisk them off the planet just tell me to get a real life? If you people had any idea what life really is, you wouldn't be Rapture groupies!
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