Hello Bex,

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Amusing RAZD "Bexolution"....If you can believe that all things arose out of chance, and have such faith in that....
Well it is clear that you are not talking about the same thing that evolutionary biologists talk about when they use the word "evolution" -- so you must be talking about something else. Either a strawman of your own making or one you have adopted without skepticism from questionable sources. It is one of the common failings of creationists -- they think they know what it means, but what they learned came from false sources and not from the science itself. Using terms with different meanings in the same argument is called equivocation, and it is one of the reasons I dislike using the term "evolution" -- you have to wade throught the muck of mythology that creationists have made. Monkey to man, goo to you, rock to human, these all are false strawmen representations that have nothing to do with real evolution, and they are devoid of any real meaning in science. Science uses terms for certain purposes, and (curiously) people outside that science don't get to redefine them, they just show ignorance of the scientific usage when they apply other meanings or tack things on that aren't included in the scientific terminology.

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Yes let's do look at the Coelacanth!
<<picture of fossil, no dimensions or other data>>
<<picture of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer with modern coelacanth, now named Latimeria chalumnae after her (note that Latimeria is the genus name not the species)>>
Ancient Coelacanth above, modern day Coelacanth below. Just remember folks, though it looks the same, or much the same. It still evolved ok?
And I am sure that Dr Latimer would be happy to tell you about the significant differences between this fish and the fossil one. The fact that you can not see them does not make them magically disappear.

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Your task, should you be capable, is to provide the evidence in the first place.
Yet whenever we do the creationists run away. The evidence is the world around you. You just need to look closely, with an open mind, and plenty of skepticism of all ideas (including religious ones).

When you are willing to approach this subject with an open mind let me know and we can explore the world of evidence. There are a couple of threads I have started on this aspect, "Evolution Explains Diversity"[/i] is one and [i]"Evolution and the BIG LIE"[/i] is another. Perhaps we can call it [i]RAZDolution while we work on it, just to keep you from being confused by creationist falsehoods. The meanings behind the words are more important than the words themselves, after all, and what we are really arguing about is the meaning, yes?

Enjoy.

ps - evolution is not a religion because it is willing to be wrong. That makes it fundamentally different from belief in something infallible.

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