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Joined: Mar 2008
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When a story is internally inconsistent, I reject it. Same happens when it includes special pleading or other fallacies.
"Dinosaurs evolved into a 'primitive bird', which was the ancestor of all birds at a time when 'modern birds' already existed." That's an internally inconsistent story. I don't think anyone can actually believe it on their own. Those who make a large enough effort may receive divine assistance.
Enter special pleading: "The 'primitive bird' had actually been around longer - it just doesn't turn up in the fossils". On the principle that things can exist without leaving fossils, the whole evostory can be discarded if one so chooses. Or is there some rule that special pleading is valid in emergency situations to salvage failing faith?
Since you claim that things cannot exist without leaving fossils, perhaps you could show me the bunny fossils in the Cambrian deposits. Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time? OK, why are the human fossils and dinosaur fossils never in the same layer of deposits and the dinosaurs are always in older deposits? Just one more claim I never made (not that anyone should try to keep count).
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
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