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Hi Tresmantra, Here are my thoughts / criticisms of this hypothesis: 1. I would expect a source for their claim regarding how much water is used in producing vegetables. The biggest waste of water in gardening involves the delivery system and primarily evaporation. A plant will use a certain...

The description of the video says: While he can get the computer animation to simulate geocentrism, it could not work according to Newtonian mechanics, could it? What mechanism could possibly drive the planets and sun to move in such strange, spiral orbits (besides the spirograph)? Not...

No, in fact, IIRC, human chromosome 2 contains genes that are not even in the chimp chromosome, so expression cannot be identical. I don't think the point is that they are expressed identically, but that there is no particular advantage to way they are packaged. Here is a link to a modern...

Good post Rumraket. I am not very familiar with the details, just the general, overall concepts, nor do I have time to flesh all of that out. So your posts were a great extension and support for my points. However, you missed an important quote from Theobald ABE: (oops, sorry, I just...

WOW ... :roll: As if ...

I don't think you have made a good enough case that the concept of common descent is a metaphysical belief. I understand your contention that common descent is being touted as an undeniable fact lending to the impression that it is protected from falsification. It is easy for people to get...

Hi lifepsyop First, I want to say that it is refreshing to see a Creationist who works through their own argument and doesn't just regurgitate the same old PRATTs. I can see you have put some work into your argument and that is very commendable. I just want to throw a couple of things out...

You must have missed this I think the most convincing thing regarding Tiktaalik is the prediction it confirmed. You touched on the issue, but I think you should pursue it further. Here is a great, interactive site that explains how the scientists searched for Tiktaalik by predicting its age...

Quote of the day: "How can one be taught critical thinking and still be an evolutionist?" - Gilbo HBD

I realize what the point is, but it was a dumb way to make that point. I don't think any evolutionists would deny that humans were quite advanced 5 or 6 thousand years ago. I mean, we have the Egyptian pyramids that are over 4500 years old that would have required some rather advanced...

He is one of the more knowledgeable regulars over there, but I wouldn't call him coherent. He has 3 basic talking points 1. He likes to point out what he thinks are logical fallacies (while ignoring his own, of course). 2. He likes to state that there is no experimental evidence that connects...

Yea, I saw this ... since when does iron fossilize ???? :shock: This seems to be gilbo's source But this story seems to have some circulation this seems to be one of the better treatments of this find. However, there are a lot of things that make this find questionable. The chemical...

Yea, I called them on this inconsistency - especially Gilbo - but he danced around and around. :? So did you get banned? HBD

Yea, the ban itself is a filter, but once you log in, it keeps you logged in so that you cannot access the forum at all. That part is done with a cookie. Yea, this would be kinda pointless. Everyone pretty much knows this is how it works. They can't present one thing I did that even remotely...

I don't know. Others that have been banned have "banned" noted on their profile. But its not there for me either and I am still unable to access. I emailed Fred Williams (the site owner / administrator) and inquired as to if and why I had been banned, and he said he will look into it, but as of...

The block is based on keeping you logged in via a cookie, so you only need delete the related cookie. But yea, they don't want you posting quotes to "stupidest things a creationist has ever said" threads all over the internet. :lol: HBD

Yea, lucky. :roll: I pretty much already realized it was just a colossal waste of time posting over there, I think I had maybe 2 decent responses in ~100 posts. The reading comprehension alone is atrocious. But add in the moving goalposts, red herrings and general denial ... there is really...

Apparently so am I... I got the same error, although when I have seen others banned it states on their profile that they are banned. So I don't know??? I am curious if any of the creationists were considered to be whiners HBD

Thanks for you responses ... Exactly. It seems these guys think that observation means just "looking at something." I also got the impression that they think that experiment is limited to a controlled experiment. I see the important aspect is that for anything to be considered a test it needs...

I would say that there is legitimate confusion in the general public regarding the use of the term "evolution." I would actually say there is three main ways that the term evolution is used, based on what I have been taught and what I have observed in these debates. (I posted this over at EFT...