First off, I appreciate Jose starting this thread and allowing the topic to be treated seriously. I realize that many people consider the global flood to be at best a mythical tale and to treat such a subject with any scientific approach might be unacceptable to some. But Jose has demonstrated patience with us creationists …
John S wrote: I mentioned this in the thread “Questions for Uniformitarianists”, but I want to caution again about making generalizations about the rock record based on a single area. I’m not sure what you mean by a “single area”. I presented pictures from 3 different areas. And by no means are the pictures unique. …
Hmm, I didn’t realize that so many people subscribed to plate tectonics. According to the poll, the number of supporters is up to 9, whereas I’m the only one dissenting. Guess I’ve got a lot of work cut out for me. First, let’s look at one typical illustration of how supposedly the plates moved – …
I’ll be giving my closing argument for this massive thread and conclude my participation. Humans descending from primates First, I’ll address the arguments presented of man descending from other primates. Chimps and humans Originally, it was claimed that humans and chimps share 99% identical DNA. And this number is still often quoted. However, the latest …
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SailingCyclops wrote: otseng wrote:The thing with a biface is that it is sharpened all the way around the edge. There is no spot to hold it safely to use it as a weapon or as an axe/hoe/knife. If I was a survivalist and had to create a tool out of chert, I would not spend …
Goat wrote:What ISN”T predicted by the ‘creation model’ is the fact that the microcephalin common ancestor is from 1 million years ago, a full 800 years before the ‘mt-eve’ ancestor’… I’m not sure what you mean by “a full 800 years”. Also, the microcephalin common ancestor is not a fact. The authors state: By using …
GrumpyMrGruff wrote: otseng wrote:However, the question is what can explain that all other female lines disappeared? In terms of the probability that only one female is the progenitor of all, I’m going to ask Zeeby in my next post about that. As Zeeby pointed out, in stochastic birth-death models like this the number of progeny …
GrumpyMrGruff wrote: As I commented above, I think the best anyone can do is appeal to parsimony for model discrimination. All things being equal, that would be reasonable. However, I’ve presented claims and predictions specifically for human origins. And there is no equivalent model from a naturalistic perspective other than presenting the general theory of …
GrumpyMrGruff wrote:Sorry about the delay. The real world intruded for a bit. No problem. It intrudes quite often on me too. We cannot observe accumulations of genotypic/phenotypic variation which occur on super-human timescales. We can observe organisms with different morphologies over time (fossils) and a hierarchical pattern of genotypic similarity in living organisms. We can …
SailingCyclops wrote: otseng wrote: Please show evidence of fire being in use in the last million years. There’s quite a bit of evidence: I think stating that there’s “quite a bit of evidence” is overstating your case. Evolution of Fire The use of fire has long been thought to have coincided with, and perhaps aided …