Never mind transitional species.

[frigidweirdo]

Sex within marriage is good. The problem is that few are raised to wait until marriage.

Sex is fine anywhere. If it's two consenting adults, who cares?

Again, abstinence education leads to more unwanted pregnancies.

 

[Woodznutz]

There were no horses.

Sex is fine anywhere. If it's two consenting adults, who cares?

Again, abstinence education leads to more unwanted pregnancies.

Abstinence doesn't lead to any pregnancies, or those other problems. Abstinence isn't 'taught', it's encouraged.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Abstinence doesn't lead to any pregnancies, or those other problems. Abstinence isn't 'taught', it's encouraged.

"encouraged", and does it work? Not as well as condoms.

The problem is you have to live in reality.

 

[Crepitus]

Where are the fossils of creatures that didn't make the cut?

YOU see any live tyrannosaurs around?

 

[Crepitus]

If this topic has been researched

There's a whole discipline for this. They call it "Paleontology". It's been researched for hundreds of years and is still ongoing.

 

[Woodznutz]

"encouraged", and does it work? Not as well as condoms.

The problem is you have to live in reality.

Abstinence will save you from that reality, just as other smart decisions will save you from other bad realities.

 

[Woodznutz]

YOU see any live tyrannosaurs around?

I don't see any passenger pigeons either. What was their biological flaw that cause them to go extinct?

 

[Woodznutz]

There's a whole discipline for this. They call it "Paleontology". It's been researched for hundreds of years and is still ongoing.

Then they should be able to produce the evidence; fossils with deadly of useless evolutionary flaws that weren't "selected for".

"Selected" means chosen from several possibilities. Where is the evidence of the possibilities that weren't chosen. If only successful changes were chosen/selected the process smacks of planning, purpose, and design.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Everywhere ... or do you think dinosaurs still roam the Earth ... HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW ...

Bubba didn't finish Middle School ...

^ Didn't get the "All dinosaurs are extinct" memo

 

[Woodznutz]

Why?

Everything dies.

Not everything dies in a way that leads it to be a fossil.

Nothing out there made the cut. Dinosaurs from Jurassic didn't survive to later eras.

You realize that such a statement calls for examination of all species that have also gone extinct in recent history, and the reasons why.

How is it that creatures evolved over huge periods of time despite environmental changes, some catastrophic, only to succumb to environmental changes when fully developed? If changing environments are responsible for most extinctions, then evolution is certainly impossible.

Have paleontologists and geologists gotten together and reconciled the evolution of creatures through the timelines of geological and environmental/ecological upheavals? Can you produce the evidence that reveal that evolution was possible throughout these timelines?

 

[Crepitus]

I don't see any passenger pigeons either. What was their biological flaw that cause them to go extinct?

Being tasty.

 

[Crepitus]

Then they should be able to produce the evidence; fossils with deadly of useless evolutionary flaws that weren't "selected for".

"Selected" means chosen from several possibilities. Where is the evidence of the possibilities that weren't chosen. If only successful changes were chosen/selected the process smacks of planning, purpose, and design.

So obviously you haven't even the vaguest notion how evolution works, much less biology or fossilization.

 

[Woodznutz]

The problem is you have to live in reality.

I make my own reality, as do most people.

 

[Woodznutz]

So obviously you haven't even the vaguest notion how evolution works, much less biology or fossilization.

I'm not very good at constructing an entire creature, including its environment, age, and habits from a single tiny bone fragment.

Evolution theory has some enormous gaps to fill. As it stands it presents quantum leaps with huge gaps in between. We need more details at the atomic and molecular level. Demonstrations would be helpful.

 

[Crepitus]

I'm not very good at constructing and entire creature, including its environment, age, and habits from a tiny bone fragment.

Which is why they have an entire discipline of science devoted to it.

It's hard.

Also, they don't do that from one tiny bone fragment.

 

[Woodznutz]

Which is why they have an entire discipline of science devoted to it.

It's hard.

Also, they don't do that from one tiny bone fragment.

What happens to these scientists when they conclude that they're barking up the wrong tree?

 

[Crepitus]

What happens to these scientists when they conclude that they're barking up the wrong tree?

They start climbing another one. That's the scientific method. Test your hypothesis, if it doesn't pan out try another one and test it.

 

[Woodznutz]

They start climbing another one. That's the scientific method. Test your hypothesis, if it doesn't pan out try another one and test it.

What if faced with an impossible conundrum, like the development of vision. Where from there?

 

[Crepitus]

What if faced with an impossible conundrum, like the development of vision. Where from there?

Actually they have some pretty concrete examples of that existing even in some species today., and the usefulness of it is pretty damn obvious.

I do not see a conundrum here.

 

[hadit]

There were no horses.

Get a new schtick.