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| Quote (The whole truth @ July 09 2012,09:08) | | Quote (OgreMkV @ July 09 2012,05:08) | | Quote (Kattarina98 @ July 09 2012,03:18) | | Creationists like to point to the morphology of "living fossils", e.g. the Tuatara or the Coelacanths, to prove that those "kinds" didn't change over millions of years. However, genetics tell a different story. |
Yes, it's a coelacanth. No, it's not the exact same species (or even genus IIRC) as the coelacanth's from 150 mya.
Perhaps if the creationists (and Joe, whatever he is) actually learned about the things before arguing using them...
what am I saying?
yes, apparently it is too much to ask for logic, consistency, and actual knowledge. |
And apparently it's too much to ask for them to actually DO any science. All they do is tell scientists HOW to do science.
joey is a good example of that. Take a look at his site and everything he says elsewhere and what do you see? Post after post of him trying to tell people how to do, define, and interpret experiments, GAs, and every other aspect of science. joey, and the other IDiots, never actually DO any science, but they sure do think that they are the only ones who know HOW to do science.
In their arrogant and feeble minds they know everything. They think that they know how to do experiments and how to interpret data. They think that they know how to define and do science better than scientists themselves. If scientists do, define, or interpret something that contradicts what the IDiots believe, the scientists must be doing it, defining it, or interpreting it wrong. joey and the rest of the IDiots believe that they are right in advance, and no amount of showing them otherwise will have any effect on them. They are experts at everything, or so they erroneously believe.
They are prime examples of the 'armchair quarterback'. They have never played the game, have never been on the field, have never even practiced, and don't even know the rules, yet they think that they have already won the Superbowl and the MVP award and should get a ticker tape parade in their honor.
The IDiots are insanely jealous, and envious. They want all of the attention, credit, and awards but aren't willing to put in the effort it takes to actually accomplish something. They spend their lives trying to make themselves feel big and smart by attacking people who have put in the effort, paid their dues, played by the rules, and received credit for their hard work.
They constantly complain about being left out (expelled) even though they have never even tried to be involved. They're not team players and they want to make up their own rules, and they think that the science 'team' or 'league' should come running to them to recruit them. They obviously think that they can make the team or league into a winner and that their superior talents and knowledge are being ignored. They believe that they have the 'right' to be the coach, the star player, the trainer, the owner, the referee, the management, and the commissioner even though they haven't even earned the privilege to be the water boy.
ETA: fixed a typo |
Excuse my digressing: I may have mentioned it before, but the coelecanth is a special friend of mine. I have a distinct memory of how during my meanderings through the city of Trondheim one day in 1938, I read in the window of the "Nidaros" daily about a fish being found, believed to have been extinct for 50 millionyears.
I was unable to make sense of it: How could they know or think it had been extinct for 50 million years when it actually still was around? Already on the path that has been mine all through life: To find out things all by myself, it didn't even occur to me that I might ask, for instance, my father about it.
I guess it wasn't before at 13, in 1943 that I read a book about paleontology that I began to understand. For a long time after that I dreamed of becoming a paleontologist.
I am relieved I never tried; reading about the hardships experienced by Richard Fortey or Neil Shubin, I know I wouldn't have made it.
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Rocks have no biology.
Robert Byers.
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