N.Wells
Posts: 1836
Joined: Oct. 2005
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So you went to a forum that explicitly says it is restricting posting to pro-creation folks and is not looking for discussion so much as affirmation. And it turns out that they don't like your version of intelligent design either!
That is a forum that provides a safe haven for people like Sal Cordova to push the same garbage that he got nailed on back on ARN ["So in two existing lines (coelecanths and lungfish), the creatures stayed the same for 300 or more million years, not very much change, whereas the 3rd line (Tetramorpha) evolved into all the tetrapods....."]
Worse, it is an exceptionally clueless forum in that it is full of uninformed people asking questions about how science explains things that they don't understand, but where people who could provide actual relevant scientific expertise are unable to post unless they were willing to fib about their opinions. The following are some examples of some of the non-mysteries that perplex them:
Can unguided evolution explain animal instinct? "How do birds know to build nests, sit on their eggs, etc.? How do baby turtles know to head for the ocean when all they've ever known is the inside of an egg? How do alligators know not to eat the birds that sit in their mouths and clean their teeth (or whatever they're doing in there)? Are they all just playing follow the leader? ................... I'm wanting to use this on my list of 'things unguided evolution can't provide'. Is this a valid entry to that list?"
Why do modern giraffes exist? "How did this beneficial adaptation come to be? If you are of the evolutionary theory mindset and giraffes shared a common ancestor with deer or bovids and the long neck (or long front legs) was for reaching food sources out of reach of other kin... than how did the adaptation work? ........ How does this work in regards to beneficial adaptation?"
I have some questions about rock formations and boulders I took pictures of in the lake district "http://imgur.com/a/ygKDP .............. I am a young earth creationist. How were these formations in the rock formed? From a creationist perspective? You can see from the photos of the waterfall that there is layers to the rock which seem to have been lifted up or fallen sideways. Before the flood were these layers laid down horizontally or vertically? Or were they formed during the flood? Would be interesting to know the secular explanation as well. Also, how did the massive boulders get into the valley? I'm assuming the flood deposited them there? After doing a google search apparently glaciers do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.......erratic
Surely the flood also has something to do with it also."
(The photos are of many different rock types representing complex bedrock geology cropping out in an absolutely classic post-glacial landscape with lovely tarns [cirques], u-shaped valleys with underfit streams, and glacial erratics all over the place:
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap.....hs1.htm
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw.......300.jpg
And due to asking in the wrong venue he gets some partial to not very good answers from non-geologists.)
Have evolutionists come up with explanations for the supposed transition between the reptilian lung to the avian lung?
What do the dog skulls in the upper banner on this sub page show?
Answer from JoeCoder: "The canine skulls? I'm the one that designed the banners, including that one. ...... Unless you know a few specific features to look for, the canine wolf skull is more similar to marsupial wolves than most of the dogs. " - [That's not exactly true. There are indeed some impressive similarities, but there are also many much more significant major differences that are indicative of a very distant relationship. The features (extra teeth and notably different shapes to teeth in the thylacine, no distinctive huge carnassial teeth in the thylacine, two humungous openings in the roof of the rear of the mouth that are not present in the wolf, and a much greater gape than a wolf) are known to anyone who has studied comparative anatomy, famously not including undergrad zoology and premed students at Oxford and idiot creationists worldwide. Also, if you look past the skull, unlike the wolf, it couldn't run very fast it could hop bipedally, it had a pouch, and it gave birth to what a wolf would consider a highly undeveloped embryo.]
So are there transitional fossils or not?
Northern Flying Squirrel - How would this adaptation evolve slowly?
Question about the age of the sun and life on earth
Apparently human lice and gorilla lice are related as well?
How plausible is the evolutionary idea that bacteria were engulfed by eukaryotic cells and then they and the host underwent 'coevolution' and then the bacteria evolved into mitochondria or hydrogenosomes?
What exactly are transposons, and what is their relevance in the evolution debate?
Has any plausible Darwinian explanation been proposed for the origin of the immune system?
If they actually wanted answers to those questions, why are they asking people who are guaranteed not to know?
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