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Creationist's Problem: Fossil Layers and Humans

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crashfrog
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Message 33 of 69 (106402)
05-07-2004 6:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 32 by Proboscis
05-07-2004 5:56 PM

So there would have to be way more intermediate fossils.
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The problem with your logic, though, is that every one of those transitional fossils is itself an individual species. How could it be otherwise?
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There are plenty of transitional fossils, like Acritoparamys atavus. Every one of them, at the same time, is an individual species.
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You need to rethink your logic, because you're asking for something that can't possibly exist - organisms that belong to no species. How could that be?
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11-18-2004 11:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 54 by TheClashFan
11-18-2004 11:07 PM

I don't think that we have ever been fish or amphibians, but we have made adaptations to our environments and sins.
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The same genetic techniques we use to establish paternity of a child inform us that we're related to those organisms, too.
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If you accept it in the first case, why not the second?
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11-19-2004 7:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 57 by TheClashFan
11-18-2004 11:57 PM

In the Old Testament, humans once lived to be hundreds of years old, and now we live to maybe 80 is we're lucky. That alone has to say that adaptation has occured.
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Did it occur to you that maybe the things that the Bible says happened didn't happen at all?
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Did you know that it's a common literary technique in mythology to inflate the age of legendary persons to make them seem more heroic?
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11-20-2004 11:04 AM 		Reply to: Message 62 by TheClashFan
11-19-2004 8:58 PM

That's why those of us who belive in the Bible belive in it through our hearts.
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Then does it make much sense to bring it into discussions we're having with our heads?
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