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My personal favorite is icthyosaurs and dolphins.

Simple.We don't know everything. Neither do you.We have several tentative scientific possibilities.And this has nothing to do with fossils.Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

The universe exists. Earth exists. Animals, including man, exist.This is the obvious starting point for discussing fossils.How those things came to exist is another topic.Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

There's a widely known "square-cube" law. As size increases, the surface area goes up by the square of the change and the mass goes up by the cube of the change. "surface area" includes things like the cross-section, i.e. strength, of bones. So there is a point at which you just can't have that big a human with human anatomy and capable of standing up without breaking bones.Figuring out how big that would be is probably not practical, but there is a limit.

Claim: The skeleton of a giant human was uncovered during gas exploration in Saudi Arabia.

"Skeleton of Giant" Is Internet Photo HoaxPretty likely that's too big to be a functional human.

No, I can't. Please explain in detail how that's a double standard. Dawkins will give you references to the raw data.

It is not obvious why what you have provided supports your position.Please explain.And, yes, it is your place to provide evidence.

Prove it. List those sites with references to the literature.

I posted this as a pretty obvious hoax. I don't think Al has posted any such images. Claim: The skeleton of a giant human was uncovered during gas exploration in Saudi Arabia.

Before posting such twaddle you should learn what "spontaneous generation" and "Punctuated Equilibrium" mean. They are not even close to meaning the same thing.

You have a real problem with English meanings. Gradualism in this context does not mean what you think. gradualism:

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In the natural sciences, gradualism is the theory which holds that profound change is the cumulative product of slow but continuous processes, often contrasted with catastrophism. The theory was proposed in 1795 by James Hutton, a Scottish geologist, and was later incorporated into Charles Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism. Tenets from both theories were applied to biology and formed the basis of early evolutionary theory.

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Growing a foot overnight would be saltation. Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

The ol' "we don't know everything therefore we know nothing" PRATT.Polls would be a good analogy. What percentage of the electorate gets polled? Of course the analogy breaks down when you consider how the samples are selected, and there is known bias in the fossils we have. But there is useful and verifiable information in what we have. Especially when you see the obvious nested hierarchy they form.

It's Socratic teaching.

You're right about that map. I was involved in a discussion of exactly that at at Talk Rational which I can't find now. I will look again.

Ah: Geological Provincialism | The Institute for Creation Research

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By the way, the rock layer called the Tapeats Sandstone is not restricted to Grand Canyon. The same rock layer in central Utah is known as the Tintic Quartzite; in northeastern Utah it is the Lodore Quartzite; in Wyoming and Montana it is the Flathead Sandstone; in Colorado it is the Sawatch Sandstone; in South Dakota it is the Deadwood Quartzite; in the Midwest it is the St. Simon Sandstone; in the Ozarks it is the Lamotte Sandstone; and in northern New York state it is the Potsdam Sandstone. The confusion of names should not obscure the fact that it is one continuous sandstone layer; the Potsdam Sandstone of the Northeast is unbelievably similar to the Tapeats Sandstone of Arizona, complete with the Great Unconformity at the base and worm burrows near the top!

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Testy Explains the Layers Which Include the Tonto Group - Page 68:

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Look at the formations you listed. Different depths, different compositions, some metamorphic. Obviously the same, right?

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