[After previous poster explains why he believes in theistic evolution.]
Maybe, but maybe science is FAULTY!
Anyways, there is a person my Dad went to college with (at PCC) and he opened this theme park type place called Dino land (or something like that), for Christains who beleive how God actually created the earth (the Biblical way!). There, they actually FOSSILIZED a teddy bear.
What does this tell you about science now?
(the dinosaur place is in pensacola, if you want to look it up).
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For starters, theistic evolution is not science (though it's a damn sight better than creationism).
For another, there's no reason why a teddy bear couldn't be fossilized under the right conditions, but if we dug something like that up, we'd be able to tell.
First, a teddy bear is loads different than a living organism.
Second, what qualifications do you have that allow you to discuss this science? Your dad went to college with Kent Hovind? I guess that makes Tommy Lee Jones qualified to discuss the fine points of global warming since he was room mates with Al Gore. Right?
Third, shut up.
You should really read more. Really!
As to the fossilized teddy bear, are you really that gullible, sweets?
Ashleigh is such a cute little fundy name.
His name is Kent (I don't pay taxes) Hovind. You really want to use him as an example?
And if you are going to use him in an arguement at least learn his name, not "there is a person my Dad went to college with".
Yup, Fundies and intellectual laziness go hand in hand.
Let me guess, you believed old Kenty when he claimed T. Rex breathed fire didn't you?
You know, this is really inspirational. I mean, there must be tons of money to be made in the world of religous-based science denialism. And all you have to do is make insane blanket statements, disregard all real evidence, and abandon conscious.
So here I go, reborn as a fundamentalist scientist: "I left a pile of my own fecal matter to decay in the bright Arizona sun, and damnit if it didn't fossilize, This here proves god and shows Darwin to be a baby eating communist free mason."
Explain how this teddy bear was fossilized.
Did the cotton mineralize, or did it just become more solid than usual when your friend replaced it with marbles?
There, they actually FOSSILIZED a teddy bear.
Yeah, but no one is trying to show that the teddy bears and pokémons had a common ancestor.
Science can tell the difference between a millenia-old teddy bear and one that has been dunked in water full of dissolved minerals then left to dry a couple of dozen times.
Apparently, fundies can't.
What that tells me about science is that it is much more likely to get to the truth about anything than taking a fundementalist approach where the facts just have to be manipulated the right way to avoid contradicting your prior beliefs.
Hence what science considers facts, or well verified theories, are much more likely to be the truth, or at least close to it, than the blinkered ramblings of any number of fundies, however devout.
What does this tell you about science now?
It tells me that science is an interesting subject - Ashleigh should try studying it sometime.
Fossilizing a teddy bear is easy. Come back when they find one locked in the middle of a few thousand feet of undisturbed shale.
Didn't these carbon units also think the "primordial soup" consisted of peanut butter?
To begin with, osmosis would be impossible...
You don't bother to verify the name of the person you offer as a reference, you don't bother to look up the name of his theme park, and you claim that science is faulty?
I think this is what infuriates me the most about fundies: their absolutely blind arrogance.
A teddy bear and a living organism are two completley different things, and they probably wouldn't fossilize the same way. Also, you're hearing this from your dad, who went to Patriot Bible University, and unacreddited university in Colorado. I don't think your dad is qualified to challenge established scientific theories.
So dunking a Teddy bear in a bucket of cement proves that God created the dinosaurs along with everything else 6000 years ago?
How does it do that, might one ask?
Fuck, but you people are stupid.
So, Mickey Mouse is real? After all, there are not one but several theme parks in his "honour" around the world.
As far as I know, a teddy bear has no bones that can be petrified.
As your post doesn't inclued any science, it tells me nothing about science.
"Maybe, but maybe science is FAULTY!"
You are using a computer. Your argument is invalid.
...oh, and as for 'fossilisation'? One word: Concrete:
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/02/mythbusters_buried_in_concrete.html
But not the likes of Jimmy Hoffa, however. There's a lot of places in the US that something can be buried in and never found again. All those Atari 2600 "ET" cartridges, for example.
And certain Mafia gangs were wont to use Hydrochloric Acid, to get rid of bodies. PROTIP: Raw, undiluted Coca-Cola syrup will completely dissolve a human body in a week.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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