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Knob.

Posted: 04-10-2013 22:42 Post subject:

In a way I almost like how he gets around theropods having sharp pointy teeth. "They used to have herbivore teeth, but after the Fall they became carnivore teeth, which is why you don't find any evidence to back up my claims in the fossil record!"

Denial is not just a river in Egypt it seems.

Posted: 05-10-2013 10:55 Post subject:

It probably sounds like a new idea if you haven't heard it before, tbh some of the born agains I used to hang around with about 20 years back used to hold beliefs like that.

The idea that creationists are anti-evolution isn't strictly accurate, they're quite happy to accept that evolution may have occurred post-fall so that things that are so nasty god could not possibly have made them can exist.

Posted: 05-10-2013 12:57 Post subject:

From what I've read and heard (which is probably way too much, lol) they're quite happy with what they call 'micro evolution' (so that all cats are descended from one sort of 'proto-cat' made by god, for example); it's what they call 'macro evolution' (one 'type' evolving into another, like birds from reptiles) that they have a problem with.

Posted: 05-10-2013 19:23 Post subject:

Actually, creationists, born agains, etc. don't believe that we're animals at all.

Posted: 07-10-2013 20:27 Post subject:

Speaking as someone with "faith", I find 99.9% of creationists immensely irritating in their bloody-minded resistance to reason. Almost as bad as scientists (joke)

Posted: 08-10-2013 09:50 Post subject:

Without wanting to upset your trust in 'science', macro-evolution as yet is unproven. (Or at least the mechanism by which it is achieved is still uncertain). The actual proper scientists know this, of course, its the way things are reported for common consumption that distorts the picture. It doesn't invalidate the theory, but it is why it is still a theory.

As it happens, it doesn't bother me either way - I dare say if God had wanted to make macro-evolution work He would have been perfectly capable Smile