Re:419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' ...
by bitwize on Thursday September 26, 2013 @12:21PM
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No matter how many "missing links" are found, the die-hard fundamentalists will find a way to ask for more. I've grown up in that environment. There are discrete jumps in fossils; unless you can find a complete lineage from "a rock to a walking-talking human", no True Christian will even waver for a minute.
Nope. instead it will cement his beliefs that there is a sinister plot to weave a web of lies concealing the fact that Gawhd the Awlmighty created heaven and earth in seven literal twenty-four hour days.
I remember seeing a lecture by a Creationist "biologist" who said that in the late 1970s he looked at the old edition of an "evolution textbook" and the brand-new edition. In the old edition it said they didn't know what the link between modern cetaceans and their land-based ancestors was; the new edition claimed to have found such a link. And this was PROOF that they were lying.
I went onto Wikipedia and looked up when the fossils of early flippered cetaceans were discovered. Sure enough, it was 1979, in Pakistan.
In short, because Christian "knowledge" is circumscribed and explains everything, it is obviously correct. Because science is incomplete and has gaps that haven't yet been empirically filled in, it's obviously Satan's lies.
Nope. instead it will cement his beliefs that there is a sinister plot to weave a web of lies concealing the fact that Gawhd the Awlmighty created heaven and earth in seven literal twenty-four hour days.
I remember seeing a lecture by a Creationist "biologist" who said that in the late 1970s he looked at the old edition of an "evolution textbook" and the brand-new edition. In the old edition it said they didn't know what the link between modern cetaceans and their land-based ancestors was; the new edition claimed to have found such a link. And this was PROOF that they were lying.
I went onto Wikipedia and looked up when the fossils of early flippered cetaceans were discovered. Sure enough, it was 1979, in Pakistan.
In short, because Christian "knowledge" is circumscribed and explains everything, it is obviously correct. Because science is incomplete and has gaps that haven't yet been empirically filled in, it's obviously Satan's lies.