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Techno2000
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Yeah… it’s kind of like rossum’s Theory that the birds and the dinosaurs were all partying together like it was 19,999,999 until the meteor took the dinosaurs out .
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I would disagree here. I suspect that most Theistic Evolutionists think that the flood was a large local flood somewhere in the Middle East, which was taken into the Bible and used as a parable.
There was a real flood, but it was local, not worldwide. See the Epic of Gilgamash for another version of what was probably the same original flood.
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Curious11
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That’s nonsensical. You don’t see a kid grow up into a teenager if you keep looking at him for 1 hour. Leave the House, come back in a year and you’ll see the difference.
Same here, evolution occurs in timescales so large none of us will ever see it in our lifetimes. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t occur. Dinosaurs became extinct precisely because of environmental changes so large and sudden that natural selection could not keep up their adaptations. That’s because it doesn’t occur overnight
Same here, evolution occurs in timescales so large none of us will ever see it in our lifetimes. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t occur. Dinosaurs became extinct precisely because of environmental changes so large and sudden that natural selection could not keep up their adaptations. That’s because it doesn’t occur overnight
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Curious11
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It’s much more than “Rossum’s theory”, it’s scientific fact that birds descend from dinosaurs.
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PickyPicky
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“Rossum’s Theory” has a nice ring to it, though. 
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Hugh_Farey
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Oooh, do be careful. I’m among the most secure evolutionists on the thread, but in this company hesitate to use the word ‘fact’. The creationists will want video evidence of a tyrannosaurus giving birth to a chicken.
There is however, ample evidence from genetics and fossils that the best explanation for the observed evidence yet found regarding birds and dinosaurs is, indeed, that birds descends from dinosaurs.
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Hugh_Farey
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Quite possibly. It was well after mankind had spread all over the world, so it is untrue that there was global extinction of all but Noah’s family and animals. It had no effect on evolution. The Biblical flood is a myth, but please note, all ye creationists, that it is not a silly myth, nor written by superstitious primitives, so we’ll have none of that misrepresentation if you’ll be so kind.
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Aloysium
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What I see definitely is how random mutation and natural selection actually work, every time I visit family and friends in the cemetery. The developmental change you describe is preprogrammed.
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Curious11
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I don’t know what you’re trying to say, my friend
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Techno2000
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The stopwatch started ticking 4 and a half billion years ago how much longer do we have to wait?
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Techno2000
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So how did they adapt to become birds ?
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Techno2000
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How many different kinds of plants and animal species/varieties are there in the world ?
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rossum
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They had already adapted. Birds appeared during the Jurassic. The other dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous. They overlapped for millions of years.
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benjamin1973
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Nobody argued against that. I’m arguing against the idea that there are hard-coded limits set by God in the DNA of dogs. That seems highly unlikely to me.
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benjamin1973
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It’s strange that you would quote a staunch anti-Creationist as an authority. You sure you want to do that?
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How is it that a ancestral transitional form (dinosaur) is living with its own future bird form ?Isn’t the ancestral transitional form suppose to die out because it couldn’t adapt ?Techno2000:
They had already adapted. Birds appeared during the Jurassic. The other dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous. They overlapped for millions of years.
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PetraG
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What is the connection between roses that have been artificially given the genetic material of delphiniums and comparing their “intelligence” to a literal vegetable?
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