That's questionable. There is plenty of evidence of advancement of "man". There are gaps, and there are dead ends. Evolution is not fully defined. You know what is out there, and you know where to find it. If I show it to you, you will still disbelieve it. Again, so much boils down to timelines. You don't accept them, I doubt my ability to convince you otherwise. Timelines are critical. End of. move on.What evidence of advancement? When a species first appears in the fossil record it appears fully formed and complete with no signs of more primitive ancestory.
When we look back at the age of the dinosaurs, we now know that far from primitive they were intelligent, fast, mobile and well adapted to their enviroments, to suggest they were in any way more 'primitive' or less advanced than life today is completely false.Are you shitting me? Do we know it? Or did someone come up with a new theory to that effect? I've heard that theory. Bilbo you have already derided science for continually changing its theories, you can't suddenly pick one of them and decide to call it truth.
It is a theory. An explanation. And I suppose it was so long ago that the fossils have dried up? Oh yeah, the earth is less than 100,000 years old. ok.The story of life beginning in the sea with some single celled organism which somehow replicated itself and over time became more complex is just that a story, there is no fossil record of this time period to support it.
I'm getting a little puzzled. Are you saying this period exists? If so, when? Or are you just reconstructing the scientific theory to facilitate debunking it?The true starting point for the fossil record is the Pre Cambrian explosion,
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again their are holes in the theory, seing as how no-one was there to observe it.when scientists are admiteddly baffled by the fact that complex vertabrate species of abundant variety just appear out of nowhere in the geological record. Just an abundence of complex, fully adapted life instantly appearing the fossil record with no trace of ancestary.
They 'hypothize' that their nice molecule to multi molecule to simple animals and fish all occurred of course, but that it sadly just wasn't recorded in the fossil record.
ok, now things get interesting. How does the ark fit into all of this?As to what happened to the dinosaurs, I believe that after the flood the envioroment changed drastically.
Some very small dinosaurs were wiped out.The Bible makes it clear that prior to the flood there was no rainfall, and that the earth was watered by a mist that went up from the ground. The atmosphere was much more water rich and saturated with oxygen. The climate was sub tropical with an abundence of vegetations and the better atmosphere and food supply meant that huge animals could be supported. The Bible even says there were giants on the earth in this time, and indeed science has found gigantism for every major animal group at this time.
In our present world it's biologically impossible for things to get as big as they did back then because the atmosphere doesn't support it.
You mean it didn't rain for forty days and forty nights?So after the flood, and the resulting ice age that it brought about many species of creature simply died out.
Before you dismiss the idea of a worldwide catastrophe like a flood you should know that science also claims a worldwide catastophe that wiped out all of as much as 97% of life. They call it the Permian extinction or 'The Great Dying' and place it around 250,000,000 years ago.
Interestingly recently they have been saying it was caused by massive undersea volcanic eruptions all over the world.
Most people erronously think the Bible says rain caused the flood. It doesn't it says 'The foundations of the great deep were broken up', which pretty much describes what the scientists have found.
Anyways, I really hadn't intended to argue the truth or lack thereof of the Bible, which is a nice little story itself. But I had an idea it was behind all of this.
Scientists have devoted their lives to this, as have biblical scholars. I couldn't hope to do a better job than the scientists of explaining things. The info is all out there. You know how to find it. I could fill up Saddo's hard drive and you wouldn't believe me.
Let's leave it. Conclude if you want, but try to avoid summarizing my perspective, cause you kinda screwed that up that last time we tried to call it a day.
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