Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
OK, interesting post, but too much to tackle at once.

Again, and again, we seem to keep butting heads on issues of what is theory, proof, evidence, etc. I have never said Evolution can be proven, any more than you can call it disproven. Which you can't. And you haven't proven or even come up with a better alternative, as far as I can see.

Two points:
I don't agree with the way you have rejected scientific dating out of hand, it's a little more than pure fantasy I would say.
Your apparent claims that DNA cannot change (evolve, mutate) is certainly debatable.


Shall we try and resolve these issues, or move on to whether or not birds evolved from dinosaurs?

Birds from Dinosaurs.
What exactly will satisfy you? Do you want absolute proof? Or just evidence. What about the following.

Dinosaurs are extinct,
Birds are not extinct,
Dinosaurs layed eggs.
Many dinosaurs had three toes and walked upright,
As far as I know, there are no lizards that have three toes and walk upright, but there certainly are birds with three toes that walk upright.
There is evidence of dinosaurs with feathers. (Intermediary evidence)

I would say that constitutes evidence, but maybe not proof.
Sorry but how is that anything more than conjecture, where is the science in that?

How about this.

Flies lay eggs
Flies actually fly
There are types of fly that are extinct
Are they related to birds?

There are so many different kinds of creature on this planet that it is inevitable that many share similarities.

A platypus also lays eggs like a bird.
It also has a beak

Is that a link between bird and mammal?


Plus a common build pattern doesn't indicate shared ancestery any more than it indicates a common designer.

If you believe that God created all life on earth then if things share a similar design its because the same God designed them.

In fact if you believe that one God created all life on earth you would expect them to share similar structures would you not?

We cannot prove or disprove either theory by looking at the similarities of organisms as both creation and evolution would predict such similarites.