An Asteroid wiped out dinosaurs...

MIND FREAK!

FE is either the greatest troll to ever exist on the internet or the most incredibly dense creature in the history of the world. I'm not sure which one it is but neither is anything to be proud of really. Naturally, I have my own opinion on the subject but since I basically agree with everybody against FE and he completely ignores anything that doesn't support his view (ie. anything not the bible or answersingenesis.org) I don't think I'm going to bother. FE, I truly feel sorry for your kids if they can't see past your nonsense and form their own opinion of the world.

I don't know what the OP was aiming for. Science is science and the bible is a religious text, one is in no way related to the other. Cognitive Dissonance is part of the human condition, only those who convince themselves that belief in one thing _must preclude all others_ have a problem with this.

To me the OP would be like a guy showing up at a paintball field with a baseball, a mitt, and a bat, expecting to 'play ball' when the ref blew the whistle.

A hammer is designed with a purpose in mind, ie. for pounding in nails. If you need to pound in a nail, you get a hammer. You don't take your arm, make a fist to mimic the shape of a hammer, and use that. You'll only get hurt. Science is just like that hammer, it's a tool, a set of theories for understanding or modeling the world we live in. A more religious type whose name escapes me right now once said that he could not believe that god gave man reason only so that man could forgo its use. Anyways it's only when people don't understand the true nature of science that they get all bent out of shape over it's implications.

FreeEnterprise wrote: I also love the tolerance toward my viewpoints... Great to see how everyone is accepting if you follow, but if you believe something else, you get namecalled...

Um, excuse me? You are not "believing something else" you are directly attacking our "beliefs" with retoric, hoping to convince us we are wrong.

That isn't "believing something else".

And for the love of yout God, please READ the articles you link.

She and her colleagues obtained DNA from extinct moas and ducks from New Zealand, extinct elephant birds from Madagascar, and an emu and owl from Australia. The oldest eggshell belonged to an emu that lived 19,000 years ago.

19 000 years is a LONG way from 75 million. It also happens to be 3 times the time you say you believe the planet has been around. That article even says it'll be hard getting DNA from dino eggs.

BUT, and here is the point you seem to be missing, they keep trying. Why? Because new technologies develop. New techniques are tried. Progress is made.

They'll keep trying. Why? Because they want to push boundries. They don't want to sit back and say "that's everything, stop asking questions".

If God didn't want us asking these questions, he shouldn't have given us curios brains, and he shouldn't have given us free will.


in your theory of how things happened, did Adam and Eve know about atoms, quarks, microbes and how mountains are formed before they ate the fruit?

Here is a link for you. "EVIL" science helping uncover the bible.

Bible City Found




Edited by Kayback - 10 March 2010 at 1:44pm

Kayback wrote: In connection to the original post, what DID kill the dinosaurs? Did God also find them full of sin and drown them in the Flood? Were they imperfect creations so he killed them off? KBK

I'd like to know how they could have existed if they were here before the earth apparently was.

FE!!! the Tippmann forum's new attention whore!

On the point of tolerance, I am ridiculously intolerant to people who are so blindly religious that they refuse to see other people's viewpoints.

Mack wrote: mod98commando wrote: FE is either the greatest troll to ever exist on the internet or the most incredibly dense creature in the history of the world. There's no reason he can't be both.

I apologize, you are quite correct good sir.

I realize it's not nice to insult people and whatnot (and FE loves to bait us so he can play the victim) but it needed to be said. You can't express your view while making broad (and baseless) generalizations about everybody on the forum or other groups of people and then subsequently denying the sound logic and proof presented in their defense and not be automatically labeled the forum ass. Everybody is entitled to an opinion but when you try to pass that opinion off as fact and can't defend it with anything other than nonsensical rhetoric, other people's opinions, or flawed logic then it's time to rethink your position. There's nothing wrong with changing your opinion on something. Hell, I changed my opinion on the whole runaway Prius situation based on the posts in that thread here. I originally thought the drivers were just being stupid and not turning the ignition off or putting the car in neutral when the brakes failed but then I learned that they did try that and it didn't work because Toyota is apparently stupid. I didn't try to defend my original stance to the death, I just changed my stance to reflect the new information.

Starting a thread in a manner that is basically a challenge or invitation to debate and then replying with nothing but nonsense when people accept the challenge is pointless. I continue to participate in these threads not because I enjoy the nonsense but because I'm waiting for the day when there's more to the argument than just heavily opinionated rhetoric coming from somebody who is so closed-minded that they're responses can basically be reduced to "LALALA I'm not listening because I'm right and this blogger agrees so I win".

Eville wrote: I was just thinking that since the Bible is the greatest, most accurate history book ever, why is there no mention of the dinosaur extinction?  You would think that a bunch of giant predatory death machines disappearing would be a pretty big occasion for the people of that time.

You and your silly logic.