Hey Maragon; are your ears burning?

Vera did spake thusly:

"There are some in science who impose their beliefs on the data, which is a wicked evil practice. I don't know if you had a chance to chat with Maragon while she was here but she is a dyed in the wool naturalist that imposes her belief on the evidence even when there are many missing pieces to the puzzle and the evidence does not support her conclusions. Her greatest credential is her degree in evolutionary biology which she claims makes her superior to anyone speaking here on the subject.

Posted on October 12, 2008 5:57 AM"

In thisly thread.

Maragon, I hope you weren't throwing around facts and evidence like they somehow carried weight in the real world, were you? You know that fundies only deal in ad hoc excuse-making and internally self-contradicting flights of fancy when it comes to science, what's wrong with you? Go watch some Hovind videos until you're feeling better...

The above comment was from a discussion between verafiedung and jrk83 about which worldview lined up best with scripture; OEC or YEC...

It's great watching YEC and OEC going at it - kind of like watching two kids arguing about which is the greatest Star Wars film ever; The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones. You just have to let them wear themselves out and surruptitiously put Empire Strikes Back into the DVD player while they're not looking...

I'm also open to A New Hope, but anything else is pure blasphemy.


Now, what shall I have for breakfast...

Cambrain Explosion

This from the folks at Reason to Believe, via our friend Vera:

From RTB,
The most dramatic example of this is the Cambrian explosion about 500 million years ago. Prior to the Cambrian period, there was no evidence of any organisms with hard parts, but during a mere ~50 million years, “all of the main phyla and divisions of organisms that exist today—except for the land plants”—appeared. “Once all the basic niches were taken, however, this frenzy of new forms not only came to a stop, it was pruned back,” as some Cambrian phyla became extinct.

They always use explosion as if it actually means instantaneous. Like some intelligent designer snapped his fingers and there it all was. I don't thing anywhere from 5 to 40 or more million years counts as an explosion.

But I'll tell what, if the first chapter of Genesis used the phrase "Cambrain Explosion", I'd be rethinking things.