Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

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Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:07 pm

Probably too early to start this, but I didn't want to forget it.

Preliminary thoughts.

You'll need to modify this for your local flavor of sport.

Every Spring people with nothing better to do that watch ten people in boxer shorts and t-shirts run around in public, dribbling on the floor and fouling themselves watch the basketball playoffs. Sixty-four teams start the competition and in the end there is only one left. Creationist thinking would demand that we have records of all sixty-four games, and produce them on demand.

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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

Post by Faithfree » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:44 pm

But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. :roll:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:47 pm

Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. :roll:
Or the dead bodies of all the players of the losing team.
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Post by Animavore » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:53 pm

Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. :roll:
[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]
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Post by Faithfree » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:55 pm

Animavore wrote:
Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. :roll:
[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]
Exactly my point. It's always "La la la, I can't hear you...."
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:58 pm

Animavore wrote:
Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. :roll:
[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]
A given. But Joe Six-pack needs an example that works at his level. We are constantly talking over the heads of the bulk of people out there. Our brilliant argument baffle them, and that makes them mad at themselves, which they deflect to us.
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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

Post by charlou » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:17 pm

I think you need to explain this to the creationists using a china tea set and a plate of buttered crumpets on a tray. Add a bowl of tomato soup to represent blood spilling.
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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:24 pm

Charlou wrote:I think you need to explain this to the creationists using a china tea set and a plate of buttered crumpets on a tray. Add a bowl of tomato soup to represent blood spilling.
If I had any skills at all I'd do it on a youtube.
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Post by Deep Sea Isopod » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:39 pm

If any of this were true, there would be Basketball players in the UK Strata.

And the fact that the ball fits in the hoop just right, means it must have been designed.
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Post by eversbane » Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:43 pm

Deep Sea Isopod wrote:If any of this were true, there would be Basketball players in the UK Strata.
Not an optimal environment.
Deep Sea Isopod wrote:And the fact that the ball fits in the hoop just right, means it must have been designed.
Are you trying to imply that selection is the exact opposite of random?
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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.

Post by Deep Sea Isopod » Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:09 pm

Basketball players are usually found on a flat indoor surface.
A player has now been found on mount everest, proving the global flood washed him up there.
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