Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.
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Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.
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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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.
Flesh out after coffee.
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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.
But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games. 

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Re: Transitional Fossils, the sporting analogy.
Or the dead bodies of all the players of the losing team.Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games.
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[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games.
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Exactly my point. It's always "La la la, I can't hear you...."Animavore wrote:[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games.
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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.Animavore wrote:[pedantic]Technically it doesn't matter how much evidence you show them they'll simply refuse to look at it or accept it[/pedantic]Faithfree wrote:But even if we do produce full documentation of all 64 games, creationists will still demand the intermediates between those games.
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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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If I had any skills at all I'd do it on a youtube.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.
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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.
And the fact that the ball fits in the hoop just right, means it must have been designed.
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Not an optimal environment.Deep Sea Isopod wrote:If any of this were true, there would be Basketball players in the UK Strata.
Are you trying to imply that selection is the exact opposite of random?Deep Sea Isopod wrote:And the fact that the ball fits in the hoop just right, means it must have been designed.
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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.
A player has now been found on mount everest, proving the global flood washed him up there.
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