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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:19 PM
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I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period
Don't get me wrong: I'm not one of those religious nut cases who denies that evolution is real. Of course evolution is real, just not during the "Triassic period."

This so-called Triassic period saw the formation of scleractinian corals and a slight changeover from warm-blooded therapsids to cold-blooded archosauromorphs. Clearly, such breathtakingly subtle modifications could only have been achieved by an active intelligence.

The secular Triassicists would have you believe that these changes were just the result of millions of years of nature favoring certain genes over others in order to adapt, the same way evolution worked prior to the Triassic. Obviously, that doesn't make any sense. Think about it: I'm supposed to believe that the same process that we know slowly changed us from simple bacteria into highly advanced reptiles over the course of the Paleozoic era is also responsible for turning us into highly advanced reptiles with different body lengths? Do these people ever pause to think how ridiculous they sound as they advance these theories?

For a half-dozen million years, life advanced from prokaryotes to primitive fish to mammal-like reptiles via natural selection, and we're supposed to believe that that just continued happening? I don't think so. Isn't it much more likely that a formless, invisible deity intervened, temporarily stopped the course of evolution, and shaped each and every trilobite over a period of six days? Of course it is, at least to any objective observer.

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_believe_in_evolution_except?utm_source=digg_1
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:24 PM
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1. Oh don't be so anti-deluvian!
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:35 PM
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2. You sound like you are one those prokaryotes activist
That doesn't have a distinct nucleus for your
diluvial delusions that doesn't hold water to my anti-Triassic concepts.
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:37 PM
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3. "I believe in Evolution, Except When I Look At George W. Bush"
He is strong evidence for the argument that not everyone is evolved.
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scarface2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:42 PM
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4. tell that to those jurassicist punks!
don't get me started!
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:44 PM
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5. Damn and I was going to say the Carboniferous
I mean that much Oxygen in the atmosphere... wink, wink, nod, nod
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-30-07 12:44 PM
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6. Universal acid.
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