[when confronted with the "We Have The Fossils, We Win" JPG]
You have the ancient pig's teeth, the bones of an old man with a rickets that made his skeleton look ape-like, chemically treated skulls that have teeth plugged with bubble gum, and millions of MISSING transitional skeletons that should be all over the earth.
Somehow I doubt the validity of Darwin's theories.
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The ancient pig's teeth were the infamous "Nebraska Man", which was never accepted by most scientists as even a primate, much less a human ancestor. The name and fanciful drawing came from a British popular magazine, not a scientific publication. Rickets have very specific symptoms. Nobody but a handful of creationists who know nothing about rickets have seriously suggested that early hominids were modern humans with rickets.
"...millions of MISSING transitional skeletons that should be all over the earth. "
Actually, science explains why there aren't fossils of every thing that ever lived. Fossilization is a (fairly) rare process, with specific conditions...In fact, if there was a global flood, we'd have millions, if not BILLIONS of fossils, all in the same strata, from the same 40 day period, of almost every living thing that died in the flood, because a flood like that would be ideal for fossilization. But guess what?
Doubt and scepticism is always good.
However, unreasonable denial in the face of evidence is totally bad.
Sure, hold the teeth in place with bubblegum, make the skull from a shaved coconut, add a couple of boiled eggs for eyes and stick it in the middle of a fruit salad in a museum exhibit.
It's not like a fundy is ever going to turn up to see it.
they're missing because the process of fossilisation requires dozens of exact conditions to occur, and is statistically rare. otherwise the whole planet would be covered in them!! imagine that, you wouldn't be able to get to work because of all the fossils sticking out of the ground
Prove that 1 is connected to 2.
Bear in mind that we will require you to provide every single intermediary number. After all, if 1.00000000000000000000000001 really did become 1.00000000000000000000000002, there should be something in between, right?
Wow, three fakes out of hundreds, and suddenly Darwin's theory tumbles (when, in fact, evolution is supported strongly even without a fossil record).
Fossils are rare, and cannot fully and seamlessly express the transitions of every species on the planet. It just cannot be practically done, and most sane human beings realize that.
Fail.
Oh right, that missing link objection hasn't been answered a million times before. Now, to continue his devastating rebuttal, winged pegasus will produce the unbroken series of skeletons of his ancestors back to Adam and Eve.
"Now, to continue his devastating rebuttal, winged pegasus will produce the unbroken series of skeletons of his ancestors back to Adam and Eve."
Now, John_in_Oz, you know that evidence is only something OTHER people are supposed to have, according to the Fundie Handbook.
"You have the ancient pig's teeth"
"the bones of an old man with a rickets..."
"chemically treated skulls..."
By trying to degrade science, WingedPegasus has actually highlighted one of its greatest virtues. Science corrects its mistakes, religion simply ignores them
“You have the ancient pig's teeth”
“the bones of an old man with a rickets that made his skeleton look ape-like,”
“chemically treated skulls that have teeth plugged with bubble gum”
“and millions of MISSING transitional skeletons that should be all over the earth.”
“Somehow I doubt the validity of Darwin's theories.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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