Quote Originally Posted by Rhabbi View Post
Actually I have read that thread, and thought cariad has been doing well at holding her own.

This article might be worth reading if evolution was anything more than a specious philosophical idea, and the author had actually read the work he was trying to use as an authority. Since neither of these is true I can simply file his theories with those of the Flat Earth Society.
The sentence I highlighted in the quoted paragraph made me chuckle. I can't understand how someone could dismiss evolution in it's entirety. Yet there it is. If you say that there is no such thing as evolution, then you are saying that there is no such thing as survival of the fittest. There is no such thing as adaptation. Yet we as humans have adapted our lives to make our environment more comfortable for us. We created climate control systems to help us with heat, or cold. We created fabrics to keep us warm or cool.

If you deny evolution in it's entirety. You are also saying that there were between 5 and 8 million species of beetles on Noah's Ark. That would mean there could have been 16 million beetles on the Ark. The size of the Ark is a well documented item in the bible. If you work out how big the Ark was, it turns out to be roughly the size of 2 - 3 foot ball fields. 16 million beetles would take a pretty good percentage of that space I think. Would become very crowded very quickly, and holy crap don't squash one on accident, you would have just caused that species to become extinct, thus failing in the purpose of the Ark to start with.

Why would I use the beetle as an example... Because thats how many species of beetle there are on the planet right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle
Quote Originally Posted by wikipedia
Forty percent of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species), and new species are regularly discovered. Estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at between 5 and 8 million.
I believe that there is a yen yang to it all. Such as there is to everything else in the universe. Evolution coupled with creationism. Not only one or the other, but both. If you were to say only one or the other, then you leave yourself with questions that will not pass logic tests on either side.