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Fish with Limbs
kpogoda writes "American scientists have unearthed the world's oldest arm bone, a 365-million-year-old fossil that provides key evidence that fish used limbs in water well before animals used them to climb up on land."
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Damn, that's one persuasive argument. Well, I guess I was wrong, because I don't want you to think I'm stupid or willfully ignorant. Seriously - I want evidence of evolution. How often people say someone is an idiot to deny it. Then, I imagine, they conjure in their minds images of children different from parents and suppose that it is proof of 'evolution'. And they then wonder to themselves, given that evolution is obvious all around, how could poor creationists be so foolish as to deny it? If that's you, then you have seriously misunderstood the issues.
You mention an article (without reference) that demonstrates hypothetical steps of eye biological evolution, and points to the hypothetical evolutionary history of nature as proof? So, I'm still waiting for the actual proof of any of this. Of course, without actually seeing the article, how can a creationist respond?
The most amusing thing about invented evolutionary steps is that they ignore the smaller steps between those steps. In Darwin's time he had no idea how complex life really was at the micro level. It was easy to glibly say that a creature might form basic wings over time which then improve in functionality. It's another thing entirely to describe how that is possible at the most basic level. After all, when he looked at the finches he found proof of his theory. Yet what he was actually seeing was the selection of pre-existing traits - which was not at all what he needed as proof of his theory. I saw a horrid piece of evolutionary poetry once, it was a terrible mix of fantasy and imagination. That's what most evolutionary explanations are.
I wish that skeptics would apply their brand of thought to their own beliefs - so quick to criticize followers of religions as chasing after myths, yet so stubbornly refusing to look at their own beliefs.
Nice job. You refuted your own answer with your second paragraph. Troll I could understand, because that comes from the biases inherent in the slashdot crowd. But off-topic was a completely hypocritical moderation. And, it turns out, you agree with me but didn't want to make it look like you did.