Originally Posted by oldtrapper
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by oldtrapper

Sorry ol' bean, but this is just more arguing backward.

Actually, it's the reverse of what you say. You folks are trying to suggest that purely speculative evidence that something cannot happen is proof that something that quite evidently did happen (supported massively by the available evidence), didn't.



Your argument is like this. I see a rock. It was caused by the big bang. The evidence for the big bang is that the rock is here. See?


It’s more like, I see a car, a train, a motorcycle, and a wagon. These are all vehicles of roughly the same form with wheels. Since I know that that there is no one who could have made these items, they must have appeared by natural means. Since they appeared by natural means, and they are so similar, they must have evolved from a common ancestor. And the proof that they did and that such a process occurred, is that they are here.