Help Creationists find a Pterodactyl!

[Aesop Rocks]

Le sigh~ I know this, it was a joke.

 

[SuperFerret]

I saw a TV show that said that velociraptors were probably covered with feathers. Totally killed my JP image of them.

That is a possibility, but seeing as how we can never be sure, believe what you want. Like I always say, don't let the reality of Tyrannosaurus rex destroy the legend of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Not only Raptors but all dinos.

I think I may have watched the same thing.

Not all dinos, specifically the theropods, which were the most bird-like. There have been skin-impressions found from sauropods (I think) that show evidence of them having pebbled skin.

 

[BestGirl]

Not only Raptors but all dinos.

I think I may have watched the same thing.

*Tries to imagine a feathered T Rex*

I really don't like the idea of dinosaurs with feathers.

Le sigh~ I know this, it was a joke.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I wonder what would be found if someone with the money/man power looked.

 

[SuperFerret]

All it takes is effort and a curious mind. That's how I found out that trout are the best fish to slap people with.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I thought you did it all in good humor!

 

[moraldeficiency]

I'm totally going to puerto rico to get a raptor. I'll name him fluffy and take him for walks.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

"Man killed in bizarre attempt to capture alive Raptor".

 

[moraldeficiency]

I would sic fluffy on you for that, but you've got a Kuma avatar and Kuma is the mosquito's ****.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

WHAT IS WITH EVERYONE AND THEIR LINGO WHEN IT COMES TO MY AVATAR?!

 

[moraldeficiency]

That's actually a line from a HitchHiker's guide to the Galaxy book (I forget which one, I think the last) that I only pull out for something truly awesome. I can't comment on others though.

(I've tried to do a Kuma costume for halloween for the last two years, that headmask is bloody impossible)

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Oh. Thanks!

My friend went as Afro last Halloween.

He's white. It was awkward.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Gotta love those creationists, they are so funny. This guy said to me not a week ago "I've never seen a monkey turn into a human." To say something as absurd as that one truly has to live with his head in the sand and not wish to actually learn what evolution entails.

Or maybe the non-answer of "god did it" works for them. I just find it's not a satisfactory answer for anything at all.

 

[moraldeficiency]

We were going with brian (white guy) for afro (no black face though obviously), rich (black guy) for justice (no white face though obviously) and me (irish ****er) as Kuma but that damn mask is impossible. I slaughtered like 12 teddy bears trying. You should have seen it, heads ripped apart, stuffing everywhere, sewn up monstrocities all over the room. Those people in Toys R Us were really quite pissed.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

never been a more appropriate smiley

 

[random_havoc]

Gotta love those creationists, they are so funny. This guy said to me not a week ago "I've never seen a monkey turn into a human." To say something as absurd as that one truly has to live with his head in the sand and not wish to actually learn what evolution entails.

Or maybe the non-answer of "god did it" works for them. I just find it's not a satisfactory answer for anything at all.

A couple thoughts on that...

I don't think that the ignorant comments of some creationist laymen are a good measure by which to judge creationists altogether. Sure, the relatively ignorant laymen make up the majority of creationists, but that's true of virtually any large movement (just as I wouldn't take the opinions of some random people on the street and judge Barack Obama by them, even if those people on the street identified themselves as democrats).

Also, your assertion that creationists only thoughts are that "God did it" shows that you have as little understanding of our arguments as the above mentioned creationists have of pro-evolution arguments.

 

[ChickenScratch]

If you say so. I view creationists the same way I view flat-earthers. No matter how intelligent some of them may be they stand upon flawed assertions (in this case, a belief in god). Well thought out flawed knowledge is still just as wrong.

 

[Hound55]

In comparison, pterosaurs are a blessing from the Lord: Many reported living species are of reasonable size, making housing and care affordable; although they've become carnivorous, they should be as trainable as the birds of prey commonly allowed to interact with zoo visitors during bird shows;

Although thy've become carniverous... um, not through evolutionary methods or anything as ridiculous as that either. God told them to become carnivorous and they humbly obliged.

Just like when God told monkeys to become human.

God gets bored easily.

 

[SuperFerret]

If you say so. I view creationists the same way I view flat-earthers. No matter how intelligent some of them may be they stand upon flawed assertions (in this case, a belief in god). Well thought out flawed knowledge is still just as wrong.

I fail to see how that's flawed.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Creationism as a whole is. It presupposes a creator which there is no objective proof for.

I've got no issues with people's belief if they need something to believe in, that's great.

 

[moraldeficiency]

This is defiantly the plot for: "Jurassic Park 4: God's Revenge".

 

[Bill]

A couple thoughts on that...

I don't think that the ignorant comments of some creationist laymen are a good measure by which to judge creationists altogether. Sure, the relatively ignorant laymen make up the majority of creationists, but that's true of virtually any large movement (just as I wouldn't take the opinions of some random people on the street and judge Barack Obama by them, even if those people on the street identified themselves as democrats).

Also, your assertion that creationists only thoughts are that "God did it" shows that you have as little understanding of our arguments as the above mentioned creationists have of pro-evolution arguments.

If your site CMI is any indication of high-minded creationist arguments and ideas, then it looks like fancy double-speak and big words in the right places can make anything sound good to the right people. When they can push a book that supposedly refutes a theory from biology written by a nuclear chemist and physicist with a straight face, with a foreword by one of the more prestigious idiots in the fold, I can only guess at the entertainment to be found reading the rest of the site. It only exacerbates the already profound problem of creationists having a severe lack of "scientists" who write within their fields(after all, they claim that hundreds of biology scientists are dismissing the theory of Evolution every day. it's a shame none of them write their books for them.), not even addressing the even more severe problem of a lack of coherency and substantiation in their arguments.

Creationist arguments are only sound to those who want to believe them. The ones with the PhD's, the so-called experts, are no better at making arguments than the "laymen", they just use bigger words. By all means, take Dr. Sarfati's handbook into a forum inhabited by real Biology scientists working in the field and unleash his expert arguments upon them. Please.

 

[SuperFerret]

Creationism as a whole is. It presupposes a creator which there is no objective proof for.

I've got no issues with people's belief if they need something to believe in, that's great.

There's no proof of a creator not existing. Unless, of course, you know how the universe began and all.

 

[ChickenScratch]

No I don't know how it began. But the lack of an answer does not equal "god did it." Then one could argue, which god? One of the recent ones like the christian god, or one of the elder gods like the Egyptian, Babylonian gods? How do you know your god is the right one to be throwing your hat in the ring for, he's quite new, couldn't possibly have been there at the start, he's just a baby compared to many others.

As I said, I have no problem with people believing in their religion. But that explanation does not work for me. As the son of a scientist I've grown up around enough educated people to think more of logic and fact than I do of myth.

 

[SuperFerret]

Logic dictates that if there is no proof one way or another then it could be possible, regardless of what "it" is.