Again, I shall repeat that I am not making any pro-creationism comments here. My comments are anti-evolution. I'm not saying that God created the Earth, nor am I even saying the Earth is young. I'm saying that the basic concepts of gradualism and punctuated equilibrium are without sufficient evidence to be believed by anyone who actually bothers to look at the so-called "mountains of evidence" to see how many giant, gaping holes there are in it. I'm saying that Neo-Darwinism has mountains of *assumption* that can be logically followed by drawing lines from point to point, but that there isn't sufficient evidence to prove that the lines should have ever been drawn that way in the first place. I couldn't give less of a shit what any of you believe, but I find it absolutely laughable that you can go around bashing everyone in the universe who doesn't believe the way you do when most of what you believe is merely a logical chain of landmarks with no linking paths. People are still debating the completeness of the fossil record. There are evolutionists now making claims that assuming incompleteness and imagining relationships that can't be proven should make way for using stratigraphic data to test phylogenetic relationships between species. What heresy! Or we can believe that multiple beneficial mutations were consistently present in large populations yet mystically managed genetic isolation from the majorities. Or we can ignore that population drops are accompanied by the expression of detrimental genes and valleys in genetic variability. How can you base every argument on an incomplete fossil record with 250,000 year gaps when the incompleteness of the fossil record is still being debated by non-religious scientists and molecular biology keeps finding new evidence that contradicts popular implementation?
Anyway, I'm done with this. I should have just stayed done because I don't really feel like this is doing anything for me. Just please stop insulting everyone who believes differently than you do. It's annoying and unnecessary. Want to believe what you do? Nobody's stopping you. But that doesn't mean you have to insult others who feel your "evidence" is still far from concrete and based more on your desire to eliminate opposing ideologies than to actually, you know, promote science. And, for at least the third time, I'm not defending creationism, so please stop claiming that I am. I have not once stated in this thread what I actually believe. I have stated what I don't believe. My own father was an evolutionist, an amateur paleontologist, and the published biographer of a family of paleontologists, so don't think I say anything I say out of some muddled attempt to grasp onto a concept for comfort. The first ten years of my life he devoted to working on that book. We went to digs. I touched. I learned. I loved and respected my father more than any other person I have ever known and I'd have given anything to agree with him in adulthood. I still would. And if someday something is actually proven to a degree I find anything less than ridiculous, maybe I will. Belief in God, after all, does not equal a disbelief in evolutionary theory or some kind of need to refute science. My father proved *that* to me beyond any doubt.
