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Well, I'm not suggesting that you pay for every article you see cited. What I am suggesting is that there are other methods of accessing this material and that simply because some articles require payment for access does not mean that they are not generally available and that accusing a post of...

Not all references and citations have been published on the Internet. This does not mean that they are not available to the public. Public libraries exist to help make these things available free of charge. Accusing a 'presentation' of being untrue simply because you cannot access the entirety...

Evolution is not a theory of faith, it is a scientific theory. Even YECists who argue for the actuality of an Ark legend carrying 'kinds' from which the post-flood diversity of non-marine life proliferated de facto accept a rate of evolutionary change that evolutionary biologists find...

Archaeologists disagree as to the provenance of these artefacts and, for the few that may be genuine, whether they depict what is claimed for the: http://www.badarchaeology.com/?page_id=334 Note that the location of the cave where these artefacts were allegedly found has never been disclosed...

My apologies for this mistake. However, both examination by archaeologist Charles Di Peso and thermoluminescence dating by Gary Carriveau and Mark Han indicate that these figurines are modern fakes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acámbaro_figures). Do you have a citation to support these...

The Ica Stones have been so widely discredited as anything other than fakes, that continuing to cite them as evidence of human-dinosaur co-existence seems almost self-defeating. How is this evidence that humans and dinosaurs co-existed rather than, say, that human remains were buried at a site...

Perhaps you can present what you consider to be the best piece of such evidence so that we can discuss it?

An assumption that is grounded in a great deal of evidence from a number of independent lines of research. Natural selection suggests that such negative impacts would be weeded from a population unless they conferred an evolutionary advantage that was at least as good as the disadvantage was...

One study places the average mammalian genome mutation rate at 2.2 × 10^−9 per base pair per year. This figure provides a basis for estimating species and population divergence times using molecular clocks. Source: http://www.pnas.org/content/99/2/803.full

I understood you to be suggesting an undiscovered truth residing in the supernatural. I was offering a differing perspective. I thought that was part of what discussion forums are about.

Presupposes that there is a 'truth' that resides only in the supernatural. Interestingly, those who have gone searching critically for some 'truth' in proponents of the supernatural - Harry Houdini and James Randi spring to mind as two examples - have uncovered only charlatans, rascals and the...

Check out mutations, transposons and polyploidy, all of which can increase the amount or type of information in the genome.

I did, indeed, answer the question. If you have any problem with the content of the answer, perhaps you could respond to those specific points. For example, do you think there is an absolute dividing line between not-chicken and chicken?

Your mistake seems to lie in the misunderstanding that there exists some kind of absolute dividing line in the evolutionary development of chickens, on one side of which there are only not-chickens, while on the other side there are only chickens. This is not the case. Also, reptiles evolved...

I would begin by understanding that one cannot grow wings simply by wishing it so. The next thing I would note is that, given my tetrapod body-form, I could only 'grow' wings by adapting existing lines. I would then realise that the evolutionary history that has led to my skeletal construction...

For example, using a method known as DNA-DNA hybridization scientists can compare different species to determine the evolutionary relationships amongst them. This method measures how similar the DNA of different species is, such that humans are 'closer' to chimpanzees than to gorillas, 'closer'...

I think you mean Uranus. :)

How is what possible? DNA sequencing is a methodology that determines relatedness, so that courts will accept it as evidence of paternity for example. DNA originates from chemical precursors, just like - analogously - water molecules originate from two precursor elements, hydrogen and oxygen.

But it does not say how this was accomplished, any more than saying Michaelangelo made 'David' tells you anything about how he went about it. Indeed, the Bible also says - 'Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after...

Try me. Thanks.