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[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

May I present to you...fossilized bacteria:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/bacteriafr.html

Just one of the many examples of fossils we have that are single celled organisms...not multi-celled. Try again.

I think you misunderstood the quote.

[Glenzig]

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth’s surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms. ◾Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97.

◾The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth’s history. ◾Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97. Letting the Fossil Record Speak, Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?

Seems very contradictory.

[leewong]

Originally Posted by Glenzig [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth’s surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms. ◾Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97.

◾The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth’s history. ◾Robert Jastrow, Red Giants and White Dwarfs, 1979, p. 97. Letting the Fossil Record Speak, Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?

Seems very contradictory.

Robert is proposing a hypothesis based on observation of the fossil record. It is a guess but one built from massive amounts of circumstantial evidence.

"Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms."

Which would infer the further you traveled back in time the simpler life would be. How long would it take for life to go from strands of replicating proteins to cells by his guess would take a few billions years. We already know for a fact that the first cells appeared around 3.5 billion years ago. So proto cells would have to form much earlier.

We dont have really any fossil remains from 4billion years ago so it remains a hypothesis.

[Neyphlite]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19213...-our-eyes.html

http://listverse.com/2011/11/19/8-ex...ion-in-action/

[Neyphlite]

By the way, as I said before im not against religion. I do believe in a higher power but unfortunately the only thing I can provide as "proof" of that is quoting a book written thousands of years ago and reads like fiction. There is way more concrete proof of evolution existing then that of a singular god who created everything around us.

[Whirled]

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Some people even worship some spaghetti dude too.

[Thulack]

Government and Religion. Both people trying to tell you how to run your life and get money from you at the same time. They came up with religion so people would be fearful of doing bad things in this life and be punished for it in the "afterlife".

[RobotElvis]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Government and Religion. Both people trying to tell you how to run your life and get money from you at the same time. They came up with religion so people would be fearful of doing bad things in this life and be punished for it in the "afterlife".

This thread isn't for rational thoughts.
SCRAM! You little cockroach.

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Government and Religion. Both people trying to tell you how to run your life and get money from you at the same time. They came up with religion so people would be fearful of doing bad things in this life and be punished for it in the "afterlife".

Yeah, because atheist anarchists would clearly have a great society

You've just described Penn and Teller running the world

[Patriam1066]

also nice job guys you've added 50 pages in one day, impressive