Are Fossils evidence of evolution ....or are the evidence of fossils

[Guest kingdombrat]

15 minutes ago, The Barbarian said:

Do you have any evidence for your assumption?

 

3.2 Millions years old is the assumption.  We are dating bone fragment.  It's not like Rings in Trees and Ice.  It's clearly nothing more than two options, assumption and guess.

[The Barbarian]

2 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

We are discussing when the Earth was a Single Continent? 

No.   That was hundreds of millions of years before humans.   

3 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

All 4 Rivers connect then.

Not even then.   At least one runs north, and at least two run south from different mountains.    That won't work for you, either.

 

[Riverwalker]

On 4/13/2021 at 11:40 AM, teddyv said:

We can observe volcanoes, eartquakes and faults tend to occur on the margins of the plates. We can observe the features these create. We can then find historical examples of volcanoes and faults not on active margins. We can observe mineral deposits that typically occur in certain geological provinces.

Using what exists to predict what exists is a far cry from using what exists to determine the how and why of evolution

[The Barbarian]

1 minute ago, kingdombrat said:

3.2 Millions years old is the assumption.  

Nope.   Repeatedly verified by evidence.   And we know it works, because we can calibrate the method by dating known events.

2 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

We are dating bone fragment.  

Not hard to manage that, either, in many cases.   Where you have igneous rock over and under the bone fragment, you can assign a range of time confidently by radioisotope dating.

 

[BeyondET]

1 hour ago, kingdombrat said:

Tell me with a [simple] yes/no response (if possible):

When we read some [Specifics] to the Book of Genesis where God tells Job He made the Behemoth [same day/same way] as "Adam."

Is it possible to ARRIVE to the Conclusion, if how God made both Man and Behemoth from DUST + WATER, since the DUST is full of trillions of single cell/microbes/bacteria, that all Species Created this way would/could share [similar genetics and organisms]?

Actually God did not create sea animals or land animals from dust. In both accounts God says let the waters and let the earth bring forth.

pretty much like it is today.

[Riverwalker]

6 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

We are discussing when the Earth was a Single Continent?   All 4 Rivers connect then.

You are making an assumption that the earth was ever one continent. Based on shapes of continents Problem with Pangea is that it doesn't no account for much of the land of Asia  A Lot of Russia simply does not exist in that paradigm

[The Barbarian]

1 minute ago, Riverwalker said:

Using what exists to predict what exists is a far cry from using what exists to determine the how and why of evolution

No, that's wrong.   Aside from the fact that we directly observe the mechanisms of evolution, which are still happening, data from all sorts of things can show us what was going on in living things many millions of years ago.  Would you like some examples?

 

[Riverwalker]

Just now, BeyondET said:

Actually God did not create sea animals or land animals from dust. In both accounts God says let the waters and let the earth bring forth.

And He said they did. In one day

[Sparks]

1 hour ago, The Barbarian said:

But because we can observe long period comets, we can know that it exists and how far out it is.   And we know it's a cloud, not a disk, because long-period comets come in from all directions.   Kepler's laws and Newton's theory of gravitation, allow us to find the aphelion (most distant point of the orbit) of these comets, and therefore the distance to the Oort cloud.

The Oort cloud, named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is a hypothetical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au. --  Wikipedia

Forgive me, but I cannot take your arguments seriously.  I won't be addressing them from now on.   But I thank you for the chat.

[BeyondET]

1 minute ago, Riverwalker said:

And He said they did. In one day

No two days, 5th sea animals