Creation vs Evolution

[doc_bean]

Yes, I was being lazy, but I'm talking about transitions of the animals we see. A cat has been a cat for all of recorded history.

All of recorded history being roughly 5000 years, where as the human species as we know it is about 100 000 years old and life existed almost a billion years ago (according to evolution yeah yeah). Macro evolution is a slow process, you can't expect to prove it in a few years, it takes millennia for a different species to form.

You know the clock analogy don't you ? If the entire existence of earth was scaled to 24h, the existence of mankind would only take up the last 5 minutes or so. Evolution is slow, 5000 years is nothing compared to the timescale of evolution.

[Marcellus]

You know the clock analogy don't you ? If the entire existence of earth was scaled to 24h, the existence of mankind would only take up the last 5 minutes or so. Evolution is slow, 5000 years is nothing compared to the timescale of evolution.

It's not even that. In the clock analogy, modern humans (Homo Sapiens) have existed for about two seconds. Early cave paintings date to the equivalent of 0.6 seconds ago. In short, we really haven't been around that long.

[KingOfTheIsles]

But, there's no evidence disproven my theory either. Has the comet thing been proven?

I believe the crater that forms the Gulf of Mexico has been dated to be approximately 65 million years old, which corresponds with the decline of the dinosaurs and was caused by a meteor impact. That doesn't definitively prove it, but is definitely evidence in favour of being at least a partial cause.

[Zain]

Zain, merely that there are marks on human bones that match sabre tooth tigre's teeth is not conclusive. Nothing is. Perhaps God put them there. Perhaps aliens did. Perhaps the mammoth chewed the human's leg off.

Commet theory: sort of. There's a lot of iridium in a layer of dust that is extremely unusual unless a comet has hit. And I believe that there is evidence of a meteor strike in Canada (I think). After that it's conjecture.

But there have been many extinctions as shown in the fossil record. True, the sudden end of the dinosaurs is the most popular, but one of the earlier ones wiped out 90% of life on the planet.

Concerning Noah, I admit that once God enters the equation why not grab the water and then dump it. I'd say that it seems a great hastle when he could just kill the troublemakers. Oh, and a very similar story appears in other religious texts that predate the Bible.

What animals look like is their phenotype
Animals genetic code is their genotype

Rabbits and hairs look alike, but are not genetically similar (so, same phenotype, different genotype)
A poodle and a rottweiler may look very different, but have very similar genes.

Crocodiles and some dinosaurs look alike. Dinosaurs varied a lot. Some even had wings, and it is thought are the ancestors of modern birds.

But, it's more conclusive then simply saying it. As far as the sabertooths and mammoths go.

Concerning the flood and it's multiple appearances. That just increases the possibility of it being true, does it not? I'm guessing he wanted to keep it all natural, as far as killing goes.

I believe the crater that forms the Gulf of Mexico has been dated to be approximately 65 million years old, which corresponds with the decline of the dinosaurs and was caused by a meteor impact. That doesn't definitively prove it, but is definitely evidence in favour of being at
least a partial cause.

It's possible.