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IF we where made intelegently who ever made us was rather stupid
So...where would you put it? I think that the inner ear, right next to the brain and in one of the most protected areas of the skull is a great place for it.
As the medical field advances, there are fewer and fewer organs that don't have a purpose (bc doctors find what they really do)....so it's not that they have no purpose, it's just that we aren't advanced enough yet to see what their purposes are.
It may be just me, but it seems like the people arguing against the Creationist theories don't even know what they are, so here ya go.
(got this from http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_statc.htm)
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Biblical catastrophism: Creation scientists believe that the geological formations that we see today were mainly produced over a very short time interval during the Noachian Flood. "The Flood...brought about vast changes in the earth's surface, including volcanism, mountain building, and the deposition of the major part of sedimentary strata."
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Creation processes: During creation week, God used processes about which we have no knowledge, because they are not "operating anywhere in the natural universe" today.
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More recent processes: Most creation scientists believe that God created the world less than 10,000 years ago. Thus, scientists who support evolution are wrong when they point out that certain processes (continental drift, uplift of mountains, deposits of up to one mile-thick layers of sedimentary rock, etc.) took millions of years. The deposit of sedimentary rock, in particular, was completed during the year of Noah's flood.
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Noah's Ark: All humans land animals are descendents of the inhabitants of the ark: of Noah, his family and of the animals that he loaded on board.
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Second Law of Thermodynamics: This law says that the entropy of all systems in the universe tend to decay and become less ordered. This is the opposite to what would be expected if evolution occurred. (Scientists believe in the second law as well. However, they point out that it only applies to closed, isolated systems. The earth is not such a system: energy from the sun drives many of the earth's processes, and permits evolution -- at least for many billion years until it runs out of fuel.)
-I have yet to see a "good" mutation.
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Fossil Record: The earth's fossil-containing sedimentary rocks were laid down during the year-long flood of Noah. The well-known observation that simple forms of life are found at the bottom of the geological column and human remains at the top is explained by three processes: 1. Hydrodynamic selectivity: Trilobites, brachiopods and other invertebrates appear at the lowest levels of the sedimentary rocks. They were already in the sea, and they would tend to fall faster than other forms of life because of their size and shape. 2. Location: Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals would be buried next, since they lived on the land. Thus, they would appear in the geological column above the invertebrates.
-Also, birds would be a little higher up since they can fly…(hence, birds being above reptiles….making evolutionists think that birds evolved from reptiles. Dinosaurs are also in this layer.
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3. Intelligence: The larger, more highly developed animals would have tended to flee from the encroaching waters of the flood. Humans in particular would be the last to drown, as they would have climbed to the highest accessible location.
-This is exactly what we see in the fossil record. The Flood was not only a collapse of the water canopy but also the eruption of every spring and volcano on the surface of the earth. This was a far more catastrophic event than most realize, and the “sediment” came from not only the very disturbed surface of the earth (there would also be massive worldwide earthquakes in such an event) but also the stuff that came from the very active volcanoes. This is also the reason why it could cover the entire surface of the earth (as many of you know, there is not enough water in the oceans, ice caps, and atmosphere combined to cover the surface of the earth today). Many who believe in the Flood speculate that this is when the extinction of the dinosaurs took place and the dinosaurs fit perfectly into the fossil record as presented above^. Also, at the time of the flood, most of mankind and other life was where the Middle East is today (hence, the oil from all the dead stuff…and this *is* where oil comes from if you’ll look it up…although it’s supposed to be “peat” first…). This massive deposit of sediment and the very rapid burial of so many living things explains how so many things could be fossilized in such a short period of time, instead of over billions of years.
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Language diversity: Most creation scientists also believe that God created the variety of languages seen in the world today during the incident at the Tower of Babel, as described in Genesis 11
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Morality: Many creation scientists consider that the Theory of Evolution is responsible for much of the moral decline over the past century. They reason that if people believe that they are descendents of animals, and not as a result of special creation, then they might as well act as animals, without a highly developed sense of ethics.
I like this quote and I think it's very relevant to the original subject of this post:
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Teaching students about the acts of a creator is not a religious exercise because the students are not required to believe in the concept of the creator. The student need only understand that creation scientists believe in this way. Judge Overton replied that this "is contrary to common understanding and contradicts settled case law. Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), Abbington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 222 (1963)."
Now you have something specific to pick at, lol. Also, as you asked, I haven't exactly attacked the theory of evolution either.
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A children's religious program produced by the Institute for Creation Research was broadcast over many conservative Christian radio stations in 2003-FEB. It described how evidence of live dinosaur DNA had been found in a dinosaur bone. If true, it would prove that the dinosaur was alive much more recently than 75 million years ago, because DNA could not possibly remain intact for that long. A writer at the Crying Voice in the Wilderness website was apparently referring to the same experiment whey they wrote: "Some fragments of DNA were found in supposedly 80 million year-old dinosaur bones. This means that the dinosaur bones are only a couple of thousand years old."
And if this is true...well it's interesting anyway:
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Genesis Park® describes a number of images drawn by Neanderthals and by humans in the Middle East which resemble dinosaurs. The suggestion is that the artists were drawing pictures of dinosaurs from memory of having seen the animals.
And this one's cool:
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But even if one of these observations pans out, and it is proven that dinosaurs were alive on earth within historical times, the theory of evolution would not topple. Only one detail -- that dinosaurs are believed to have became extinct about 75 million years ago -- would have to be revised. The basic principle of evolution -- that mutations and natural selection cause new species to develop from existing species over long periods of time -- would remain intact.
And before I go out for awhile, I'd just like to point out the one major flaw in the evolutionist's version of the fossil record: If every layer is supposed to represent several million years, then how can one animal be in more than one layer at a time? (I don't know of any that stretch through more than two layers, but just one in two different layers is a pretty big problem for the evolutionists' theory of how the fossil record was formed....and the only animals tall enough to stretch through 3 or more layers are on their side when they're dead, lol.)
