«Patterson has been quote mined several
times by creationists, most notably from a tape recording of a talk he gave in 1981 at the American Museum of Natural History for a systematics discussion group.
Not exact matches
«Contrary to claims
by creationists, macro and microevolution describe fundamentally identical processes on different
time scales.»
Since
creationists now claim that their putative «magic seed» volume is diluted 10 ^ 150 +
times by inflation, their claim is now revealed as the most insanely erroneus idea ever devised
by man!
By the
time I graduated from high school I had read many
Creationist books and had the debates
time after
time, and was no doubt obnoxiously sure of myself.
Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last
time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution;
by which they may enlist
creationists and their claims, was taken out
by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually
by the school board members.
The fossils form such a neatly graded series, getting less and less ape - like and more and more human as they get closer in
time to the present, that the most earnest
creationist can do little more than muddy the waters
by inflating and distorting the existence of points of disagreement between specialists, or trying to revive long since discredited Homo sapiens specimens once claimed to have been from extremely ancient deposits.
He goes on to list the tiredest old
creationist canards, each of which has been answered a thousand
times by evolutionary biologists.