What r u guys doing up so late anyway? Ghost hunting? LOL..
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Sure, even tho there's no evidence, and eyewitnesses are absolutely unreliable. Also, there has NEVER been verifiable evidence of similar events occurring. But, sure, like you say, we can't rule it out, just like you can't rule out our hypothesis.
But this is exactly the situation for which Russell's Teapot was designed.
No, sorry I wasn't clear. There are two separate ideas.
There have been extinctions caused by man, such as Sloths and Mammoths, roughly 4-5 thousand years ago.
There have been many extinctions not caused by man since the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (killed the dinos) as well. The example on in the link I provided you was the terror birds who died off ~2 million years ago.
Both of these are detailed in the link I provided and in many other scientifically reputable reports.
You may be confused in that many species go extinct every year. The differentiator for an "extinction event" is the rate of extinctions is much higher.
Now get out there and read on your own, I am done spoon feeding.
By definition, an unexplainable experience has no possible explanation.
I've had some. In the end, I wasn't able to explain them.
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This is moot. The fact that the Bible's written history of mankind aligns chronologically with the real written history of mankind is pretty obvious. There is no substantive debate about the dates Christ was on earth, the time civilization arose, etc. So why are you using this to support your thesis about the real debate about pre-historic times?
Prehistoric times were before there were written records and this is where the creationist and scientific views about the ascent of man significantly diverge.
May be a small point, but I'll point out that unexplainable is context dependent.
Someone in an aboriginal society could validly state "a rainbow is unexplainable" meaning they cannot explain it, even though others can.
Someone looks out the airplane window and says "there is a UFO above the clouds" and it is unexplainable to them, when someone else might know it to be the reflection of the moon
Other things might be unexplainable to everyone and anyone in the world
Sum up: it could be "something i can' explain" something "we (in a limited group) can't explain," or something "no human can explain."
Fair point.
What I was getting at is that I frequently find believers in mystical forces essentially saying that "because this cannot be explained I can explain exactly what it is" which turns out to be unproven mystical forces.
Thank yo for the name corrrection, and since there are several biology textbooks, there was never a chance for a monopoly. Miller has only opposed those books that mislead on evolution.
Evolution is not random, the direction is supplied by the environment.
Biologically, the only sensible way to make a group called "fish" is to include all land vertebrates inside of it.
See the oringal post.