Thanks, Squeers, glad to keep you amused. But I was responding to a quite specific question from someone else.

Genesis 7:22
Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. 

D S M

>> Genesis 7:22
Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. <<

Well that explains all the plants - therefore no Olive Branch for dove to return. Doesn't explain how the fresh water fish coped with saltwater, nor the breeding season of salmon returning from the oceans to their fresh water spawning streams.

You never answered whether Noah kept samples of bacteria or viruses on petrie dishes, I guess the petrie dishes would been made out of pottery - not the best medium for keeping micro-organisms that would not survive the altered acidity/temperature of oceans. I guess seaweed must've been gigantic - maybe the dove brought back a great lump of seaweed.

Please note that seeds do not last long in water - particularly those of dry climes - like the olive, for an olive tree to take root when the oceans subsided - not possible. And where did the water go? Just evaporated I guess - temperatures must have been higher then. Must've been monster storms with all that water vapour forming clouds, but then the water would've returned as rain.

Going round in circles - that's the bible for you.

Saltpetre

I enjoy this beautiful world as it is and I don't need a celestial carrot to do the right thing by others - as a social being like other humans cooperation works best. Albeit not for everyone - we all are subject to differences in personality just as we in height, build, colouring. Some people are just plain nasty - probably a result of the randomness of natural selection. Oooops I referred to evolution.

Dan,

Apparently scientists have successfully named and classified over 1.5 million species - and that's only the ones that "have" been classified.

- I guess Noah had a really good filing system : )

Dan It is now believed the trilobites as a species succumbed to a global warming event like the one we are experiencing now, after living for millions of years and being very successful the increase in the acidity of the oceans dissolved their calcite shells ( especially their eyes that were made from calcite crystals.) There are a few theories going around but the latest studies on how an acidic ocean is affecting calcium shelled mollusks and corals is giving weight to this theory.

If as you suggest they were all buried why did so many other bottom dwelling species survive and the trilobite die ? ( again many species if trilobite were capable of free swimming and could have survived better than plants and animals that can only crawl across the sea floor or live attached to the sea floor.

Seriously think about what you are suggesting, it does not make sense does it?

As for your comments about my disability, you also display a massive amount of ignorance. most dyslexics have a higher than average IQ we only have problems communicating in written form. Without a computer spell check and grammar I have the writing ability of a 6 year old. Without wishing to seem like boasting repeated testing has rated my IQ in the 160 to 180 ranges. I have problems reading and writing not thinking.

Please think before you make insulting comments about others especially those who suffer disabilities, like me we have spent our lives dealing with ignorance and intolerance like you have shown here in your comments.

"Mendel's theories were ignored for decades after publication, possibly as they were thought to be out of step with Darwin’s theory of evolution."

Posted by Dan S de Merengue, Thursday, 12 May 2011 12:46:48 AM

Mendel's work, and laws of inheritance based on that work, was ignored for years because it was published in German, not for the spurious reasons you assert.

Darwin's theory did not require the acquisition of new characteristics, just changes in the proportion those characteristics were present in subsequent generations in the population, as has been validated to occur.

"Dan Dare,
"ou might consider that it is reasonable that reptiles evolved into birds. Others may not. My point was that it is not an observation. No one observed any such thing."

Of course no one observed reptiles evolving into birds - it happened over millions of years. Subtle changes in populations over many, many generations is the hallmark of evolution.

We can however observe the gradual development of feather like scales on various dinosaurs and compare those to the feathers and scales on modern birds. Especially with the similarities between ancient flightless feathered dinosaurs and modern flightless birds like the Ostrich and Emu.

Recent fossil bed discoveries especially those in China show this development in great detail.

Many of the old claims of creationists like "the fossil record is incomplete" just do not hold true anymore.

We have excellent examples of many of the so called "Transitional Fossils" they have been asking for.

( Every fossil is a transitional fossil as the changes are constant and ongoing. )