Terry Hurlbut, Conservapedia, Essay:Evolution Is More Vulnerable than Ever

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[re: the fish-tetrapod transitional fossil tiktaalik being found in the very geological stratum predicted by evolution]

And tiktaalik might have been found in that deep stratum for either of at least two reasons:

1. It was less able to seek higher ground than other, "smarter" animals, and thus was buried deep in the Flood.

2. It is actually an antediluvian laboratory chimera and hence an out-of-place artifact of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.

Terry Hurlbut, Conservapedia, Essay:Evolution Is More Vulnerable than Ever 60 Comments [6/11/2012 3:33:33 AM]
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#1411959

mikek44224

1. If the animals are organized in the fossil strata by intelligence in escaping the flood water, why are they ordered so perfectly instead of being overlapping uniform distributions? Couldn't there have been a particularly smart compsognathus and a particularly derpy smilodon?

2. What the actual fuck?!

6/11/2012 8:22:51 AM

#1411961

Draken

Also:
All this extra attention can mean only one thing: the evolutionary paradigm is more vulnerable to abandonment than it has been since Charles Darwin first proposed it.

Rumours of Darwin's untimely demise have been greatly exaggerated.

6/11/2012 8:26:15 AM

#1411965

Prager

I wonder who has the job of reminding Terry to breathe.

6/11/2012 8:28:28 AM

#1411981

WWWWolf

> antediluvian laboratory chimera

Why does an omnipotent, all-wise, all-knowing God need to create "laboratory chimeras"? Can't He get his shit right the first time?

6/11/2012 9:16:58 AM

#1411983

"the fish-tetrapod transitional fossil tiktaalik"

Wow... would this mean it's basically a fish with legs and can swim and breathe water?

"It was less able to seek higher ground than other, "smarter" animals, and thus was buried deep in the Flood."

IT FUCKING SWIMS!!!!

6/11/2012 9:27:11 AM

#1411993

Pule Thamex

Very commendable of you to point out these evolution busting tit-bits Terry. However, once you point out the obvious truth, as revealed in the greatest science text book ever written, the Bible, then all else is redundant.

Once everyone realizes that God took a handful of dust, muttered abracadabra, and lo, there sat a man called Adam, then evolution is dead in the ground.

6/11/2012 9:55:48 AM

#1411995

agentCDE

Or maybe, just maybe, tiktaalik showed up exactly where scientists said he would because they were right all along! Of course, that would mean you were wrong, and we can't have that.

6/11/2012 9:57:46 AM

#1411996

farpadokly

I've sent Occam round with his razor to slit your throat for violating logic so badly.

6/11/2012 9:58:04 AM

#1412006

Ludd

And.....the silver medal in mental gymnastics goes to......Terry Hurlbut.

Sorry, Andy already took all of the gold.

6/11/2012 10:33:56 AM

#1412064

Old Viking

I've always been pretty solid with evolution, but now ...

6/11/2012 11:58:39 AM

#1412071

RiJayden

A fish seeking 'higher ground'..... Dafuq?

How 'bout reason 3: 'It died and was covered by sediment that hardened and sealed the fossil thousands of years ago, proving evolution right and Fundies wrong.'

6/11/2012 12:07:33 PM

#1412079

nazani14

"an antediluvian laboratory chimera" made by people too stupid to make a boat.

6/11/2012 12:18:04 PM

#1412085

rlrr

Someone please tell me that Conservapedia is the biggest Poe of all time.

I suppose it could be Andrew Schlafly's way of getting back at his mother by making conservative look really stupid.

6/11/2012 12:29:33 PM

#1412119

Night Jaguar

"antediluvian laboratory chimera"

Terry Hurlbut (hehehe) just solved all the creationists' problems. All the fossil evidence is just the barbarous works of antidiluvian scientists! This sounds sooooo much better than the devil buried them.

6/11/2012 1:19:04 PM

#1412124

JohnTheAtheist

I'm with you Netboy, I know its juvenile but I still laugh everytime I see the name "Hurlbut".

However, Hurlbut must a synonym for Dumbass because this argument is retarded. OK, you want to explain the layered fossil record by claiming that smarter animals would have been better able to reach higher ground during the flood. On the surface that makes a little sense I guess...a little. The problem is that it is 100% true. Apparently there was not one human being that was too sick, or too handicapped to make it to higher ground. No one was in jail. Every single human being that we have found was able to get to higher ground. Every other advanced primate as well.

Fucking idiot. Get off my internet.

And by the way, David B. FTW! That was awesome dude.

6/11/2012 1:25:49 PM

#1412126

Berny

The more you stupid fuckers try to explain away these wonderful finds to fit your Bible fairy tales, the more you sound like idiots.

6/11/2012 1:29:06 PM

#1412138

anevilmeme

Does anyone seriously think Conservapedia isn't a Poe site?

6/11/2012 1:47:14 PM

#1412162

Shax

Much like Abe Vigoda, rumors of evolution's imminent demise are both premature and highly exaggerated.

6/11/2012 3:16:21 PM

#1412195

Alencon

Evolution is more vulnerable than ever? Does this idiot honestly think that the distribution of animal fossils in the stratum is due to the "dumber" animals not being able to make it to higher ground?

Can anyone honestly believe this with not a single exception ever discovered? Not to mention the little issue of different levels of radioactive decay.

I don't even fucking understand the second "reason." There was an antedeluvian society in fucking Northern Canada with laboratories? And your evidence for this is?

I mean, WTF? I have to stop reading FSTDT. One of these days my head is going to explode.

6/11/2012 4:39:25 PM

#1412217

Papabear

3. The tiktaalik fossil is just as presented and you're an idiot asshat.

6/11/2012 6:07:20 PM

#1412261

ok, clams are found high on mt everest. clams therefore are very smart and climb quickly.

CLAMS GOT LEGS !!!

or maybe not.

6/11/2012 8:43:24 PM

#1412297

Teadusemees

Funny how that fundie completely missed the point - Tiktaalik was found from where it was PREDICTED to be, using knowledge about evolution.

6/12/2012 12:42:30 AM

#1412303

Night Jaguar

Pffft, the successful prediction by evolution was just a fluke.

Pre-Flood laboratory experiment of ancient sadistic scientists is clearly a much more likely explanation.

6/12/2012 1:25:18 AM

#1412313

bennyboy

Antediluvian Laboratory Chimera.

Their first few albums were quite good, but they sold out after that.

6/12/2012 2:05:37 AM

#1412478

QuasiRodent

@Netboy: Meh, mocking someone's name is a crude, unhelpful ad-hominem. :p

6/12/2012 12:23:59 PM

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