Wow, how deceptive are you.
GoodScienceForYou wrote on Sep 1st, 2010 at 7:41pm:For years the answer the "transition" from fish to reptile was the mud skipper fish. The mud skipper fish has been around for a long time and has not changed. It has been found to be from the Devonian period of 416 to 359.2 Million years ago.
Provide some citations that a) the mud skipper has been the "answer" to the transition question, and b) mudskippers were found to be from the Devonian period? I'm certainly not aware of any such claims.
GoodScienceForYou wrote on Sep 1st, 2010 at 7:41pm:Keep in mind that I do not believe in this radiometric dating as being accurate beyond about 10 to 20 THOUSAND years, because beyond that is a huge stretch of "ass um tion" . I never consider "Assumption" to be a scientific word. It is the words you find from believers who want to believe. There is no way to verify this dating system as absolute truth. You think about it?
Yes, we know you don't believe anything that you don't make up yourself. As for radiometric dating, there are many types and techniques for radiometric dating, some which are accurate for 10k to 20k old specimens, and many which are for ranges over 400 million years. It is true that some assumptions must be made, but the fact remains that the lack of precision due to these assumptions is always reflected in the resulting date, and the values chosen for the assumptions are validated by applying different techniques and confirming the results across all tests.
GoodScienceForYou wrote on Sep 1st, 2010 at 7:41pm:Now comes the other fish, "that must have been the first fish to walk out of the water." The "Tiktaalik". There is only, one fossil of this fish, and they age it a a convenient 365 Million years.
This is where you are mistaken. The noteworthy information here is not that Tiktaalik was dated at 365 million years - in fact, it's precisely the opposite! Scientists new where the shoreline was 365 million years ago, and predicted that they would find a fossil like Tiktaalik there. The fact that they DID find it - or rather, found
them, because they found 3, not one - is a validation of the prediction, and a validation of the Theory of Evolution.
GoodScienceForYou wrote on Sep 1st, 2010 at 7:41pm:Why would anyone want to continue to degrade science like this?
That's the question we have to ask ourselves every time we visit this forum.