Originally posted by scottishinnzDidn't know that about the whole aquatic thing. So that whole Middle Eastern area was underwater once upon a time. A flood, perhaps? Makes you wonder, don't it. "909 billion tonnes of coal and about 180 billion tonnes of oil worldwide" is kinda disproportionate to the 99% plant biomass worldwide that you quoted earlier. Now it seems that everything you have said so far is skeptic. Except for the stuff that you quoted from wiki because we all know that the entire intellectual world coming together to create an open source encyclopedia where actually anyone could post any foolishness they desire, wouldn't becoma a playground for clowns. I am in the process of researching the rest of the stuff. This is exciting!!
You dog didn't have enough time, pressure, or heat to turn into oil. Also, oil is the remains of aquatic creatures. I'd hazard a guess that your dog isn't a marine animal.
Apparently there is some 909 billion tonnes of coal and about 180 billion tonnes of oil worldwide (http://www.geohive.com/charts/index.php/). There is only about 75 billion ton ...[text shortened]... l and coal, it'd require about 15 floods back to back, and perfect efficiency of conversion.
Originally posted by beerbrewerWell, the Saudi Geological Survey (www.sgs.org.sa) seems that Saudi has been up and down a few times, with rock strata aged at ~700 myo, and several less than 500 million years old, which makes them prime candidates for oil. The seas that covered Saudi were shallow, which favours both a good mixing of the water column (essential in nutrient cycling, for high productivity), and light penetration (for photosynthesis).
Didn't know that about the whole aquatic thing. So that whole Middle Eastern area was underwater once upon a time. A flood, perhaps? Makes you wonder, don't it. "909 billion tonnes of coal and about 180 billion tonnes of oil worldwide" is kinda disproportionate to the 99% plant biomass worldwide that you quoted earlier. Now it seems that everything you ha ...[text shortened]... nd for clowns. I am in the process of researching the rest of the stuff. This is exciting!!
Coal was largely deposited throughout the Devonian and Carboniferous (~370 - 300 million years ago). Oil desposits are typically younger than this, perhaps deposited within the last 200 million years.
Originally posted by scottishinnzI have no doubt that if you poke and prod an ameoba long enough and hard enough, blast it with a little radiation and do all kinds of other "scientific" stuff to it, that it wouldn't change into something... But it still doesn't explain how my turnip changed into a cat.
see Archaeopteryx, a transitory species, in between reptiles and birds.
In animals;
"Dobzhansky and Pavlovsky (1971) reported a speciation event that occurred in a laboratory culture of Drosophila paulistorum sometime between 1958 and 1963. The culture was descended from a single inseminated female that was captured in the Llanos of Colombia. In 1 ...[text shortened]... assortative mating (Dobzhansky 1972)."
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
In an article published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society in 1984 (Vol. 82, pp. 119-158) and called "The avian relationship of Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds", R. A. Thulborn argues that Archaeopteryx is not, in fact, a bird at all! From careful morphological analysis of birds, dinosaurs, reptiles and Archaeopteryx he concludes that Archaeopteryx is no more closely related to birds than several types of theropod dinosaurs including tyrannosaurids and ornithomimids. He argues that Archaeopteryx is not an ancestral bird and transfers it to the dinosaur suborder Theropoda.
Originally posted by Halitose😴😴
I love the way one can just interchange fact and theory like they're one and the same thing.
Darwin's Fact of Evolution! Has a better ring to it, don't you think?
Does your super skepticism include not referring to chairs as chairs because, after all, it is possible that no reality exists at all?
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Originally posted by beerbrewerat no point is anyone not on drugs sugesting that your turnip, or any other turnip has ever turned into a cat.
I have no doubt that if you poke and prod an ameoba long enough and hard enough, blast it with a little radiation and do all kinds of other "scientific" stuff to it, that it wouldn't change into something... But it still doesn't explain how my turnip changed into a cat.
what we are saying is there was probably a species of single cell organisum which evolved into (atleast) two different species, one of which is the distant relative, after a few billion years of evolution, of your turnip and one which is the distant relative of your cat. plus we din't invent poking proding and radiation blasts. see earthquakes, metorites, lightning, volcanos, background radiation (where do you think we get the uranium from?), and other life forms trying to eat you. nature has been proding and poking a long time before we started doing it.
as to how it works. no one creature has ever turned into another, otherwise lemmings would grow wings on the way down. evolution works because the offspring of creatures is
similar but not identical to the parent/s. if the differences are benificial they increase the chance of reproduction and thus passing on those differences to the next generation. each change is tiny but over time (LOTS of time) it can change one creature into another. if you get several different differences each being benificial in a different way then you can have a divergance where some creatures develope one advantage, and others develope another. eventually the differences get so large they can't succesfully inter breed. at which point you have seperate species. all this has been opserved, see above articles. This is another load of words. try this thing called reading them.