How do Jehovah's Witnesses Explain This Fossil Record?

by sabastious 143 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  cameo-d

  Here's a Fossil Record for you.....

  SAN FRANCISCO — At first listen, the grainy high-pitched warble coming from the speakers may not sound like much.

  But scientists say a recently discovered French recording from 1860 is the oldest known recorded human voice.

  The 10-second clip of a woman singing the song "Au Clair de la Lune" taken from a so-called phonautogram was recently discovered by Grammy-winning audio historian David Giovannoni.

  The recording predates Thomas Edison's "Mary had a little lamb" — previously credited as the oldest recorded voice — by 17 years.

  The sound waves were captured using a phonautograph, a device created by a Parisian inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, that captured a visual record of sound.

  The phonautograph etched sound waves into paper covered in soot created by a burning oil lamp. Lines were etched into the soot by a needle moved by a diaphragm on the device that responded to sound.

  Giovannoni and his research partner, Patrick Feaster, began looking for phonautograms last year. In December they discovered two of Scott's — from 1857 and 1859 — while searching the French patent office.

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342590,00.html
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  VM44

  How does The Watchtower explain the fossil record?

  By making things up while typing at their typewriters, that's how!
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  debator

  You prove my point. Darwinism is defeated by it's own ever-changing diversity of guesswork by a muliplicity of scientists on what happens over millions/billions of years (and on an admitedly faulty and limited fossil record) that just sounds good.

  Basically "It sounds scientific enough so it must be true!" or "a qualified scientist made it as a guess so it must have happenned as fact (despite the fact he will change his mind again next week and put on a new possibiliy which I then will agree happened as fact instead)"

  Our "new light" has nothing on the ever-changing world of darwinism. You give up God because of minor adjustments to bible prophecy understanding for a subject that not even the scientists themselves can agree on?

  That people on here need to look up the latest journal or ask leolaia for the latest developments!

  Your right leolaia embryonic fins were disproved and you had to update my point as well. So 3 different scientific light changes on small point which involved rejecting one idea completely (that once sounded so good that someone still used it as "proof" on here).

  Theories and guesswork (however intricate the science they are based on) are not proof.

  What is the explanation of the cambrian explosion? pick any one of many speculations out of darwinism's hat constantly getting added too, some mentioned on this thread already. But Darwin himself and many modern scholars as well agree that it is one of the main objections that could be made against his theory of evolution by natural selection.

  Darwinism offers too many theories and no enough actual proof.

  People are just putting their faith in the speculations of men when they choose darwinism.

  A least as believers in God we are honest about needing faith.
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  VM44

  "Faith is believing something you know ain't true." (Mark Twain)
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  bohm

  A study in how Debator argue.

  1) I asked debator a question: what part of the fossil record was the flood responsible for?

  2) Debator goes on a rant that somehow try to confuse changes in science to "new light". Its absolutely irrelevant, but debator like that particular rant.

  3) Suddenly, the question is not answered. Who would have imagined!

  Debator, the WT has never tried to answer the above question. My guess is you wont either, you will at most copy-paste an article you wont commit to yourself because deep down you know you dont have an answer.

  But lets see.
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  isaacaustin

  I noticed that bohm. Reniaa (Debator) has not changed.
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  bohm

  Debator - just so you can dont say i ask a question i dont answer myself. Let me answer the above question in great details:

  This is how you determine if a given geological formation was put down by the flood of Noah.

  1) Pick any geological formation.

  2) It was not put down by the flood of noah.

  Want to give it a go?
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  debator

  Hi bohm

  Please stop asking falacial questions. I already said (and it has been admitted on here by others) that the fossil record is only 10% at best of records. No one can prove or disprove anything by it. There are simply not enough fossil Jigsaw pieces available.
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  HintOfLime

  I already said (and it has been admitted on here by others) that the fossil record is only 10% at best of records. No one can prove or disprove anything by it. There are simply not enough fossil Jigsaw pieces available.

  The bible is <0.0001% at best a "historical record". In Jesus life alone, entire decades of his life are unrecorded. THEREFORE, by your own logic: No one can prove or disprove anything by it. There is simply not enough historical Jigsaw pieces available.

  In other words: What you just said was extremely stupid... and we know far more about life and earth by means of observation than the bible "reveals" (which is often outright wrong, see: "Waters above" lol).

  - Lime
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  sabastious

  Oooo, hintoflime, you make a great point!

  -Sab