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When Creationists claim all similar design equals a designer it shoots themselves in the foot on occasion.

In both humans and giraffe the neck is made up of 7 cervical neck vertebrae. While it doesn’t cause many problems in humans in the case of giraffes it’s a different story. Since the amount of vertebrae constricts the giraffe’s neck flexibility they have to awkwardly splay their legs amount to graze or drink. This leads to severe arthritis and chronic pain in giraffe legs. Why would a designer without vertebrae from a giraffe when birds like swans have upwards of 20.

Anyways this post’s goal is to share bad design plans in nature and if any creationist can make sense of them.

When I first accepted evolution my stance was believe God building evolution through billions of years. It was nice being able to consider evolution without leaving Christianity. However I am now an agnostic after realizing there is lack of evidence to corroborate the Christian god.

The goal of this post is not to rip on Theistic Evolutionists but, to see if there’s legitimate evidence for God existing and driving evolution.

The article “Whale Genetics and Evolution” from Answers in Genesis out of the endless stupid claims it makes one stands out. The writers claim Protocetids were or closely related to Pinnipeds. Anyone with a middle school understanding of taxonomy knows this is a horrible argument but why exactly?

First all protocetids had an involocrum with a sigmoid process that only cetaceans have. This allows for directional interpretation of different underwater acoustic frequencies. While Creationists usually deny this it still raises the question while does this “Pinniped” have the diagnostic ear of Cetaceans?

The other major structure I would want to touch on is the double pulley astragalus. This trait only possessed by Artiodactyls locks the ankle in a single locomotive direction increasing the speed of the foot. If any animal would lack this it would be semi aquatic Pinnipeds. However Protocetids and even some Basilosaurids have it. Again why do these supposed Pinnipeds have ankles that belong to Artiodactyls?

I am not really expecting Answers in Genesis to have an answer, nor any Creations other than mysterious ways or nuh uh. The better choice to keep your donors feeling like they’re supporting an organization that validates their beliefs is to never bring it up or quickly dismiss it.

Also I’m willing to pay any Creationist who gives me a reasonable explanation for this discrepancy.

A major talking point for creationists is birds are knee walkers and dinosaurs are hip walkers so they’re not the same kinds.

However even if we forget the problems with this method of classification a major dinosaurian group likely posses a more avian form of locomotion.

The Therizinosaurs are the most basal form of maniraptoran dinosaurs to the point even AiG doesn’t consider them birds.

However they posses a opisthopubic pubis where it points backwards to make room for their fermenting digestive tract.

A main point creationists love to harp on is the lizard hipped dinosaurs evolved into the bird hipped dinosaurs and that somehow disprove bird evolution. Forgetting this distinction is mainly predicated on the orientation of the pubis, so therizinosaurus and its relatives had bird hips in that sense.

Another interesting fact is its incredibly small tail for its size compared to other large theropods. The muscles like the Caudofemeralis Longus and Brevis Fossa are greatly reduced. It adopted a more knee driving locomotion which Creationists say is a key difference between theropods and birds.

The last thing I’ll touch on is the proto-wing therizinosaurs possessed. The semilunate carpal, a half moon shaped bone in the wrist, allows modern birds to fold their wings. This carpal is a defining trait of Maniraptora which means all of its members had it including Therizinosaurs

Now Creationists rarely touch on this matter because it’s detrimental to their conclusions that birds aren’t dinosaurs.

I’ll claim there‘s not enough room on the Ark for all of the kinds. Creationists respond with Noah took babies and their evidence for it is God did it.

The progenitors on the Ark don’t have a large enough genome space for all of the information needed to father all members of a kind. Their explanation is God gave them extra information with the evidence being God did it.

Noah’s Ark would have twisted in half due to its size and the waves. God apparently gave Noah magic plans and dimensions that have no evidence of existence.

The energy released by radioactive decay ,continental drift ,volcanos ,and asteroid impacts would boil the oceans and melt the continents. Even Answers in Genesis admits it had to been a miracle no evidence just God did it.

A majority of creationist arguments are baseless assertions stacked on more assertions.

It’s like me claiming I see the vegetable fairy ,but every time I try to take a picture of it Zach the Sky Penguin throws pizza at my camera blocking it ,and the vegetable fairy flies away on a space narwhal.

There simply is no evidence just God did it.

My personal favorite is Amphicoelias fragillimus for its unbelievable size and interesting story of its backbone disappearing into thin air.However now it’s known to have belonged to a rebbachisaurid called Maraapunisaurus.Even if it’s not the giant creature it was described as it’s still a brilliant chapter in paleontology.

mean DNA doesn’t require a designer but you can see why one would use it.

It’s great vessel of storing information to be passed down and potentially mutate showing better traits for survival.

However DNA is incredibly vulnerable to harmful mutations in small populations. An intelligent designer doesn’t necessarily have to incorporate something ,but it’s still an aspect that’ isn’t indicative of one. This isn’t the case though as two chimpanzees in the same rainforest are said to have more biodiversity than all humans.

Speaking about apes why would an intelligent designer give them genes for tails. Both humans and other apes have an Alu element interspersed in TBXT gene responsible for causing the growth of tails. Another well known pseudogene is the GULO gene which manufacturers vitamin C. About 60-50 million years ago Haplorhini primates lived in citrus fruit rich environments leading to the GULO gene being redundant. A single nucleotide in the common ancestral of Haplorhini monkeys was deleted in Exon 10 of the gene. Orangutans ,Gorillas ,Chimpanzees ,Bonobos ,and humans still retain this deletion of the same nucleotide in the same spot.

It seems DNA might not be evidence for an intelligent designer but what about expressed traits? I could potentially go on and on about structures in animals that don’t make sense but I’ll talk by favorite. In archosaurs like crocodiles and dinosaurs they have a tail muscle called the CFL or Caudofemoralis longus that attaches to the fourth trochanter. This exact same structure is in paleognatehs like ostriches and emus that don’t have long tails. It’s like use a bicycle chain to move car wheels.

Anyways it’s evident there is no designer or at minimum
it’s not an intelligent designer.

I’m personally torn between the T.Rex with the gate and the Compsognathus from the new mini-wave.

Also I want to point out the dinosaur pops are much higher in quality than the human pops in my honest opinion.The lacked of a force enlarged head ,different eye colors ,and variation between sizes are the three primary reasons why I consider the dinosaurs to be superior to then humans.

As my username suggests I love Carnotaurus.it’s a very unique and interesting dinosaur with horns ,speed ,and arms that make T.Rex’s look big.

Now this goes to any dinosaur underutilized in the films but Carnotaurus is a special case.

It appears in JWFK ,JWD ,and CC but it doesn’t get scenes that differentiate it enough from other theropods like velociraptor or Compsognathus.It was even planned to be in The Lost World and Rebirth that could camouflage like the book one does.However in every piece of media it was failed.

Now what makes its underutilization different from dinosaurs?Ceratosaurus got to smell some shit and that was it.On the other hand Carnotaurus was supposed to be in and was in a majority of the movies and shows but it wasn’t given a unique threat.

The T.Rex is the most dangerous carnivore ,raptors are highly intelligent ,Dilophosaurus has frills and venom , compys can swarm you ,and the Spinosaurus is semi aquatic.Carnotaurus kinda just snaps near people and roars nothing special.

What if it had the ability to run as fast as jeeps on the terrain and ram it sending it off its wheels?It would’ve made a great replacement for the T.Rex in the jeep chase ,but it’s reduced to a generic theropod that eats the air.

Dinosaurs aren’t birds because the Bible says birds were created on day 5 and dinosaurs were created on day 6.

Only birds have feathers and all the dinosaurs will feathers were birds or collagen fibers.

The Hoatzin has unfused wing fingers for its juvenile stage so Archaeopteryx(excluding everything else) is a bird.

Alan Feduccia says birds aren’t dinosaurs.

Birds have hollow bones and are warm blooded not like dinosaurs.

Flying is irreducibly complex it couldn’t have evolved.

Bird have wings and dinosaurs don’t.

Microraptor is a bird because it has feathers.

Checkmate evolutionists these are my best arguments.

Just to be sure this is sarcasm.

This isn’t going to be a lengthy post just a sparknotes version.

The Noachian flood couldn’t have happened with the big 5 extinction events.

All marine life would have died during the flood due to all extinction events being compressed into a year.Both anoxia events being the Late Ordovician and Late Devonian would have depleted all oxygen from the ocean.This would have killed all animals depending on ocean oxygen not just placoderms and other groups.

The eruption of the Siberian traps in the Late Permian and the CAMP in the Late Triassic would have made air unbreathable and oceans boiling.The amount of volcanic dust would have made the air toxic to the point there might no even be oxygen in the air.The Siberian traps alone produced enough magma to cover most of Siberian but that took place over 2 million years.This is going to be compressed into a week or a month and it might have even melted through the continent and made fossilization impossible.Oceans around the world would be hundreds of degrees higher than life could tolerate due to spilling magma and volcanic gas clouds.

As if life isn’t already extinct where comes the K-Pg asteroid to collide with the earth .Causing tsunamis carrying boiling water to vaporize any living thing near it.Asteroid junk gets thrown into space blocking out the sun which life depends for heat.However it would be frigid temperatures but the blanket of detritus in the atmosphere wouldn’t allow toxic air to escape killing everything.

If any creationist tries to argue that the big 5 never happened never happened I think it be good to know these events are documented throughly.The animals on the mythical Ark and in the ocean couldn’t survive.

Sorry I very very oversimplified this but I don’t study the big 5 so if anyone who does is there anything important I left out?

After seeing how creatively bankrupt the franchise is the only way~~ ~~opposed to stopping the franchise to continue the franchise is rebooting it.

The most obvious answers is to adapt the book or to at least make it in line with the book.Have it be a complete horror movie with gore and characters like their book counterparts.

I could definitely get behind a movie or series like this but are there better alternatives to this that I or nobody has thought of?