Gnostic, I just know that I won't expect to find an elephant fossil in the basalt after an elephant tries suicide by jumping into the lake of lava in a caldera :D.
I'm not a palaeontologist either and didn't even do any course in palaeontology.
Fossilisation can occur in different circumstances. The most obvious one is when a plant or animal dies, and then is relatively quickly covered by sediments (whether caused by water, wind or chemically), before...
Yes, I must admit I laughed mao about this one. Obviously someone doesn't know how C14 is formed in the atmosphere...yet he tries to tell us that all those specialists on the subject are all wrong.
Err, no. Actual South African Geologist here. The approximately 182 million year old basalts now forming the Drakensberg Mountains were formed when basaltic and andesitic lavas reached the then surface. This happened as a result of rifting tectonics; the breakup of the Gondwana. Needless to...
I guess that's why he went to America. More money to be made from stupidity.
In Australia the percentage of really, really stupid people would be similar to the percentage in the US. There's just many more people in the US. Hence, more stupid people to make money from.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because a majority of the people in the world nowadays hunt for their food at the local supermarket instead of in the bush? Shooting another living thing is icky to me.
Not really. I am religious.
What gives me a good laugh, though, is when creationists call science a religion.
Why is it that some religious people try to use the term "religious" as a form of abuse? It seems paradoxical. If I wanted to insult creationism, I wouldn't do so by calling it...