Of course it's reasonable Interbane. Are you kidding me? You guys are supposed to be the skeptics but you are not sceptical of this theory because it's suits your materialistic philosophy. That's obvious.Interbane wrote:
Flann wrote:
It seems reasonable that if 99.9% of all species that ever existed have become extinct their fossil remains should vastly outnumber the .01% of currently living species in the record.
Sure, if the world worked in a perfectly logical fashion that would be reasonable. But we know the world is quirky, so you need evidence. What evidence do you have that says the ratio should be prima fascia reasonable?
No, you need evidence to substantiate your claim that 99.9% of all species that ever existed went extinct though of course you can believe it on faith.
You are perfectly free to believe in "Granma Fish" if you want to also. Or that dumb matter made intelligent thinking moral beings and that it just stumbled upon the incredibly complex genetic codes and biological systems and that beauty in nature is just an incidental illusion this entirely functionally adaptive process tagged on etc.
All so easy really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zQXgJ-dXM4&t=156s It's your obligatory faith that life somehow started itself no matter how utterly contrary to known laws of biogenesis or the stupendous improbability that such could ever happen by chance. But keep on believing Interbane.
It's rather tiresome to be constantly fed theories about origins supposedly science based complete with Computer generated graphics as if they were actually there and saw all this.
Those who actually question this stuff for the most part are creationists and even if you disagree I think they make many valid objections to these theories which are passed off as scientific facts.
http://www.crev.info/2016/12/cassini-saturn-youth/