Hello everyone,

I'm sorry but I feel compelled to write...

>Finally, I would suggest to creationist Tweets that we stick to the TOPIC
>of our group, maybe the one thing we have in common and on which we can
>agree -- that birding is a worthwhile past-time!

Oh Please! Let's be fair here. It was the "evolutionist" tweets (now that
we're labeling everyone based on email!) that brought up the subject and
invited discussion. Now we are told that only discussion that does not
dispute the claims of dinosaurs to birds is valid. Typical.

Come on people, we will never resolve the origin of birds or anything else
for that matter on TWEETERS! The study of origins is AT BEST a POST HOC
application of hypotheses to a LIMITED DATA SET! In the end it will always
boil down to WHAT YOU BELIEVE! The FACT that most scientists ACCEPT
evolution as fact does not MAKE IT FACT. This distinction is lost on the
masses and very often even on the scientists themselves. They BELIEVE it
based on how they interpret the data (you see the problem here?). You can
draw cladistic trees all day - all that does is organize the available data
(to quote a former statistics professor of mine, "statistics can't prove
anything"). I am not trying to insult these scientists or belittle their
efforts - but you can only do so much when you are trying to piece together
the past. We have to realize the limitations of the work. We will never
be able to PROVE anyone's theory on the origin of life. You can only
examine the available evidence - What do you BELIEVE? (please don't answer,
it is a rhetorical question!)

Bonnie Stout
Burnaby, BC
bestout at sfu.ca