Romashka comments on You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Romashka 07 December 2014 03:25:10PM 0 points [-]

A decent paleontologist doesn't need a creationist to ask this question. It's the second thing that you think of after 'wow, whose bone is that? Maybe someone's between A and B'. And if you can actually put forward a theory, however weird, of why there're two gaps, then you advance science. On the other hand, some questions (like the origin(s) of flowers) are so popular that more fundamental ones don't attract due attention( llike, what the heck did MIKC-type MADS genes regulate in plants in the 100 million years before flowers appeared?) And a smart creationist would ask you that. And it's not even evidence that you can't obtain.