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>>8994063
>Can you explain your 'IDiot Bingo' if you're so smart?
I can indeed! For I am a paleofag!

>If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
We did not evolve from modern monkeys, but rather from a common ancestor of monkeys. And speciation proceeds not only through anagenesis (one species becomes another species) but also through cladogenesis (one species becomes multiple species, splitting into two divergent populations)
>Conflates evolution and abiogenesis.
Evolution is life changing over time. Abiogenesis is life emerging from non-living material. They operate by entirely different mechanisms, and it is not necessary to know the details of one to understand the other.
>Famous Scientist X was a creationist.
Yes, and Famous Scientist X was wrong, having been born into a world ignorant of how evolution works. Just because someone was a genius in one respect doesn't mean they were right about everything; Einstein was an insanely gifted physicist, but he was flat wrong about the cosmological constant.
>Clains [sic] junk DNA isn't really junk.
Noncoding DNA generally has no role; occasionally, it can make individuals more susceptible to certain kinds of mutations. By and large, though, it's useless, the detritus of eons of splicing and alteration.
>Claims carbon dating is used to date anything older than 62,000 years.
Creationists frequently conflate radiometric dating with 14C dating. 14C dating, due to its half-life of 5,730 years, is never used to date anything older than ~10 half-lifes due to limits of detection, and people who claim it is are ignorant.

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>milk
you know what it's a good source of?

>>8000240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgFtxHhCQ0