obviously you have reasons why there are gaps in the fossil record, but you would think there would be a little moe evidence.
First of all, most of the really, really
good evidence for evolution has nothing to do with fossils. For example, my favorite piece of evidence for evolution is
the nested hierarchical classification of the species. Not only does common descent predict the nested hierarchy, it would be refuted if there were no nested hierarchical pattern to the species. Meanwhile, there is no other mechanism, natural or artificial, that would produce such a pattern.
Now coming back to the fossils: the fossils themselves are good evidence for evolution. Not only are there some pretty good complete sequences showing the evolution of one taxon from another (like
nonhuman ape to human), but there are examples like
Tiktaalik which was predicted to exist by scientists based on the theory of evolution. Such a creature need not have existed, yet, based on evolutionary theory, scientists were able to predict that it did exist and predicted where they should look for the fossils -- and sure enough, it turned out that they did exist exactly where the scientists thought it would.
Theory -> prediction -> confirmation -- this is what "evidence" means in the context of science.
Speaking personally, I find few things more awesome than contemplating this vast and majestic process of evolution, the ebb and flow of successive biotas through geological time. Creationists and others who cannot for ideological or religious reasons accept the fact of evolution miss out a great deal, and are left with a claustrophobic little universe in which nothing happens and nothing changes.
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M. Alan Kazlev
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