Eledhan writes:
It is impossible for ANY fossil to count for evidence of evolution. Why? Because scientists, historians, or anybody for that matter, cannot prove that those fossils had ANY kids,...
If you insist on this then rational discussion with you won't be possible.
...let alone kids who were different than their parents...I saw a Uniformitarianism thread earlier and I would just like to bring up that if we don't see these transitions now, even to a very small degree...
Assuming we're not talking about asexual reproduction, all kids are different from their parents. The changes are to a very small degree, but they accumulate through successive generations.
And I also cannot believe that the link posted showing the reptile-to-bird transitions actually included Archaeopterix (sp?). That was proven false years ago!!!
Some years ago there was an unsuccessful effort by Fred Hoyle to prove the archaeopteryx fossil at the British Museum a fraud. To date there is no indication that the known archaeopteryx fossils are anything but authentic.
That was proven false years ago!!! Some Chinese farmer dug up a fossil and glued a piece onto it and sold it to National Geographic for thousands of dollars!!! National Geographic was so excited about the possibility of finding a rare transitional form (which should not be rare if evolution is true) that they bought into a fake. They had to report it was a fake in a later article stating that they had been duped. How do we know that if Archaeopterix is the only one that people have lied to the public about?
That a Chinese farmer was able to commit fraud on National Geographic proves what, exactly? If you plan to argue that any transitional fossils presented in this thread are frauds then I suggest you start another thread. Let's keep this one free of conspiracy theories.
--Percy
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