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Originally posted by Fred Williams:
The Creation model, on the other hand, would be falsified by a Darwinian gradualistic fossil record. Clear-cut lineages showing large-scale evolution would falsify creation.
Considering the fact that the creationism myth posits all extant diversity to have originated within the few thousand years since the mythological flood, WHERE ARE THE CLEAR-CUT LINEAGES SHOWING ALL OF THIS VARIATION?
It seems to me that it would be far easier for the creationist to produice fossil evidence for their version of reality that the evolutionist, considering the fact that time wreaks havoc on all evidence.
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But honest scientists know this has not happened:
One hundred and twenty years of paleontological research later, it has become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin’s predictions [gradualism]. Nor is the problem a miserably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction is wrong. — Eldredge & Tattersall, The Myths of Human Evolution, 1982, p45-46
Funny - it appears that this quote is form a book on human evolution, not evolution in general. It is also 10 years old. Tell us Fred - what creationist quote-mining source did you get that from? It is highly doubtful that you read it yourself, just as was the case with the Kimura papers and such that you simply lifted quotes from ReMine's book ( a book that I have shown is less than forthcoming on its quoting and referencing).
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The Cambrian explosion denoting the almost simultaneous emergence of nearly all the extant phyla of the Kingdom Animalia within the time span of 6-10 million years can’t possibly be explained by mutational divergence of individual gene functions. - Susumo Ohno, The notion of the Cambrian pananimalia genome, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: Vol 93, No 16, 8475-78, August 6, 1996.
I guess Williams the paleontologist has never heard of the Precambrian period.
Or much else, by the looks of it...
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