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Author Topic:   there are no true transitional forms yet I think there is evolution
nator
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Message 31 of 34 (39595)
05-10-2003 8:55 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by DC85
05-08-2003 7:08 PM


Maybe you could define for us what a transitional form would look like? What is your definition?

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DC85
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Message 32 of 34 (40031)
05-14-2003 1:16 AM


I found this site having another interesting piont
science - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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Sure there are. Archaeopteryx is the most famous example. Creationists constantly argue that a particular fossil is not a transitional form because of X, Y and Z. I am forced to wonder, what then would a transitional form look like? That is, what features would a fossil have to have in order for a creationist to believe that is it transitional? There are many transitional fossils, including the ape-human transitional form, Australopithecus. Eusthenopteron shows marvelous intermediate characteristics between the lobe-finned fishes and the amphibians. The transitional fossils between amphibians and reptiles are so various and so intermediate that it is difficult to define where one group ends and the other begins. Archaeopteryx is clearly intermediate between reptiles and birds. In spite of such reptilian affinities as a long bony tail, toothed jaws, and clawed wings, creationists decare that because Archaeopteryx had feathers, it was a bird, not a transitional stage between reptiles and birds. Having no explanations of their own, the creationists attempt to deny the transitional fossils out of existence.

  
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Message 33 of 34 (40108)
05-14-2003 4:42 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by some_guy
05-08-2003 4:20 PM


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I don't understand how you can say that creationist are wrong when we say there are no transitional fossils. If you look at it from our prespective and assume what we believe to be true then there is none.
"If you work from the assumption that we're right, then you'll see that we're right?"
Wow.
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DC85
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Message 34 of 34 (40168)
05-14-2003 11:20 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by Dan Carroll
05-14-2003 4:42 PM


I like that LOL but still I truly don't like to say someone is wrong directly......... I try to make them see my side

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