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Author Topic:   The TOE is supported by the Fossil Record
Dr Adequate
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Message 7 of 17 (473824)
07-03-2008 4:43 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by randman
07-02-2008 6:13 PM


Re: be specific
On the question of the fossil record, you claim the TOE is supported by the Fossil Record. Ok, as a challenge, please show a sequence of, say, 10 speciation events or more leading to the origin of higher taxa in the fossil record.
This barely means anything. "A sequence of 10 speciation events leading to the origin of higher taxa"?
However, if you were writing meaningful English, you'd probably be asking for, let us say, the fish-tetrapod progression represented by Eustheonpteron, Panderichthis, Elpistostega, Tiktaalik, Elginerpeton, Densignathus, Ventastega, Metaxygnathus, Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Whatcheeria, Pederpes, Greerepton, Crassigyrinus, Baphetes, Balnerpeton, Dendrepton, Silvanerpeton, Proteogryrinus, and Eoherpeton. Feel free to look 'em up. Don't even get me started on reptile-mammal intermediates or we'll be here all night, but you could start here if you were actually remotely interested, which you aren't.
In return, would you like to show me all the scientific evidence that God was outwitted by a talking snake? Cheers.
Let's say it would take, for example, an estimated 5000 forms to evolve a land mammal to a whale and that includes branches that died out, and we have, say, 8 potential forms in the fossil record......That indicates a very low likelihood of fossilization.
Problem is we have thousands of some of those forms.
If you have thousands of land mammal-whale intermediates, would you mind lending a few of them to paleontologists?
If, on the other hand, you're talking complete rubbish, would you like to stop?

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Message 8 of 17 (473825)
07-03-2008 4:48 AM
Reply to: Message 6 by bluegenes
07-03-2008 2:25 AM


Re: No out of place fossils
A future fossil hunter digging up fossils from our own times finds a thousand wildebeest fossils, but no giant pandas. Why?
Because pandas are an evil lie put about by God-hating atheists like PZ Myers.

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