I wasn't looking to get into serious debate about this but had a question about Evolution. I hope the 'Coffee Shop' is the appropriate place to pose it.
A I understand it, ToE says we evolved from lesser animals. The basic mechanisms are 'genetic mutation' which provide diverse 'options' and 'survival of the fittest' which culls the less suitable options to leave one or a few successful options which survive to propagate the successful genes. Repeat for millions years to get the diversity we have today.
From what I gather, folk who say evolution didn't happen point to the lack of definitive 'transistional' or 'link fossils' in amongst the millions of fossils already found. The argument seems to be that many fossils should display obvious signs of developing into something else whereas most seem to be perfectly formed for the task at hand.'Archeaopteryx' is posed as an example of the 'link' between reptile and bird, but it's very rarity as a 'find' and the fact it is much-debated seems to illustrate the apparent problem, ie: such 'demonstrable' links seem to be a relative rarity whereas we could expect there to be many of them.
Flight of any description would have been a major boon and presumably such a creature would have done very well. Is there a flush of fossils indicating this boon and if not, why not.
Generally speaking, has there been a rarity of obvious link-fossils with a tentitive but workable toe in it's history or future (it would seem 'sensible' to hang on to your former function until the new advantageous function was in some way operational ). If so, why is that?
This message has been edited by iano, 09-Aug-2005 12:22 PM
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