Is the Fossil Record an Indication of Evolution (from Sonic)

Sonic started this topic, but I believe the quotes are making the topic unanswerable. Since the great antlered one isn't on right now to fix the problem and others want to post to the topic, I am copying Sonic's message here. I will close the other topic for now and maybe Moose can fix it later.

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My opinion is that the fossil record does not indicate evolution because I dont think that their is enough intermediate or transitional fossils to be evidence of "TOE"
I think the math would be summed to if we had 1% of the entire fossil record recorded as transitional or intermediates skeletions that would be enough to say that the fossil record indicated "toe"Thank You
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It seems there are a couple of issues to discuss:1)Is there any evidence indicative of the validaty of the ToE. Specifically is there data to support the transitions between taxa higher than the species level (or is that genera that you want? )2)Is there enough data?I think we have agreed that there is some data. But I'm not sure about that. What have we agreed to?As for the enough, I would have to ask how you arrive at the 1%.I think you are saying that 1% of all fossils found should be a transitional (I'm not at all sure that we agree on what a transitional is though). That suggests that 1% of all individual organisms should be a transitional assuming that individuals get fossilized and found at random.Do you think that, if you look around, 1% of all things are a 'transitional'?

I re-opened the Sonic version of this topic, and did a test post. Seems to be working fine now.Will close this topic - Go to the other one.Nosy gets his message total padded by 1, no extra charge.Adminnemooseus------------------
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