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Author Topic:   Transitional Fossils Show Evolution in Process
Briterican
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Message 6 of 158 (542504)
01-10-2010 11:29 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by RAZD
01-10-2010 10:54 AM


Re: On the Absence of Fossils
Hi RAZD
Very nice presentation refuting this ridiculous claim (amongst others):
If the theory of evolution was true, we would be up to our necks in transitional fossils, each tiny darwinian step lovingly catalogued in the strata.
This claim ignores the rarity of conditions that allow fossilization to occur. It also ignores micropaleontology, the study of microscopic fossils. Finally, it does nothing to explain the fossils we do find, seeming to take an "all-or-nothing" attitude towards this evidence that would have needed to survive for billions of years.
In my opinion, the absence of fossils is one of the weakest of creationists' arguments, easily refuted as demonstrated by your comments above.
Thanks for the thread RAZD.
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Briterican
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Message 12 of 158 (542767)
01-12-2010 1:33 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by sailorstide
01-12-2010 5:24 AM


Re: On the Absence of Fossils
Hi sailorstride
sailorstride writes:
I think that both evolutionary and creational theories are just that theories and that when one realizes that both are factually the same thus being theories we can all rest from our own convictions of acceptance.
Gravity is a theory, but I doubt you'd be willing to test its validity by stepping off a sheer cliff top. You accept it because evidence demonstrates it to be accurate. Evidence can also be used to demonstrate evolutionary theory. No such evidence exists for "creational theories", and I challenge you to present some if you disagree.
(Now, after having posted, I'll read the other replies. Next time I'll try to do that first.)
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Edited by Briterican, : No reason to be nasty.

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