1. Should sufficient evidence accrue to challenge any
scientific discipline's theories it will be takne note
of ... and has in the past. If it hadn't I guess we would
still be worried about sailing off the horizon.
2. There is no lack of transitional fossils, the denial comes
more from the creationist camp, where the defintion of what
would be acceptable as a transitional keeps changing every time
an example is cited.
3. Evolution does not drive organisms to higher orders.
4. Natural selection working on heritable variation has been seen
to cause phenotypic change in species over time. There is some evidence to suggest that such change can be quite dramatic if
continued for long enough. There is not evidence to suggest that
such change cannot be wrought ... only opinion that it seems
unlikely.
5. The origins of life and matter are separate issues. One does
not study the works of shakespeare AND the origin of language as
one topic. We are human, we compartmentalise the natural world
in order for our meagre brains to be able to cope with its
immensity.
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