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where was the transition within fossil record?? [Stalled: randman]

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09-20-2005 1:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 30 by Eledhan
09-20-2005 1:42 PM

Which is fine, until someone tries to guess that God started it all, and then all of a sudden, it's not okay anymore.
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But no one says God didn't start it all. That has nothing to do with evolution anyway.
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10-18-2005 2:40 PM 		Reply to: Message 65 by NosyNed
10-18-2005 2:20 PM

Re: Predictions
Your analogy fails in that it isn't one or two bullets but 100,000's of samples.
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IIRC, The Paleontological Research Institution in NY has over 2 million fossils and shells just in it's own collection. I seem to remember that there were six or more institutions in just the US that also had collections as large or larger. It appears we're not talking about hundreds of thousands of examples, but rather tens or hundreds of millions of fossils that are in collections today. And new examples of both fossils and new current species are being discovered daily.
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10-23-2005 6:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 219 by Yaro
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Re: More species misconceptions
If the spectrum claim is true would it also not depend on where we are in terms of distance from the last common ancestor?
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10-23-2005 6:27 PM 		Reply to: Message 221 by Yaro
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Re: More species misconceptions
So is there is any reason within the spectrum analogy to expect that a species would be able to breed with it's closest related species?
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10-23-2005 9:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 227 by randman
10-23-2005 7:28 PM

Re: More species misconceptions
jar, if the spectrum claim is true, there would ALWAYS BE close ancestors we can interbreed successfully with, which is probably why Yaro claims we can breed suceessfully with chimps.
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Of course there is, with every single such species. In fact it's still the same species until the change is so great that breeding is no longer possible.
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Your theory, or actually not theories but simply imaginations, have never been more than flights of fantasy.
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