go to your local university library, and find
this book. i'll even give you the call number, it's probably qe841.c254 (1988)
it's just a suggestion, a good place to start. if the library follows the library of congress system, it'll be in the qe section with a ton of other books of vertebrate paleontology.
suggest anyone making the argument that the fossil record does not plainly show evolution, or that transitional species are missing, do the same. until you do, you're just being willfully ignorant. they don't exist because you haven't seen them on tv, and the internet doesn't present a very good case with them all in the same place and lined up in a row.
i should mentioned that this book is 700 pages, and barely scratches the surface. but it's an adequate length to give you an impression of the amount of data there is, and how it relates to the whole. it's not a popularist book, like goulds, and it's not trying to sell the idea -- it's a collection of fossils. but if you want to look at some of the actual data, scoot over a few shelves to the journals (qh?).
go do some research. read several books like these. take some classes in geology and biology and paleontology. and then come back and pretend like you know a little something about the field.
This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 10-20-2005 03:09 AM
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