[Bryan24]

If you had an infinite amount of money for travel expenses, and started now, and spent the entire rest of your life, you could probably travel from university to university, museum to museum, to look at every transitional fossil, and you'd be lucky to see 10% of them before you died.

So if a person can only see 10% of the evidence, how can they be sure that the other 90% doesn't contradict the 10%? If you think about your statement for a moment, you'll realize that you're making the data fit the theory, not proving the theory from the data.

[Ichneumon]

[If you had an infinite amount of money for travel expenses, and started now, and spent the entire rest of your life, you could probably travel from university to university, museum to museum, to look at every transitional fossil, and you'd be lucky to see 10% of them before you died.]

So if a person can only see 10% of the evidence, how can they be sure that the other 90% doesn't contradict the 10%?

Because even though no one person could see all the evidence in one lifetime, other people *have* examined that evidence and verified that there's no contradiction.

If you think about your statement for a moment, you'll realize that you're making the data fit the theory, not proving the theory from the data.

Actually, if *you'll* "think about his statement for a moment", you'll realize that you're missing the point.