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To: CarolinaGuitarman
"In several animal and plant groups, enough fossils are known to bridge the wide gaps between existing types"

That's what I'm looking for, yet for some reason, there isn't one photo of them. Nor information of where these can be viewed. All we have is a "theory" Plus, another statement in which he says "there aren't any because". I want visible evidence, not theory and excuses.

Too much to ask for I guess. So, until I find actual PROOF, I will maintain There is no fossil record showing transitional evolution of ANY species. Which is exactly were I was 3 days ago when I posted, "there is no fossil record of transitional evolution".

262 posted on 10/03/2005 2:30:20 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

Are you ignoring post 256 on purpose?


264 posted on 10/03/2005 2:34:33 PM PDT by shuckmaster (Bring back SeaLion and ModernMan!)
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To: Nathan Zachary
" That's what I'm looking for, yet for some reason, there isn't one photo of them."

You've been given copious links to transitional fossils, with pictures and explanations.

"So, until I find actual PROOF, I will maintain There is no fossil record showing transitional evolution of ANY species."

You have also had it explained to you why science doesn't deal in proof, only certain mathematical theorems and whiskey.

Your posts remind me of a skit on SNL, with Tom Hanks as the Short-Term Memory Loss guy. After he was introduced to Tony Randall, he would turn around and then turn back as say, *Hey, it's Tony Randall!* This happened repeatedly to the bemusement of Tony Randall.

Now if it had been Randall Niles on SNL, THAT would have been too much of a coincidence.
276 posted on 10/03/2005 3:09:00 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Nathan Zachary
That's what I'm looking for, yet for some reason, there isn't one photo of them.

Lie #1.

Nor information of where these can be viewed.

Ever hear of one of those "library" things?

All we have is a "theory"

Lie #2. We have vast *mountains* of evidence, along multiple independent cross-confirming lines.

Plus, another statement in which he says "there aren't any because".

Lie #3.

I want visible evidence, not theory and excuses.

Complete this sentence: "There are none so blind..."

Whenever you are shown tastes of the evidence, and pointed towards sources where you can find enough evidence to keep you busy for more than a lifetime, you hand-wave it away with "that's not PROOF, I want PROOF"... Just admit it -- you don't *want* to see the evidence, and you're making excuse after excuse as to why you won't consider any of it.

Too much to ask for I guess.

Yes, it *is* too much to ask for that you might open your eyes and go learn something for a change, instead of refusing to look, refusing to think, refusing to accept even the most obvious fact if it might contradict your cherished preconceptions.

So, until I find actual PROOF,

Science does not deal in "PROOF", nor does any other method of examining the real world. "PROOF" only exists in entirely self-contained artificial realms like mathematics. If it's "PROOF" you insist upon, you're setting the bar impossibly high for anything/everything (except that which you *want* to believe, which you certainly don't have "PROOF" of either), which I suspect you're doing on purpose in order to have a cheap excuse to reject anything you don't want to think about.

I will maintain There is no fossil record showing transitional evolution of ANY species.

That's because you're grossly ignorant of the evidence yourself *and* refuse to accept the conclusions of those who have spent entire careers examining the evidence, and the reason for *that* is because you refuse to look at it, knowing that it challenges your preferred beliefs.

Which is exactly were I was 3 days ago when I posted, "there is no fossil record of transitional evolution".

Yes, we're quite familiar with your transparently false beliefs, which are protected by your blinders, your Morton's Demon. It's the same refusal to objectively look at the evidence that is present in most anti-evolution creationists.

If you think that your foot-stomping refusal to look and learn is convincing anyone of the validity of your side, you're very mistaken. Quite the contrary, in fact. Nor are you helping the conservative cause by providing a perfect example of the sort of behavior that makes too many people think that all conservatives must be equally as close-minded and afraid of knowledge.


384 posted on 10/04/2005 2:14:27 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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