[CarolinaGuitarman]

"All of your fervent wishing does not elevate ToE beyond it's present fairly controversial state either. If it were not controversial then this article would have far fewer replies."

There is no scientific controversy. The only controversy is among certain religious groups.

"Sexual reproduction is within species boundaries. If a creature 'evolves' across the species boundary is it supposed to randomly happen in male/female pairs or does ToE fall short in this explanation too?"

Speciation happens to populations, slowly, not to individuals all at once. Your conception is more in the lines of the X-Men than anything that actual scientists say.

"Any strong scientific theory needs far fewer amendments than those that ToE has historically shown. "

Nonsense. Most scientific theories have many amendments as new info comes along. Evolution has had no more than most.

"68 MYO soft tissue!!! - Just another anomaly here folks - nothing to see - move along."

Yeah, a few mm of *soft* tissue. The only thing this *changes* is the understanding of how the insides of bones fossilize under special conditions. The fossils were never dated by cracking them open and seeing how it looked inside anyway.

You're grasping at straws, and coming up empty every time.

[2nsdammit]

What CarolinaGuitarman said... Before I got back!

YEC/IDers are constantly trying to imply that the basic theory of evolution is somehow in controversy, or even in "crisis". It just isn't so, no matter how much it's wished for.

It reminds me of the media continuing to posit that our current administration is somehow on the ropes.....