[Liberal Classic]

What if there were bears in the Permian? Would such a find generate any doubt about Darwinian evolution itself in those predisposed to believe it? In other words, I just think that promises to abandon belief in Darwinian evolution itself based on a find like a mammal in the Permian are overstated.

This is where you're wrong. The skeleton of a modern human in one million year old strata. The skull of a modern mammal in one-hundred million year old strata. The distinctinve spores of a flowering plant in two-million year old strata. Two biologically similar animals with vastly different genomes. Any one of these things would *disprove* evolutionary theory, and scientists would have no choice but to go back to the drawing board.

However, scientists have not yet made such a discovery. All previous studies and fossil finds have supported the theory.

The popular consensus among certain groups of people seems to be there is a conspiricy to hide such discoveries, but, as Ben Franklin said, three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The popular consensus among certain groups of people seems to be there is a conspiricy to hide such discoveries, but, as Ben Franklin said, three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Which may explain the accusation (on another thread) that evolutionists engage in genocide.

[Diamond]

This is where you're wrong. The skeleton of a modern human in one million year old strata.

That, by your defintion would be impossible, and so inevitably such a skeleton would simply be defined either as non-modern, or not found in one million year-old strata. Such as: or or

Make no mistake about it,... They are like modern human footprints. If one were left in the sand of a California beach today, and a four-year old were asked what it was, he would instantly say that somebody had walked there. He wouldn't be able to tell it from a hundred other prints on the beach, nor would you.
Tim White

The distinctinve spores of a flowering plant in two-million year old strata.

What? I think even evolutionary theory posits flowering plants in existence long before 2 millions years ago.

Cordially,