I was told that Darwin had a belief in God just before his death. I think if he were alive today he would be open minded enough to admit that his theory falls apart simply on the lack of true transitional fossils which he said were needed to be discovered for his theory to hold water. And he didn't mean fossils of completed life forms but ones that would show the gradual change over millions of years. It would be nice if the TOE proponents would at least admit that truth.
You were lied to.
If they were to admit that obvious truth then the house of cards is 52 pick-up. They can never let that happen because then it is not "SCIENCE"!!!
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The only source for this allegation was an evangelist who called herself "Lady Hope". One doesn't have to be a cynic to think she made this false claim in order to increase her draw (and, just incidentally, her income).
Darwin's family, who was present during his last illness and death, denied the story.
I think if he were alive today he would be open minded enough to admit that his theory falls apart simply on the lack of true transitional fossils which he said were needed to be discovered for his theory to hold water.
This is doubly false: 1) there are many more fossils known now than there were in his day, some of them forming detailed transitional series: examples are the reptile-to-mammal series (see post 513 above), the terrestial artiodactyl-to-whale, hyracotherium (aka eohippus)-to-modern horse, austrelopithcine-to-people (see CoyoteMan's post 238 above), therpod dinosaur-to-bird, and the recent discovery of Tiktaalik (fish-to-amphibian intermediate)
2) the second way it is false is that even if no more fossils had been found since 1859, modern genetic sequencing would have revived the theory, rather than simply confirming it.
And he didn't mean fossils of completed life forms but ones that would show the gradual change over millions of years.
Please explain what you mean here. Use the reptile-mammal series as an example
It would be nice if the TOE proponents would at least admit that truth.
Assuming it is truth.
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