[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Your quote mining from the article, suggesting that the lack of fossils in the late 1850s is a problem for evolution today, is a little out of date.

No. It suggests that "Darwin's theory of evolution" as a grand continuum of micro changes over vast time scales is false.

Here is a quiz for you. What major hominid fossils were known, say in 1859, when Darwin's work was published?

err...the giant dung eating monkey man of up state New York and his buddies?

Can you give me an even approximate estimate?

4224.75 is the exact number.

[Coyoteman]

When Darwin published in 1859 there was about one fossil hominid site known, the original Neanderthal site in Germany.

His rhetorical questions prior to any real hominid finds do not accurately reflect the abundance of the fossils we have now, nor do they negate his theory.

[balrog666]

err...the giant dung eating monkey man of up state New York and his buddies?

You and your buddies were around in 1859?

Wow, you never know what will turn up on FR!?