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To: Sawdring

This is why there is a problem wirth evolution. They want everything to evolve from the “lowest llife forms”. Oncde again, where are the transitional fossils? Like half whale and half whatever? Always missing something.


10 posted on 03/28/2014 6:39:59 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Busko

I always think it is better to say it was magic than to try to understand the place the fossil record plays in history.


11 posted on 03/28/2014 9:03:25 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Busko; Sawdring
Busko: "Oncde again, where are the transitional fossils?
Like half whale and half whatever?
Always missing something."

Anti-evolutionists claim of "no transitional fossils" is itself an intellectual slight-of-hand, intended to obscure the indisputable fact that every individual is a "transitional" form between its parents and descendants.
That's because no individual is ever exactly the same as its parents -- and not only because of the mixing of genes, but also because every generation adds a very small number of mutations to its 3-billion+ instructions DNA code.

Most of those small mutations have no effect, or are harmful, but a very few can give the individual a better chance to survive & reproduce.
Hence: evolution.

Therefore, every fossil is in some sense a "transitional form" between its ancestors and descendants.
Indeed, any knowledgeable paleontologist can look at any fossil and point out various features which are "transitional" between fossils which came before, and others which came later.

Human:

Whale:

Bird:

Horse:

12 posted on 03/29/2014 6:38:10 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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