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Thanks very much for your post #268...those figures are quite startling...I knew that Elpassers wishes for such an evolutionary ladder were unrealistic, I did not actually realize that they were quite impossible, given these statistics...

What's more, it seems to be a popular misconception among creationists that the fossil record is the only body of eividence supporting evolutionary theory, when in reality, it's but a fraction of the testable evidence (though it is the most sensational - the media loves a good fossil find).

I very highly recommend Carl Zimmer's book Evolution:The Triumph of an Idea - very enjoyable reading (even though it's a few years old now (2001) and doesn't include some of the most recent discoveries in the field), accessible to a layperson, and very widely comprehensive (with lots of good color pics to boot!). I'm willing to bet with your curiosity about the subject you'd really enjoy the reading.