[js1138]

The “sudden jumps” you have in mind involve millions of years or hundreds of thousands of generations. The varity of morphology seen in dogs bred over the last thousand years is greater than the “gaps” in the fossil record for most lineages.

[Rippin]

The “sudden jumps” you have in mind involve millions of years or hundreds of thousands of generations. The varity of morphology seen in dogs bred over the last thousand years is greater than the “gaps” in the fossil record for most lineages.

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I’m explaining to a creationist why the creationist opposition to common descent may need to be abandoned regardless of how quickly the ‘jumps’ appear in the fossil record. And noting that this type of scientific discovery provides challenges for the creationist position.