And so you admit that the fossil record is not, in principle, complete, "exhaustive?" That what is there is pretty much the result of a crap shoot? That it's sketchy at best?
Well jeepers, that's a fine admission from somebody who's committed to a theory that depends on the fossil record for its justification. Jeepers, even Darwin knew that evolution theory stands or falls on the fossil record!
Drawing a blank?
Only if you are completely ignorant of the support that all of the above lend to the theory could you state that the theory “stands or falls on the fossil record” alone.
Moreover, in as much as the fossil record is a “crap shoot” it paints a very compelling picture of land animals arising from amphibians, mammals arising with traits that previously were only in reptiles, etc etc.
The fossil record need not be “exhaustive” or perfect in order for it to be a treasure trove of data that supports the theory of evolution through natural selection of genetic variation.
Also, the fossil record cannot tell you anything about HOW evolution happened, but it sure does show you that the species that inhabit the Earth have not always been the same from the beginning, and that 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct.
You’ll never get an answer for that either. Evo-cultists want us to believe that the fossil record will one day turn up all the “missing links”, but it is painfully obvious that the record is so spotty and that by far most organisms that have ever lived have never been fossilized. There is no way the so called fossil record will ever record what Darwin prophesied. If the record isn’t absolutely complete and exhaustive, it logically follows that Darwin’s claims fall to dust.
Truly, the fossil record is quantized. Few creatures actually left a fossil for us to examine.
And indeed, the "tree of life" is a theoretical continuum which stands or falls based on those quantizations.
If scientists were to discover the fossil of a modern man in the same place as a fossil of a T-Rex, the tree would fall.
Actually Darwin based his theory on living organisms.
Since then the fossil record has developed into supporting evidence.
However, the example of finding dinosaur fossils mixed with human fossils of the same age would pretty much doom modern thinking about evolution.
Well jeepers, that's a fine admission from somebody who's committed to a theory that depends on the fossil record for its justification.
Details, details.....
Don't confuse them with the facts.