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To: Non-Sequitur
I skimmed through a lot of your link, however, I focused on the "Why Are There Gaps" part....

"Note that fossils separated by more than about a hundred thousand years cannot show anything about how a species arose. Think about it: there could have been a smooth transition, or the species could have appeared suddenly, but either way, if there aren't enough fossils, we can't tell which way it happened."

Your link speaks a lot of "we found a foot, we found a fin, we found a vertebrae. Perhaps I missed it, but could you please point me to the part where they have actually found an almost complete "transitional" fossil?

From what I have read in the "Gap" explanation, and what I have skimmed through, there are more questions than answers.

Also, how do they explain the "or the species could have appeared suddenly".

73 posted on 10/11/2009 8:08:40 AM PDT by NoGrayZone (Where's The Birth Certificate)
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To: NoGrayZone
I skimmed through a lot of your link, however, I focused on the "Why Are There Gaps" part....

Let's back off from the gaps for a moment and return to your claim that every bit of evidence found to date shows Darwin to be wrong. While I will be the first to agree with scientists that the evolutionary record is not complete, I would also agree with them that there is a great deal of evidence supporting the concept of transition between some species over millions of years. Why would you call them wrong? How does everything listed on that site refute Darwin?

Gaps can be explained by the sheer improbability of a given species being fossilized. Take a walk through the woods some time and list the remains of animals you find. How many deer skeletons do you see? How many bear or beaver or squirrel or bird skeletons do you find? Not many would be my guess. Is it because the the number of animals who die in the woods is remarkably small? Or would a more reasonable explanation for the lack of whole skeletons be the fact that scavengers tend to scatter the remains all over the place? Why should it have been any different millions of years ago? Fossils are rare because the process needed to fossilize them was specific and virtually all that died back then did so under conditions that did not lend themselves to fossilization. Add to that the fact that we're talking of a period of millions of years and gaps are not surprising. But science continues to look and find the answers. Unlike creationists they haven't stopped their search.

81 posted on 10/11/2009 9:49:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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