You mean that I missed the fossil evidence of species X, Y, and Z that gradually led up to the duck-billed platipus (the only poisonous mammal in all of time)?! Did I miss ten or twenty transitional species that led up to the first bird?
Come on, there are these and other examples of big new design releases.
"ID doesn't say the designer has to mimic evolution, but He always does. ID doesn't say why." - VadeRetro
Specifically how does Intelligent Design mimic Evolutionary Theory in regards to the formation of the duck-billed platipus? Please explain.
Ah, the Gap Game! And if we start discovering fossils to fill the platypus gap (as has happened in recent decades with the once-touted whale gap and the bird gap), then you go to the bat gap or whatever else is left.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Especially when we have a lot of examples now of the general principle (and we've filled a lot of gaps already).
Lawyering games make nice debate tactics but they aren't science. Your delusional system is bullet-proof. There's nothing it can't handle, which means that it actually isn't making any predictions or telling us anything.
I once mentioned to gore3000 that we think we know approximately when and in what lineage the mammalian ear bones arose. We can see them forming gradually in the fossil record. If we found a modern lizard species or an ancient salamander with bones exactly like mammalian ear bones, that would be a serious problem for what we think we know about the evolution of mammals. It would probably be put down to spectacularly convergent evolution, but it would be a serious anomaly.
ID would of course trumpet the same thing as proof of itself. But what would ever disprove ID?
I haven't tried to count the fossil bird series. Your pamphlets may be out of date. You'd better raise to bar to one hundred.
Creation Science is too easy to be useful.