Actually no. This is the problem with natural selection being the agent of diversity: natural selection is a killer. All it does is kill mistakes, it destroys variety, it destroys genes, traits, etc. It does not creat any. In other words it is more like the grim reaper than a creator. Which brings me to another point about evolution. Evolutionists seem to be the only people that assert (and with a straight face!) that 4 - 2 = 6. They are the only people that say (more than that, they insist) that you can add to something by taking away things from it.
as well as the fossil record of life in prior eras.
Aah, the fossil record! What a marvelous thing! The first human descendant not so long ago was a face which was more plaster than bone. The first primate nowadays is two ankle bones and a lower jaw discovered decades before a thousand miles away. The first mammal is again a lower jaw and some crushed bones conveniently plastered together. This is some fantastic proof! Of course they cannot tell us if any of these 'proofs' had the same DNA as others in their supposed 'evolutionary tree' because of course DNA does not survive that long. They cannot tell us what their brains were like either, whether they were cold blooded or warm blooded, what they ate, how they behaved, whether they were smart or dumb, whether they had mammary glands, whether they could talk or any of the numerous very important things which could show descent. The fossil record is therefore nothing more than fairy tales for atheists.
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