[whattajoke]

RE: fossils on different continents.

Your acceptance of their existence begs a better question: Why do they exist at all?

Fossils do not form easily. They are exceedingly rare, and often incomplete. Ocean dwelling fish swim. populations move, land and ice bridges form and disappear. So of course fossils from closely related species appear around the earth. So what?

At any rate, once a population got to a geographically isolated area, it then started its own branch on the evolutionary tree.

[f.Christian]

Mary poppins -- hairy potter science -- popes too !