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To: The Blitherer
http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/fossil-record.htm

The third sentence -- not including the out-of-context quotes from Charles Darwin -- is "Nearly 150 years later, there has been no evidence of evolutionary transition found thus far in the fossil record." This statement is demonstratably false. An essay that opens with such an obviously false claim is clearly either not well researched or not written with honest intent.
128 posted on 09/18/2006 4:00:56 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio

The website you directed to states:

"Usually there are still gaps between each of the groups -- few or none of the speciation events are preserved."

Thre are changes within species, microevolution, as any dog or horse breeder can tell you, but we still seem to be missing credible transitional form info except for those who choose to believe in evolution.


132 posted on 09/18/2006 4:05:47 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: Dimensio
The third sentence -- not including the out-of-context quotes from Charles Darwin -- is "Nearly 150 years later, there has been no evidence of evolutionary transition found thus far in the fossil record." This statement is demonstratably false.

You are correct. Here is a nice transitional (I hope posting data in the Religion Forum is OK). Note its position in the chart which follows (hint--in the upper center):



Fossil: KNM-ER 3733

Site: Koobi Fora (Upper KBS tuff, area 104), Lake Turkana, Kenya (4, 1)

Discovered By: B. Ngeneo, 1975 (1)

Estimated Age of Fossil: 1.75 mya * determined by Stratigraphic, faunal, paleomagnetic & radiometric data (1, 4)

Species Name: Homo ergaster (1, 7, 8), Homo erectus (3, 4, 7), Homo erectus ergaster (25)

Gender: Female (species presumed to be sexually dimorphic) (1, 8)

Cranial Capacity: 850 cc (1, 3, 4)

Information: Tools found in same layer (8, 9). Found with KNM-ER 406 A. boisei (effectively eliminating single species hypothesis) (1)

Interpretation: Adult (based on cranial sutures, molar eruption and dental wear) (1)

See original source for notes:
Source: http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=33


Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html

166 posted on 09/18/2006 5:45:51 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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