[Junior]

Great mental exercise. Besides, I like being right ;^)>

[JMJ333]

Why debate evolution? Because...The facts in favor of evolution are often held to be incontrovertible. Those facts, however, have been rather less forthcoming than evolutionary biologists make out. If life progressed by an accumulation of small changes, as they say it has, the fossil record should reflect its flow, the dead stacked up in barely separated strata. But for well over 150 years, the dead have been remarkably diffident about confirming Darwin's theory. there are gaps in the graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms but where there is nothing whatsoever instead.

Before the Cambrian era very little is inscribed in the fossil record; but then, signaled by what I imagine as a spectral puff of smoke and a deafening ta-da!, an astonishing number of novel biological structures come into creation, and they come into creation at once.

Thereafter, the major transitional sequences are incomplete. Most species enter the evolutionary order fully formed and then depart unchanged. Where there should be evolution, there is stasis instead.

The fundamental core of Darwinian doctrine is no longer in dispute among scientists. Such is the party line....But it was to the dead that Darwin pointed for confirmation of his theory; the fact that paleontology does not entirely support his doctrine has been a secret of long standing among paleontologists. The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution accomplishing a major morphologic transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.

Now...these same people [the extreme dogmatic ones] use it as a tool to deny the existance of God. Sorry--that won't fly, because it does nothing of the sort.