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To: Exnihilo
And it is of course obvious that the fossil record is woefully inadequate.

Funny thing about evolutionists is that they admit the fossil record is inadequate themselves but they continue to make categorical statements proclaiming evolution to be true based on the very fossil record which they find inadequate!

Not only are there tremendous gaps in the fossil record, but also fossils tell us very little about a species. Fossils (except in very special circumstances which can be counted on the fingers of one hand) do not provide DNA. Fossils often do not provide a complete skeleton, just bits and pieces of the specimen. Fossils more importantly do not provide evidence of 99% of what makes up an individual, what makes each species, each individual different. With so many pieces missing, paleontology is just a game of who can make up the most fantastic interpretation for the smallest evidence possible.

205 posted on 03/10/2002 8:45:05 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
With so many pieces missing, paleontology is just a game of who can make up the most fantastic interpretation for the smallest evidence possible.

One of the things I find offensive is the cavalier way the anti-evolutionists dismiss other people's work. No, it not 'just a game' - there is a very large amount of study, work, and weighing evidence involved. People may come to wrong conclusions, but there are very few cases of outright fraud (and these were usually discovered because they went against evolution, not because a creationist found an error)

I guess it's almost a literal truth to some of the antis, but the devil is in the details.

PS, just why do whales have hipbones, and why is an occasional whale born with legs? Is there any explanation other than descent from terrestial ancestors?

PPS and why do chimps and people share the **exact same** (those devilish details again!) mutation that prevents vitamin C formation?

272 posted on 03/13/2002 9:02:09 AM PST by Virginia-American
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