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To: PatrickHenry
You must have missed this part:

I'm still looking for a post showing the evolution of one kind to another

But thanks for the links anyway. At the risk of doing the broken record routine I'll write it again. You cannot show a fossil record with any amount of completeness to be able to demonstrate one kind of animal evolving to another. Let me break it down so even an evolutionist can understand... I'm quite impressed that a short, brown, horsey might evolve into a taller, tan horsey, but that does not mean the horsey was ever a fishy.

Huge gaps in the geologic record = no verifiable evidence that evolution of the type necessary to make men out of muck ever happened.

305 posted on 01/31/2004 10:36:42 AM PST by Gerasimov (My last tag line sucked, so now I have this one.)
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To: Gerasimov
You must have missed this part: I'm still looking for a post showing the evolution of one kind to another ... You cannot show a fossil record with any amount of completeness to be able to demonstrate one kind of animal evolving to another.

Your question indicates that you don't yet understand how evolution works. No one claims that you have fish in one generation and polar bears in the next. If that's what's bothering you, you can stop worrying. It doesn't happen, and of course no one will show you a fossil which somehow illustrates that it does. It takes a large number of tiny mutations, over thousands of generations, to accumulate into significant changes. The only fossils are of individual creatures, and each one is what it is. You need to look at the large picture, which stretches over millions of years, so see what existed before and after any particular fossil. Only then does the pattern emerge. Check out the links I gave you earlier. The evidence of such patterns is there.

308 posted on 01/31/2004 11:56:51 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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