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To: js1138
How do you explain the discovery of transitionals, when they are found?

How do you know whether a fossil is a "transitional"? You're assuming your conclusion.

One last question, before I put on my London Fog and leave the room: What do you suppose the ratio is between the total number of fossils that have been found, and the total number of individuals that have ever lived? One in a hundred; one in a thousand; one in a million; one in a billion; one in a trillion; greater?

I don't know. I'll pick one in a trillion.

If this is true, how does this explain the fact that we find multiple fossils of the same creature dating from various eras?

388 posted on 05/05/2005 8:23:24 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
If this is true, how does this explain the fact that we find multiple fossils of the same creature dating from various eras?

Possibly because conditions at one particular moment in time favored preservation. Why do we find preserved bodies in peat bogs and in Florida sinkholes that have high concentrations of tannic acid? Since we can see differences in the preservation of remains in our current sintation, it is reasonable to assume that not every time and place preserves remains.

Fossils are labeled transitional because of their intermediate features. One theory of the past predicts finding fossils with intermediate features and another theory makes no predictions.

392 posted on 05/05/2005 8:32:25 AM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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