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To: ConservaTexan
If the theory inherently implies that there should be larger amounts of evidence in the fossil record and there is not, then the theory is, at best, severely flawed.

First, I am not sure of your source for "there should be larger amounts of evidence in the fossil record and there is not." There actually is a huge amount of evidence. There is enough evidence to sink the ark, literally. Much of it is faunal (critters, not hominid), but a sizable amount is in the "fossil man" category. I have actually studied a lot of the hominid casts personally; not the new ones, as I left grad school quite a while ago, but all of the major ones extant a couple of decades ago.

The "severely flawed" statement depends more on the nature of the evidence than the amount.

First, a moving picture at 32 frames per second appears continuous, but there are 32 gaps per second. Its pretty good at 16 frames, and adequate at 8. There may be a lot of gaps, but the data still forms a coherent picture. To hear anti-evolutionists talk, there would be no frames, and that is absolutely not correct. We may not be at 32 frames, but we are getting an adequate picture with the data at hand.

Secondly, it the data largely point in a specific direction, less is needed. When the data point in all directions, uniformly, no amount will be enough. The theory of evolution has most of the data pointing in the same general direction. The big picture has been largely settled; scientists are now working out some of the smaller points. There will still be surprises, but with the introduction of genetics, which confirmed the existing theories rather than overturning them, it looks like the overall theory of evolution has been well established.

Sorry the baseball game didn't work out as well as you might have liked, but I bet it was fun anyway.

249 posted on 06/22/2006 10:43:56 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death--Heinlein)
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To: Coyoteman

The problem is that if we are at 8 fps with 8 gaps and we go to 32 fps the creos will say we have more gaps now than before; proof of the failure of evolutionary theory.


254 posted on 06/22/2006 11:01:20 PM PDT by OmahaFields
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