Evolution's nervous breakdown. - talk.origins

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From: Ye Old One <use...@mcsuk.net>

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:52:54 GMT

Local: Wed, Nov 4 2009 7:52 pm

Subject: Re: Evolution's nervous breakdown.

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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:28:01 +0000 (UTC), Kalkidas <e...@joes.pub>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

>Iain <iain_inks...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:36fee048-19ea-4b62-bfb5-
>58a704118...@l2g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:

>> On Nov 2, 5:330m, All-seeing-I <ap...@email.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 2, 10:02!m, raven1 <quoththera...@nevermore.com> wrote:

>>> > Change accumulates over time. Strike five. Yer out.

>>> Well. If the changes are going to accumulate where are your fossils of
>>> a creature developing the new attribute such as a wing. There should
>>> be plenty of evidence in the fossil record of creatures slowly
>>> changing.

>> Um, yes. That's what the fossil record is all about.

>> --Iain

>There is nothing in the fossil record itself that demands an evolutionary
>interpretation.

And yet, without evolution, the fossil record is hard to explain.

>What is actually observed is static forms preserved at different instants
>of time in the past.

No, what is observed is evolution over the last 3.8 billion years.

> The fossils do not imply evolution. Rather, the idea
>that they represent different stages of evolutionary change is an
>interpretation which presupposes evolution.

No, wrong again.

--
Bob.

You have not been charged for this lesson - learn from it rather than
continuing to make a fool of yourself.

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