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Please.
Indulge me. Post some links, pics... Of any fossil beyond homo-erectus, Of any species, In mid evolution. Come on evolutionists! We got billions of fossils on this earth... And I got all the time in the world. |
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I'm not trying to be rude!
But out of billions of fossils, Shouldn't each species, Have at least ONE fossil record, Of it's evolution? Super curious here. SUPER curious here. |
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Birdosaur
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I can't say I expect many replies to my first post,
Since they don't exist. But I'm sure someone's gonna get ticked. I'm not being rude, Just pointing out, That there is no fossil record, For all the species. Simplest proof of a disaster. But please, I'm cordially inviting you all, To prove me wrong. I am aware of there possibilities, Of three species. But there are thousands of species, There should be thousands of fossils. Skeptics... Please. Teach me. |
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Nope, the fossil record is not "required" to preserve everything, and you have a strange idea that species are distinct entities rather than fuzzily defined categorisations of populations. Fossilisation is rare at the best of times, and most species that have existed will have gone extinct without any fossilisation events preserving them.
The good thing is that life is rather promiscuous, and as a result we can create a very reasonable and accurate timeline of evolutionary development based on the fossils we do find. These fossils have all confirmed the prevailing modern Theory, not challenged it. Good luck in your quest to show that evolution is false though, I look forward to your thesis on the obvious replacement for the modern synthesis which is...? |
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I see completely formed limbs in those pictures'
Apparently, My request is not yet understood. NEXT. |
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Hi Windy.
How about starting with proof of something that you yourself believe. |
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Thesis?
Simple truth requires no thesis. Each major species, Should have a record. There are billions of fossils. And here yet understands the simple truth of my demands. |
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It seems you have to learn what evolution is.
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html |
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The google image search is roflcopterz
None of those pictures on the first page are in mid evolution, We have very much the same alive today. Some species extinct, But that's ALL there is to say. |
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I see no reason why each species should be required to have at least one fossilized evidence of its existence.
Let me switch this around on you, And tell you to search for fossils of these three: Duck billed platypus, dodo, bald eagle. If you can't find fossilized evidence of each, Then why should there be, A need, To have EVERY species fossilized. Side note, how far does your telepathy extend? I'd be interested in knowing if you could read what I'm thinking as I'm typing this sentence. |
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Windy: What we consider a "species" is an arbitrary designation used by us for our own convenience. Nature does not see things in the form of "species". There isn't an "A" that suddenly becomes a "B" that later transforms into "C". Evolution doesn't have "stops" that we call "species" in that way. They're all arbitrary points on a piece of string that occasionally branches out. Every fossil out there has a home somewhere on that branching piece of string.
And we can see easily enough the evolution of humans even in these modern times. The average height of humans has risen, what, six inches in the past two thousand years? |
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Oh, and by the way, we are ALL, if fossilized, transitional forms. There is no big red line between species.
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Billions of fossils.
First post has not yet been met. Yaaaawnz |
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Windy - how do theists like me fit into your world view. I believe in God and unreservedly accept evolution and the story the fossil record tells of the journey of life on this planet
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You will let us know when you've looked over those million and a half pictures of fossils I linked, won't you? |
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I win.
Goodnight. ~.~ |
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Oh, that's because all those things in those fossils are in intermediate stages of evolution. You see, if evolution wasn't occurring that's when the fossils would look just like things alive today. Science is very interesting that way. You keep at it, go another couple hundred thousand pictures then check back and let us know what you've learned. |
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Oh, what you have there is an argument from ignorance. Your lack of understanding the science of evolution doesn't invalidate it. Do let us know when you've looked over a few hundred thousand fossil images. And how about you sort them and put them in order of the ones that most resemble each other. It's not the most scientific way to learn about evolution, but since you're probably looking for something appropriate for a grade school kid, it might get you started. |
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Why bother to fantasize,
About a reality that doesn't exist, When we are first discussing a reality, That supposedly exist? I don't care which comes first, No can deliver, Because it doesn't exist. Shame no one gets it, But the golden ones, Who shut up, Earlier in the thread. |
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You are correct, the topic of this thread is your miserably uninformed and deliberately ignorant views about the modern synthesis.
Care to provide any actual evidence that the entire biological scientific community is wrong on the ToE being the accurate description of the diversity of life on Earth? |
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