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A severe problem for evolutionists is the absence of transitional forms in the fossil record. By transitional forms, we mean intermediate forms of life appearing in the fossil record that are "in-between" existing types of organisms found today or in the past.

Once there were only two fossils standing between eohippus and horse, now there are about twenty, occuring in a graded sequence, inside a graded geological sequence, predicted, and then found, and creationists are now happy to claim that every single pair of them have a "fossil gap" between them. The argument doesn't rest on continuous evidence, it rests on inductive reasoning about the fossils that we do see, to explain why they have so much in common, along what looks like a graded continuous spectrum of forms, chemistry, morphology and function. Do you reject the law of universal gravitation because there are large gaps between stars for which no evidence exists. Why are you so concerned about fossil gaps, when the deceitful, left-wing, athiestic stellar gaps are so much larger?

1,090 posted on 05/03/2006 9:14:28 AM PDT by donh
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Once there were only three gaps standing between eohippus and horse, now there are twenty-one. The distance is growing!


1,114 posted on 05/03/2006 10:55:43 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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