[ClearCase_guy]

For example, a tooth root from the species Biretia megalopsis is truncated, indicating that it had to make room for the larger eyesocket of a nocturnal animal.

The tooth root seems short.
It must be truncated by the eye socket.
The eye socket must have been quite large.
A large eye socket indicates a nocturnal animal.

All quite possible. Still, from a few teeth and jaw fragments, they build up so much. Evolution is just conjecture on conjecture on conjecture. I don't have enough faith to believe in a 37 million year long chain of guesses.

[mlc9852]

"Still, from a few teeth and jaw fragments, they build up so much. Evolution is just conjecture on conjecture on conjecture. I don't have enough faith to believe in a 37 million year long chain of guesses."

That was what I thought. A few teeth and jaw fragments and they know all this from 37 million years ago? A leap of faith.

[Rudder]

Evolution is just conjecture on conjecture on conjecture. I don't have enough faith to believe in a 37 million year long chain of guesses.

Thankfully, there's a lot more data supportive of evoultion than this study.

[Vaquero]

Evolution is just conjecture on conjecture on conjecture. I don't have enough faith to believe in a 37 million year long chain of guesses But you have faith in words written down by a bunch of Bronze age, sandal wearing, goat herders. nice call.

[Attillathehon]

I don't know if any of you remember the original Cosmos series by Carl Sagan. In it he described a group of early scientists looking at Mars and saying they couldn't see a thing, therefore there must be an atmosphere. And, if there is an atmosphere, there must be plant life. And, if there is plant life then animal life must have evolved just as it did here on hearth. In other words he said:

Observation: I can't see a thing.

Conclusion: Dinosaurs!

It was a great example of scientists reading too much into the "evidence."

For the record, Carl Sagan believed in evolution and God.

[Ichneumon]

Still, from a few teeth and jaw fragments, they build up so much.

If that was *all* they had, you'd have a point. But since it's not, you don't.

Evolution is just conjecture on conjecture on conjecture.

Wrong again. Very, very wrong. Evolution is based on mountains of evidence, and has been validated and cross-confirmed in more ways than you can possibly imagine. So please stop lying about it. Thanks.

I don't have enough faith to believe in a 37 million year long chain of guesses.

Neither do I, that's why I follow the actual real-world evidence, and the many methods by which the theory of evolution has been cross-checked and found valid, and has passed countless numbers of potential falsification tests.

So again, you really might want to consider stop lying about the nature of evolutionary biology.