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Edited by SSG ACM: 5/4/2015 2:56:37 PMEvolutionists claim that the process of evolution is in fact very slow and very minuet, but all atheistic archeologists can find are only an acclaimed few and state, "These few (not many) transitional fossils tell us that [insert name of species] have evolved on planet Earth for over millions of millennia." Even Darwin doubted as to the origin of these small minuet changes that were acclaimed to be caused by the present environmental hazards he assumed to be affecting their biology, saying, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree...The difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection , though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered subversive of the theory" ([i]On the Origin of Species[/i], Chapter 6). The study of abiogenesis (the original evolution of life or living organisms from inorganic or inanimate substances.) doesn't even have a conclusion as to the manifestation of organic life from non-organic material, or even a conclusion as to the necessity and development of intelligence (for only one species) and complexity. You would also notice in the video that Richard Dawkins stated in response to the question about something to the effect of (this is in my own words as to how I perceived the questions and answers), "How does one handle with the sea of evolution being considered a theory?" to which he responded at the 19 second mark, "I [b]think[/b] that the best way for someone to deal with this is to use the word fact because evolution is a fact?" Is there something you noticed to be hypocritical in that statement? I know that we admire the man for his intelligence, but when an acclaimed intelligent individual is basing this solely on his opinion, we must take extra effort to discern whether further statements are followed by some perfidious motive.
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Edited by NaLo: 5/4/2015 3:03:39 PMFossils are rare that's why there aren't millions of transitional ones. There are some though.
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[quote]...that's why there aren't millions of transitional ones. There are some though.[/quote]There are not even a thousand of one species.
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Fossils in general are very rare. Animals don't automatically become fossils when they die, the environment around them must be just right. Just over 50 specimen of Tyrannosaurs Rex have been identified.
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Only 50 out of at least tens of millions of years?
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Yes. Fossils don't form easily. [quote]Organisms are only rarely preserved as fossils in the best of circumstances, and only a fraction of such fossils have been discovered. This is illustrated by the fact that the number of species known through the fossil record is less than 5% of the number of known living species, suggesting that the number of species known through fossils must be far less than 1% of all the species that have ever lived. Because of the specialized and rare circumstances required for a biological structure to fossilize, only a small percentage of life-forms can be expected to be represented in discoveries, and each discovery represents only a snapshot of the process of evolution. The transition itself can only be illustrated and corroborated by transitional fossils, which will never demonstrate an exact half-way point. The fossil record is heavily slanted toward organisms with hard parts, leaving most groups of soft-bodied organisms with little to no role. It is replete with the mollusks, the vertebrates, the echinoderms, the brachiopods and some groups of arthropods.[/quote]
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[quote]Fossils are rate...[/quote]?
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*rare
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Bump for science
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I just now got back to the forum and replied to the above comment.