A Myth Regarding The Origin Of Hands And Feet On ntvmsnbc.com!

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The myth, I'm afraid, is "that there are no transitional fossils". Why does Yahya persist in his claim that that is true? It is not true, and anyone with a vaguely open mind knows it is not true; maybe he just does not expect his audience to have an open mind. At least someone seems to have finally explained the difference between 'evolution' and 'Darwinian natural selection' to him, which is something, I suppose.

With regard to Dr Raup, directly after

Darwin's theory of natural selection has always been closely linked to evidence from fossils, and probably most people assume that fossils provide a very important part of the general argument that is made in favor of darwinian interpretations of the history of life. Unfortunately, this is not strictly true

he says.

We must distinguish between the fact of evolution -- defined as change in organisms over time -- and the explanation of this change. Darwin's contribution, through his theory of natural selection, was to suggest how the evolutionary change took place. The evidence we find in the geologic record is not nearly as compatible with darwinian natural selection as we would like it to be. Darwin was completely aware of this. He was embarrassed by the fossil record because it didn't look the way he predicted it would and, as a result, he devoted a long section of his Origin of Species to an attempt to explain and rationalize the differences. There were several problems, but the principle one was that the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution. In other words, there are not enough intermediates.

and

There are very few cases where one can find a gradual transition from one species to another and very few cases where one can look at a part of the fossil record and actually see that organisms were improving in the sense of becoming better adapted.

Note, the "very few" not "none".

 

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I've observed that religious people do like a lot these False stamp:

They don't show evidence, but a good old big red «False», much more effective for they're cause than an explanation with facts. Anyway, the one's trhat always win is that one:

Man, the 3 last pics of skull and skeleton: The guy who did that had way too much free time! ;D