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Posted by johnny_domino, Fri Sep-26-03 02:37 AM
>This is a qoute from leading evolutionist Stephen Gould.
>
>" The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil
>record persist as the trade secrete of paleontology. The
>evolutionary tree that adorn our textbooks have data only at
>the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inferance,
>however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."

Fossils don't exactly just pop up out of the ground by themselves y'know. It's lucky when we find some, and we can't go digging everything up just to prove to you how everything evolved. It is very lucky when a fossil does survive millions of years, but no, we're not finding enough to make you happy. Of course it's based on inference, compiling a complete fossil record would probably be impossible, given the vast number of species that died without leaving their skeleton in a place that leads to fossilization.
>

>Some other problems for evolutionist is explaining how the
>conscience,will and emotion evolved.
Take that to the Lewis post. Seriously. Conscience and will are social constructs that we're fortunate enough to have and be able to debate because our brains are so damn evolved. Emotion exists in species beyond just humans. Part of it is survival instinct, but we've managed to develop a lot of different shades of it because we have the luxury of doing that, and because our brains and language capacity are quite evolved.


And weird animals such
>as the woodpecker who hits with the force of 6g's. Enough
>force to knock it's brains out, but just happens to have a
>cartilage tongue long enough to wrap around it and prevent
>his brains from flying out. How could that evolve? (it does
>not get to many chances to get it right.)
Well maybe it didn't used to hit with such a force? Did you ever think of that?

Or the bombader
>beatle which has acids inside its body, that are kept
>seperate in different chambers and mix only when he spits
>out the venom. If they were to connect it would kill
>itself.
Yeah, and I bet a lot of beetles died along the way. Evolution has produced many specialized animals, plants, insects, any living thing, you could list 'em all day, but you're not really doing anything to disprove them, scientifically.