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Re: Problems with Darwin's theory
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Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:31:02 GMT
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I promised I wouldn't re-enter this debate but...
> And something else here-- there really are very very very very few fossils
> that we've found compared with the number of living beings on Earth in the
> last billion years or so. I'd consider us EXTREMELY lucky to get one sample
> of every species, let alone any of the so-deemed 'transition' fossils.
I find it interesting that you do in fact find it extremely lucky. I
also find it EXTREMELY convenient that vast majority of these
(supposedly) few fossils just happen to be of non-extinct animals living
today compared with (your belief of) the millions of other living beings
that have lived on the earth for the past billion years or so --- namely
those mysterious transition fossils.
--
-TiM
NB, CA
http://echofx.itgo.com
t_c_c@yahoo.com
3ch0fx
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| (...) Bwahaha. The vast majority of fossils are of non extinct animals? Find me a live trilobite, will you? Trilobites are the most common fossil out there, which isn't too surprising since they apparently lived 300-600 million years ago and had (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) ? Why's that? Should I instead expect to find at least one fossil from every living 'species' that ever existed on Earth? I don't. On what sort of basis would you assume otherwise? (...) ? Ok, 1st off, I dunno if that's true. There's certainly (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Actually, while I'm not an expert on the issue, shouldn't there be more normal than transitional? As I understand the 'current' theory of evolution, mutations happen in 'spurts'-- hence there would be much more probability (assuming standard (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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