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Re: Problems with Darwin's theory
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 6 Feb 2001 05:23:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Culberson writes:
> I promised I wouldn't re-enter this debate but...
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> > 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.
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> 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.
Mount Cadiz, southern California. An exposed abuttement of Cambrian and
Precambrian rock. Zillions of Trilobites. Hip deep in them. Zillions may
be an underestimate.
Bruce
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| (...) Um, well, let's see--the majority may be of animals of a similar *type* (e.g., "teleost fish" or "reptiles") but very, very few are of the same species (or even genus). The most common living fossils cited are the coelecanth (genus Latimera), (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I promised I wouldn't re-enter this debate but... (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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