This "transitional fossil" gambit is a typical creationist tactic that is actually pretty genius. No matter how many transitional fossils are presented, there are never going to be "more than a few" with respect to the hundreds of millions of species that have ever inhabited this planet. The double whammy comes in when every time there is a transitional fossil to fill the gap... guess what? Now there are two gaps! It really is great as an apologetic...as long as you don't think about it too long.
Never mind that there actually are some fantastic examples of exactly what you would expect if evolution were true, never mind that some of the best examples of these transitional fossils are part of the human lineage. Never mind the fact that fossilization is an extremely rare event that requires precise conditions and that we are extremely lucky to have what we have. There's just never enough.
Never mind that there actually are some fantastic examples of exactly what you would expect if evolution were true, never mind that some of the best examples of these transitional fossils are part of the human lineage. Never mind the fact that fossilization is an extremely rare event that requires precise conditions and that we are extremely lucky to have what we have. There's just never enough.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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