Heated debate on evolution with brother

[Cyberman]

Where are the fossils?

Someone actually said that with a straight face?

[Jackie]

Where are the fossils?

Someone actually said that with a straight face?

[downbeatplumb]

[Alex K]

Where are the fossils?

Someone actually said that with a straight face?

Yep, you saw it here first. Creationism leads to brain damage.

[Amarok]

This is what happened: God created the Cambrian animals in the greatest possible diversity at the greatest possible abundance levels at the earliest time permitted in the history of the universe (earlier human beings and human civilization would be impossible). 
This is what your guys are dealing with*: The evolutionary paradigm has had it day; however, this century finds it crumbling at a exponential rate.
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Fact: Forty phyla of complex animals suddenly appear in the fossils record, no forerunners, no transitional forms leading to them ‘‘a major mystery,’’ a ‘‘challenge.’’ Although we would dispute the numbers, and aside from the last line, there is not much here that we would disagree with. Indeed, many of Darwin’s contemporaries shared these sentiments, 
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Thus, elucidating the materialistic basis of the Cambrian explosion has become more elusive, not less, the more we know about the event itself, and cannot be explained away by coupling extinction of intermediates with long stretches of geologic time, despite the contrary claims of some modern neo-Darwinists…   Kevin Peterson et al. (evolutionary biologists). 
*http://enallagma.com/reprints/Peterson%2...Essays.pdf
 
Darwin knew he didn’t have the fossils, but he assumed it would be just a matter of time before they were unearthed (1859 –present, no fossil. Damn, where are they?)
 

Well firstly fossilisation is something that only happens rarely, we are lucky indeed to have the supply of fossils that we do.

What you are suggesting is the for seven eighths of the earths history there was no life then, poof suddenly complex life, therefore god.



This is irrelevant because life has been discovered to have existed at least 4.2 billion years ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/...rs-likely/

And the Cambrian was relatively recent 551 million years ago. Plenty of time for complex life to develop.

Not to mention soft fossils are even rarer and indeed we should be grateful we have any fossils at all . And as for snow tracks slander of Darwin  he explains in his own freaking (clearly he's  never read it ) why fossil would be few via geology .

[brewer]

Where are the fossils?

Someone actually said that with a straight face?

I'm right here, and it's not funny.

[snowtracks]

[downbeatplumb]

Hey atheist, if one of own doesn't even know the posting is not about the origin of live 4 bya; it's all right to correct another atheist by telling them to at least get in the right ball park.

Can I have that in English please?

[snowtracks]

[Jackie]

Hey atheist, if one of own doesn't even know the posting is not about the origin of live 4 bya; it's all right to correct another atheist by telling them to at least get in the right ball park.

Can I have that in English please?

I have my Siri bullshit translator handy, "Ignore the fact that my "god of the gaps" argument does not explain anything, be it about the origin of life or the universe". 

Hate to burst your bubble Snowy, but God/god/diety/super natural doesn't fill in any gaps, be it about the origins of life or the universe. It only demonstrates humans like believing those things.