** Private ** wrote: > So if this is true, where is the intermediate form of species, the > connecting links if you will?
You mean like the geep, the swoose and the beefalo? > Nor is there any archeological evidence to back his theory. > Although there is ample evidence for many complete species, fossil records > provide almost no evidence for the intermediate connecting links. What archeological evidence do you expect? A fossil record showing how a group of organisms split, with regular samples of sufficient size to be statistically significant? Where did we even find that for one species? > Later on, Darwin's theory was revised by scientists and thus was born the > Punctuated Equilibrium evolutionary theory, supposedly making evolution > invisible in the fossil record (how convenient). But of course this theory > is not verifiable in any way and is in fact considered highly speculative. It may be speculative with regard to the explanation of the distribution of found fossils over species, the phenomenon of sudden, fast evolution has been observed: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/061201_quietcrickets > The only thing that the fossil record contains is the records of complete, > fully-formed species. If evolution were true, then surely there would be > proof of half or partially evolved species? What would a half or partially evolved species look like? Would it be recognizable by its fossils? Apart from the problem that the fossil record is hugely incomplete, does it actually allow us to identify species? Is a goose a half evolved species? It can crossbreed with ducks and swans, that to my knowledge can not crossbreed with eachother. If in 20000 years somebody finds a few incomplete fossils of the bison in North America, and somebody else finds a few incomplete fossils of domesticated cattle in Europe, will they be classified as the same species or not? The geography, the humps, the size of the horns, the size of the animals etc. make me think not. Yet they can produce fertile offspring so by the definition they are the same species. And how about a buffalo and a sub-Saharan cow? > This is one of the many holes in his theory, and to me this is a big one. Please continue with the other holes. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246618 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
