Originally Posted by antlers
Originally Posted by Ringman
Here's an interesting quote from Stephen Jay Gould.
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches;
the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”
Based on observation and repeatability...based on the evidence we have. Gould knew that most fossils are still in place, embedded in to earth's crust and inaccessible. Gould also knew that thousands of fossils ‘have’ been discovered, and we do see a reasonably smooth continuum in the fossil record for some species where sufficient fossils have been found. In other cases where the fossil record is incomplete, it is not possible to demonstrate a smooth transition. Creationists would have us believe that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. The argument that we should see a smooth continuum for ‘all’ species doesn't wash. The dishonest and disingenuous tactic of the creationists is that if ‘any’ information is unknown, then what ‘is’ known is incorrect.
And you left out the part about Gould being an evolutionist who argued against creationism.


The fossil record was generated by Noah's Flood a few thousand years ago. There are literally trillions of fossils to investigate. And yet where are the millions of transitional forms?

You wrote several words to not say anything. If you accept Gould at his word you have to admit there is no evidence for evolution. Of course your blind faith in the unknown and unknowable is too strong and you always come up with a recuing device.

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