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How would you respond to this anti-evolution "argument"?
I just saw this answer from a creationist in another question about transitional fossils:
"Misinterpretation of the fossil record. The pictures in the link show some fairly big 'jumps' from one species to the next, so the question is still valid - 'where are the transitional fossils between the big jumps shown in the pictures?'"
This is a clever but vacuous cop-out answer. Creationists ask "where are the transitional fossils?" So you show them some transitional fossils, and they maintain that this isn't enough and ask you to show them the transitional fossils between these transitional fossils.
They say there's a "gap" in the fossil record between man and the ancestor common to man and ape. When you show them one fossil that fills the gap, they turn around and say "Aha! Now you have TWO gaps! Your theory is doubly wrong!" You could show them two more transitional fossils, and they'd be happy to point out how you now have four gaps, etc. etc.
The failure in logic is maddening.
9 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'd say he is an idiot. First of all, he is only basing his argument on pictures? Has that person even studied evolution? I don't think so. And those "gaps" are flaws! Flaws do not prove that something is totally wrong, we have a lot of information backing up that theory. Plus, if that theory is wrong, then everything in nature must NOT be happening because evolution happens everyday. When bacteria, like the flu, get stronger and mutate, evolution is happening.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
"Misinterpretation of the fossil record...."
>there is no reason transitional fossils should be in those layers of rock.
Since Creationists don't understand Science, or how it works,
they cannot comprehend the hard evidence.
Since Creationists fear burning in Hell for all eternity,
they refuse to budge from their wishful thinking.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Their talking about the cambrian period, in which the dinosaurs had all died out and mammals were now thriving.
There aren't many transitional fossils of these animals because evolution was so quick in the cambrian period.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/212
"Debating Creationists on the topic of Evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory." - Scott D. Weitzenhoffer
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No response. Creationists are just butthurt that they lost the battle, so now they just pick at one part of evolution until their claims are debunked, and then they rinse and repeat.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
don't waste your time debating with a creationist, you're better off headbutting a brick wall.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
reminds me of the beast of revelations. You chop its head off and it just grows another. The people marvel at how it can be immune to logic.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Seems like you answered your own question. wont be needing me so..............um
