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Author Topic:   The TOE is supported by the Fossil Record
BeagleBob
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Message 16 of 17 (480905)
09-07-2008 4:27 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by randman
07-02-2008 6:13 PM


Re: be specific
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On the question of the fossil record, you claim the TOE is supported by the Fossil Record. Ok, as a challenge, please show a sequence of, say, 10 speciation events or more leading to the origin of higher taxa in the fossil record. All I am asking is that the process Darwinists claim occured be shown in the fossil record, actual evidence, not inferred evidence.
There are only 6 transitional fossils listed in just this article, but there are also charts out there that list 12-15 or so:
The Origin of Whales and the Power of Independent Evidence
This article also shows no less than eight independent lines of evidence that link ancestral whale fossils to modern whales.
For example, morphological evidence shows a foot structure found in the ancestral fossil that is rather specific to whales, and shared only by a few other animal groups. We also see a transitioning inner ear structure that shows a gradual evolution from ancestral land mammals to marine whales, since the ear had to evolve to work better underwater.
You'll also find molecular evidence, embryological evidence, chemical evidence, etc.
The data also points to a model of how the whales evolved and why they did in that era.

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Message 17 of 17 (480916)
09-07-2008 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Archer Opteryx
08-08-2008 11:30 AM


Re: Baylor's Geology FAQs and topic support
Excellent indeed.
They have a link to the Biology Dept with this
quote:
Statement on Evolution
"Evolution, a foundational principle of modern biology, is supported by overwhelming scientific evidence and is accepted by the vast majority of scientists. Because it is fundamental to the understanding of modern biology, the faculty in the Biology Department at Baylor University, Waco, TX, teach evolution throughout the biology curriculum. We are in accordance with the American Association for Advancement of Science's statement on evolution. We are a science department, so we do not teach alternative hypotheses or philosophically deduced theories that cannot be tested rigorously."
and to this document that is surprisingly on topic eh?
Enjoy.
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