wj:
I think you're confused by the way prophecyexclaimed wrote that. He was actually responding to NoseyNed in message three (who was responding to mike-the-wiz from message 1). Basically, reformatting to show what really transpired:
Noseyned, in message 3, writes:
Perhaps this should be handled by an expert. But I think you have your facts a bit off. "exactly the same" implies the same species.
I don't think you will be able to site a single case of a species lasting more than a few million years.
NN was responding to mike's statement:
mike, in the OP, writes:
I have been listening to John Mackay's (geologist) and his evidence is very good, the fossils are a problem for me, as he explained there are a huge amount of fossils that look exactly the same as animals today, frogs, starfish, sharks, he has found many fossils that have missed the 'evolutionary boat' is this a major problem? I think it is but I'm no expert, whats your view?
Mike conceded the point when someone (PaulK, I think) showed him pictures of extinct critters that were still generically "type" (sharks, in this case, and specifically
Megalodon) as examples of how simply because a "type" of organism has persisted, it doesn't imply that the particular
species persisted for millions of years.
prophecyexclaimed, IOW, was making a bald assertion:
Obviously, millions of years don't exist.
A one-shot, off-topic irrelevancy.
Hope that clarifies things.
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