Gogonasus Fish topic at Terry's Talk Origins
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It's not obvious which messages are replies to which messages, but I'll quote a few of them.
The Great Society, at message 4 writes:
You're free to make whatever misrepresentation that suits your fancy.
I just have to wonder why God chose to be so ardently thorough in filling in fish to amphibian transitions? Why is it God so loved the evolutionists that He gave them Gogonasus, rhipidistian lungfish, acanthostega, icthyostega, and the hoary host of devonian fish to amphibian transitions?
What has God got against the creationists that He cannot at least hide or supress such fossils, or include a few cenozoic fossils in paleozoic strata?
Terry (aka AmPaTerry), at message 7 writes:
ONE transitional form from fish to amphibian is evidence for evolution, TGS.
A dozen is evidence against it, by showint that they are not actually transitionals -
Unles you care to claim that fish evolved into amphibians over and over and over again - - - ?
Which begs the question of the mechanism that would cause such a thing -
Terry
Mind boggling!
The Great Society, at message 8 writes:
A dozen simply fill in sequences along the way. Gogonasus is a fish, not an amphibian, but probably more amphibian-like than the rhipidistian fish from which it likely evolved.
What you seem to be saying is that if we have:
A E L, evolution is proven, but if we have:
A B C D E F G H I J K L, then it is disproven.
But then I hear plenty of other folks complain that although we have the primary intermediaries between A & L, we still lack intermediaries between A & B, so we cannot really surmise B evolved from A.
I repeat, from Terry's message: 1 transitional = evidence for evolution, many transitionals = evidence against evolution.
I wonder what 0 transitionals would mean? I would think good evidence for creationism. 1 transitional? - Maybe God wanted to created a kind in the middle.
Moose
Edited by Minnemooseus, : "ApPaTerry" to "AmPaTerry". He considers himself to be a great "American Patriot".
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