So you still believe in evolution?

Question

"It is as though they [fossils] were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. Both schools of thought (Punctuationists and Gradualists) despise so-called scientific creationists equally, and both agree that the major gaps are real, that they are true imperfections in the fossil record. The only alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of so many complex animal types in the Cambrian era is divine creation and both reject this alternative."

-Richard Dawkins, 'The Blind Watchmaker', W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996, pp. 229-230

"In fact, the fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition from one species to another."

-Evolutionist Stephen M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University

A major problem in proving the theory has been the fossil record; the imprints of vanished species preserved in the Earth's geological formations. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin's hypothetical intermediate variants - instead species appear and disappear abruptly, and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species was created by God.

-Paleontologist Mark Czarnecki (an evolutionist)

"The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all of the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin!"

- Dr. Lyall Watson

"Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed. But, as by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?"

-Charles Darwin

Answer 1

evolution is fake. if we were apes at some point why are there still apes. atheist have some of the stupidest theories in the world....how exactly does the universe suddenly exploding and making life make sense, and not only that but intelligent life. the answer is it doesn't. there is clear proof that evolution doesn't exist. sorry atheist but the answer to how we came about is god regardless of what argument or website you put out arguing he is fake there is always a flaw or lie you throw in

Answer 2

Sadly, sure. I don't fully grasp how they are able to manage the cognitive dissonance. You don't seem to be good-informed due to the fact that you don't appreciate that thought is the maximum degree in technological know-how. It's now not a wager. It is ignorant to mention "JUST a thought". The average ancestor of all apes (adding men and women and chimps) is a monkey and that may be validated in your pleasure. It does now not rely at the thought of evolution. It's a reality. Theories would not have evidence which best applies in arithmetic. Theories have proof. There isn't any proof of a god of any sort. Theories are falsifiable. That's a characteristic, now not a malicious program. If proof is produced that suggests one other thought or this one demands amendment, then we discovered some thing and are grateful for it. Religion does now not have that characteristic. And it's requred. So production through a god isn't equipped of being a thought. Since the invention of mitochodrial DNA ancestry can also be discovered through genetic mapping and we do not want bones to confirm the speculation. Theories make predictions and can be utilized to broaden different theories and open up totally new traces of inquiry. The thought of evolution is priceless due to the fact that is works, now not always due to the fact that it's reality. Evolution is reality however ordinary choice is a thought. Bottom line is that it really works. God as an evidence does not paintings for us and isn't relatively an reply in that regard. Its an excuse to not believe approximately it.

Answer 3

You forgot to add this bit to your first quote.

"Evolutionists of all stripes believe, however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted from periods before about 600 million years ago. One good reason might be that many of these animals had only soft parts to their bodies: no shells or bones to fossilize. If you are a creationist you may think that this is special pleading. My point here is that, when we are talking about gaps of this magnitude, there is no difference whatever in the interpretations of 'punctuationists' and 'gradualists'."



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Answer 4

Darwin's quote was foolish. Bones do not just fossilize. There must be certain criteria needed for a bone to fossilize, I wont get into it as my answer would too long. When something dies it decays and over time, even the bones will turn to dust. Only a very small percentage of organisms actually get fossilized, so its no surprise that we dont find a ton of fossils everywhere. That basically counters all of your quotes and your ridiculois claim. Try looking for 21st century scientific quotes, instead of what Darwin was saying way back when. Even the one from 1996 is outdated as science changes fast.

Answer 5

Hey genius, your quotes from Darwin are from the last century, when 'transitional fossils' weren't abundant. We live in 2012 where there are numerous collections of many fossils of man and homo genus, comprehensive and fully explainable. Visit a museum once in a while Professor Down Syndrome.

Do you even know about any of the people whose quotes you mined from a young earth creationist website? You just saw 'university' and 'doctor' and thought it must make sense. Let me clarify things for yer - 99% of the scientific community worldwide agree evolution is a fact. It doesn't matter if you 'believe' in it or not, it's not a faith, it's a science. If you feel you have found flaws in evolution or have evidence of young earth creationism, submit it to a scientific journal to be peer reviewed and laughed at.

Answer 6

I don't know how much of those quotes you have edited, but this is actually appealing to authority, a logical fallacy. I've course i still accept evolution, it's a demonstrable fact that it occurs, that is how we have made such astounding developments in vaccines, because scientists study how the virus adapts to new surroundings. The fact that the evolutionary theory of complex organisms like us remains a theory is due to a technicality, it's accepted as fact in the scientific community.

Answer 7

Evolution is dreadfully simple the animals that have good traits survive and go on to reproduce so those winning deformities continue it's as the old saying goes survival of the fittest and while creationists ideas are theories held up by nothing other than they want it to evolution is happening around you tithe flightless birds are dying out like the dodo and the earth is warming up so cold weather animals like polar bears die while warm weather animals are thriving in these temperatures I hope this awsnsers your question and that you open your eyes

Answer 8

If creationism is correct you would have fossils of all currently existing plants and animals throughout the fossil record, from the oldest up to present.



you don't find that, so that hypothesis doesn't adequately explain the facts.

Answer 9

Ahhh... quote mining... it's almost exactly like LYING ;)



“Fact = verifiably accurate data

Law = statement which is always true under specific circumstances

Hypothesis = testable, potentially falsifiable, explanation of facts/laws

Theory = unifying framework explaining all of the above.”



“All the available evidence from any source anywhere supports permits or aligns with evolution unanimously and exclusively… there is no factual evidence against evolution but if there was that would not be evidence for creationism.”



“For evolution to be a fake the following conditions would have to be fulfilled:

> Every university in the world would have to be in on the deception.

> Every biologist would have to be a liar.

> Every teacher of science would have to be in on it.

> And most of the other sciences too.

> The majority of drugs could NOT have been invented…

> Nor would they work.

And so on…”



You believe you were created by an invisible desert psychopath 6000 years ago.

Good onya mate.

~

Answer 10

Uhhh.....this is the Religion & Spirituality forum. It sounds like you are asking biology questions.



If you actually want replies to this series of dishonest quote-mines, they are all debunked at the TalkOrigins.org website. Read and learn. (But I doubt that you are interested, right?)

Answer 11

If we didn't have a single fossil, the DNA evidence alone overwhelmingly establishes evolution as a fact. Your quote mining amounts to nothing but hand waving.

Answer 12

I don't "believe in" evolution any more than I "believe in" gravity. I accept them both based on the evidence.



Nice dishonest quote mining, by the way.

Answer 13

That is some lovely cherry picking. At least two of those quotes have a "but" followed by an explanation

Answer 14

I sure do. You've just quoted(mined) examples of what makes sciece great...twe are always learning and adding to our store of knowledge...that science is not dead and static like rrligion...thanks

Answer 15

You haven't given me any reason to stop accepting the fact of evolution

Answer 16

Quote mining is incredibly dishonest. These are all out of context.



Shameful.



If you had evidence for your beliefs you wouldn't have to rely on this garbage.

Answer 17

I bet you started to look for those "quotes" before opening a biology book.

Answer 18

Ah, quote mining. I see you've taken creationist debate 101.

Answer 19

Yeap I still believe in evolution but I wasn't home schooled.

Answer 20

Quote mining at its best. What website did you copy this from?



Evolution is a fact and it is observable.

Answer 21

Lying for Jesus is still lying.

Answer 22

You've been listening to too much fundamentalist trash talk.

Answer 23

I never believed in evolution.