Evolution Facts.?

Question

Why does the fossil record support CREATION-Carl Sagan:"The fossil evidence could be consistant with the idea of a GREAT DESIGNER"?

Answer 1

The fossil record supports evolution and not creation.

Answer 2

If there's one thing I *despise* it's quote mining ... deliberatly misquoting somebody out of context to make it sound like they're saying something different. The worst example of this is creationists who misquote a scientist deliberately to make it sound like he's saying the precise *opposite* of what he said. It's a cheap, sleazy tactic that reinforces the image that creationists "got no game."

Here's the full Carl Sagan quote:

"The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a great designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. But this notion is a little disconcerting. Each plant and animal is exquisitely made. Should not a supremely competent designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start? The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient designer (although not with a designer of more remote and indirect temperment)." - (See source.)


To answer your question, ... NO the fossil record does not support creation.

Answer 3

It's funny, but I just finished reading Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion" and he mentions this very Carl Sagan quote.

It turns out that Sagan is misquoted by creationists. Or rather, the creationists are not giving you the whole Sagan quote. Note how in that quote it says, "...evidence COULD be consistent..." In Sagan's original writing he said it could be, but it wasn't... This isn't the place to copy and paste the entirety of Carl Sagan's thoughts, just keep in mind that you can make it sound like anyone said anything if you just misquote them the right way.

The other thing to remember about the fossil record is that the environmental conditions necessary for a fossil to form are very very rare. In most cases when an animal falls down and dies, it's body just rots and the bones are destroyed over a few seasons by the elements. That is why the fossil record is incomplete. People who don't want to accept that evolution could have happened frequently point out the gaps in the fossil record as a way to disprove evolution. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Answer 4

SWTSGR, now that you have lied ( I will probably get another violation for this ) and misquoted Carl Sagan out of context, thus besmirching a great man and scientist, I must misquote you.

SWTSGR has been quoted as saying; " The fossil record supports the theory of evolution by natural selection and any talk of a GREAT DESIGNER is just poppycock "!

Answer 5

meaningless, if you define the "great designer" as something that designed/created everything, then of course the fossil record is "consistant with the idea of a GREAT DESIGNER", by your defintion everything is consistent with a "GREAT DESIGNER", it's meaningless as there is no proof of any such thing

Answer 6

do you know what what clear this all up for me
if the great designer just took 1 minute of his time to just
poke his head through the clouds
that would pretty much clear it up for me
and you would not need to rewrite the history books.
I would relabel all the theory books and call them something like
the odes of history until he stuck his head through the clouds

Answer 7

But the Church claims that they were placed there by God less than a few thousand years ago - but the science says over millions of years