CREATIONISTS: Which theory better explains the progressive FOSSIL RECORD: Creationism or Evolutionary theory?

Question

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Answer 1

Jeanmarie -

Here you go, hon (sources). As you can clearly see, we have thousands of transitional fossils, so your claim was simply false, as you probably already suspected. As far as things like "fins to feet or arms", besides the extensive fossil record, we have plenty of living animals like that.

Now that your argument has been, well, torpedoed, I assume you'll do the honest thing and admit that you were wrong. I also hope that the rest of us will do the honest thing and graciously accept her admission.

Oh, and Jeanmarie, you probably will want to avoid whoever told you that lie that there are no transitional fossils. I'm sure you don't want other well-meaning people taken in by the creationist professional liars, right?

Answer 2

These are some of the strangest arguments I've ever heard. Is it possible you people dont get the point of evolution? It's a process taking millions of years. One change at a time that has to be selected and reproduced through the generations, and there are records that show it. Look at the cro-magnon skull circa 35,000-10,000. You can see it's a species of man decidedly diffrent than others of the world at that time. Then gradually You can see the brow straighten, and the size of the head decrease, as the species adapt to their new environment. Anyone looking for proof of this, look up the history of the basques. You can find all kinds of information on them.
But seriously- "Show me a progressive fossil" ? You're making yourselves look dumb. It's not Progressive fossil- Theory It's Progressive- Fossil Theory. The theory that through the ages fossils slowly progress. You cant look at one fossil, and say "Aha! I see what happened! This T-rex was standing around chewing on a compy, when it hit him- "I want to fly" So he sprouted wings and off he flew. PLEASE know what the hell you're talking about before you open your mouth!.
Besides, Why cant you meet a middle ground? The Bible's full of metaphors. Jesus used them all the time. Is it not possible that Genesis is a metaphor for God's creation of the world? Do you think maybe he understood an animals need for adaptation, and compensated accordingly? I like to think God knew what he was doing thanks.

Answer 3

The "progressive" fossil layer is loaded with unsupported presuppositions. For one thing there are no intermediate fossils where it can be demonstrated that one type of animal like a reptile or amphibian was on it's way to becoming a mammal.

Sure, scientists have looked at a skeleton of a bird and guessed that certain similarities between that skeleton and the skeleton of a reptile COULD be a sign of evolution but that's pretty thin guess work to hang a whole theory on.

Another thing scientists bring to the guessing game is the idea that soil layers demonstrate a progression of evolving species. But a global flood that would suddenly create fossils in rapid succession explains those different layers just as well and perhaps better because we know that fossils have to be formed under extraordinary situations, they are not the norm.

The existence of fossilized trees that go through what scientists would call "millions of years worth" of soil layers because they were fossilized standing up is a clear indication that at least in those cases the soil layers were formed all at once and not over a long period of time.

Creationism is not a scientific theory unless you present it in the form of "intelligent design theory". That theory, like the theory of evolution has some evidence to support it but like the theory of evolution it doesn't meet the test of the scientific method since we can't perform repeatable, observable, and measurable experiments that demonstrate in a laboratory that our theory is supported by such verifiable data.

See the Evolution Cruncher on the Free Stuff page @ http://web.express56.com/~bromar/ for more information on the flaws in the theory of evolution.

Answer 4

Creations theory better fits with the fossil record.

To many times we find fossil in different strata levels, or we find fish fossils up in mountains or weird places for certain types of fossils.

Today's evolutionary theory does not explain those findings very well and sort of brush it off.

However creationist theory can and does have an explanations for such phenomena. As well as the rest of the fossil record.

Answer 5

*sigh*

The fossil record has been known about for centuries before Darwin. It clearly demonstrates the appearance of different species in different epochs. The only "creationist" explanation for this is that different species were independently created, and then went extinct, for each epoch.

From well before Darwin, evolutionary theory proposed that species in each epoch were the modified progeny of earlier species. Darwin's genius was to discover a mechanism by which this could occur - natural selection. Further discoveries in molecular biology and genetics have confirmed and elaborated on Darwin's discovery.

Answer 6

I would think that based on the first answer the following is a good question.

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Answer 7

Evolutionary theory. I am a Catholic.
Peace!

Answer 8

Since I believe in both theories, that's hard to answer!

Answer 9

You, like everyone else, don't seem to understand the Creationism argument. It's not with EVOLUTION it's with RANDOMENESS.

It's about design by the mind Vs. design by anarchy

The A-Bomb can ONLY be made by INTELLEGENT DESIGN because the ISOTOPES of Uranium and Plutonium don't exists in naturally formed states beyond traces, if at all. They MUST be REFINED.

Nature doesn't evolve A-BOMBS.

Thus, the BURDEN of EVIDENCE for the likelihood of CREATIONISM vastly out weights the burden of proof for RANDOM events when it comes to ultra complex things.

Once the NATURAL period table of elements stops, MANS takes over and designs Californium.

In you dig holes all you like, I doubt you'll even come up with one molecule of Californium in a natural state.

Answer 10

I"m guessing you want me to answer This question as you gave reference to many.


With all the millions of fossil's in our world, show me one that has a evolutionary change from gills to lungs. OR fins to feet or arms. Some transitionary step would be good.
There isn't one. There should be at least thousands. But not one, why?
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