>Since this transitional form has been found, the YECs will now claim that
>there are two more gaps in the fossil record of transitional forms, one
>before this creature and one after. So the more transitional forms that are
>found, the more gaps the fossil record has.
Since fossils are discrete entities and there is a finite -- albeit
potentially large -- number of them, the evidence for evolution the
creationists seek -- a continuum -- is mathematically impossible. Maybe
creationists don't accept Cantor either :-).
Bill Hamilton
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