<<Apparently, you have not been listening. First you told me that there were
no transitional forms I told you there were a lot of them. You challenged
me to prove that there were any. I feel that I did prove my point in the
case of the whale and the fish/amphibians.>>
Well, maybe science for the hearing impaired goes both ways. <g> For as we all
know the issue is whether these are true "transitions" (we all agree there is
change, of course).
I don't feel you've proved your point. But maybe Ito will bounce me from the
jury.
<<My problem is that what the
apologetical books have told me about geology and paleontology have not been
correct.>>
This is no doubt true for some "apologetical books." But I don't believe your
broad brush covers, say, Michael Denton, Phillip Johnson (your protestations
to the contrary notwithstanding) or Gordon Rattray Taylor. The latter is
especially apt:
"Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, which has stood as the one
great biological law comparable with the laws of physics for more than a
century, is crumbling under attack. Biologists are discovering more and more
features which it does not seem able to explain...." [The Great Evolution
Mystery]
In contrast to Taylor, the evolutionary "apologetic books" are just as rank in
failing to deal with the evident problems.
A nice bit of irony here. On Saturday I was doing a book signing at a local
Barnes & Noble for my novel. I gave a little spiel about the motivations
underlying the rise of evolutionism, and noted the usual skeptical looks from
some in the crowd. A young man challenged me on the idea of a "story" being
used in place of scientific fact.
"Evolution is not a story?" I asked. "Then how do you explain this?" I stepped
around the shelf and retrieved a new printing of "Origin of Species" (I had
found this by chance a few days before as I cased the story, and hoped I could
use it). On the cover was, you're not going to believe this, the old "line of
ascent" drawing--a chimp at the end of the line, several hominids, and finally
"man." I held this up and said, "Then why are they still propogating this
fantasy?"
To his credit, he did not say "An abundance of transitional forms."
Jim