So from what I gather, you are saying that the fossil record is incomplete
and the modern fish genera remain to be found. In that case, why can't the
evolutonist say that the transitional forms remain to be found. It seems to
me that you are wanting it both ways, incomplete when it comes to the
fossils you need but complete when it comes to the fossils the evolutionists
needs.
Heads you win, tails I lose.
>Not sure of the point you are making. The Coelecanth, an 'animal' by
>normal definition, is alive today. although considered 'primitive' at one
>time and an index fossil and possibly a transitional fish to the amphibian
>world contradicts your assertion that there is not one animal alive today
>that died out millions of years ago.
The coelacanthiform, Latimera, the animal you refer to above is in the
species Latimera. Latimera has no fossil record and thus is NOT an index
fossil as you state. In order to be an index fossil one must first have a
fossil record. There are other coelacanthiformes which are index fossils
but the one found off Madagascar is bigger, has certain internal structures
that are not found in the fossil forms and thus is not what is found in the
fossil record. What you read in books like Boys,Evolution: Fact, Fraud or
Faith, p. 138-139 is totally false. He writes:
"Evolutionists taught for many years that a bony fish called the
'coelacanth' that swam int he seas in abundance about '400 million years
ago,' was a perfect intermediate. They suggested that it lurched upon land
searching for food and gradually stayed longer until it adapted to the new
environment. Then it disappeared about seventy million years ago until
1938. Then one was pulled from the waters off the coast of Madgascar,
exactly like the fossils fo '400 million years ago! No evolution!"
Not true. The one found in Madagascar is 5 ft long and the fossil ones are
much smaller and are in different genera.
>
>By the way, I haven't the faintest idea why you picked 4000 years ago. I
>certainly never advocated that date and it falls within the period after
>writing began
What date do you prefer?
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm