[OT] Plato's Pub and Philosophical Society

[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by raynor:
The major problem with evolution is that the fossil record doesn't support it. At best, you can support micro-evolution--changes within one species. But there just isn't satisfactory fossil evidence to support the supposed transitional species. Without any evidence for macro evolution, you are left with waiting a million years. With a whole this large in evolution, creationism is equally valid.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to make a fossil? A creature has to die in mud and then be covered in mud before the scavengers move in (simplified, I know, but you get the point). There are millions of species that will never have a fossil record due to their environment. For example, a million years from now there will not be any fossil record of the buffalo (or just about any mammal currently living in australia). That doesn't mean that they don't exist.

Overall, we should cosider ourselves lucky that we have the fossils that we do. It is ludicrous to expect a member of every species to kindly travel to a mudpatch and drown itself so we can fill out our historical record. We work with what we have.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.