In fact, there are no fossil ancestors at all for complex invertebrates or fish. That alone is fatal to the theory of evolution. The fossil record shows that evolution never happened.
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Good, so when you get sick from some bacteria, we'll give you the old antibiotics, because as you say, evolution never happens, and those antibiotics worked just fine 50 years ago.
What, those antibiotics aren't working? Sorry, evolution never happens, that's all you get.
lol.
Instead of delivering an argument he merely asserts his own ignorance.
As always refer to Prof. Dawkins chapter "Missing link: Missing no longer" in "The greatest show on earth".
But reading is hard, I know!
I don't believe in something I can't see.
You don't believe in something tangible, numerous and well documented.
"In fact, there are no fossil ancestors at all for complex invertebrates or fish."
Don't you just love how he prefaces this with "In fact"? As of that would make the following statement true(it doesn't). The REAL fact is, there are many(possibly thousands) of fossil ancestors for complex invertebrates and fish. Saying there isn't is like saying there's no such thing as France because you've never been there. Your personal ignorance does not a fact make.
"That alone is fatal to the theory of evolution."
Wrong again. Not only is it NOT fatal- by deign of being complete horseshit in the first place- but even if it WAS true, we would still have all that OTHER evidence for evolution! Such as things evolving over and over again in laboratory conditions. Or viruses, weeds and pests evolving immunities. Or the vast reams of genetic data that establishes links between everything from species to phyla in 100% concordance with the scientific method and the phylogenetic tree. Or the entire process of domestication. Or the very clear and unambiguous fossil lineages linking dinosaurs and birds, terrestrial mammals and whales, small forest herbivores and large plains-dwelling horses, hippopotamus-like semi-aquatic mammals and elephants, and, of course, great apes and hominids leading all the way up to Neanderthals and Humanity.
"The fossil record shows that evolution never happened."
The fossil record begs to differ. It shows that evolution is CONSTANTLY happening. Even so-called "living fossils" such as the Coelacanth are vastly different than their ancestral forms.
Fish ancestors:
Haikouella lanceolata:image
Pikaia gracilens:image
Metaspriggina walcotti:
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Haikouichthys ercaicunensis:image
Complex invertebrates:
Anomalocaris canadensis:
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Dactylioceras commune:image
Flexicalymene meeki:
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Pneumodesmus newmani:image
The funny thing is even if his basic assertion that there are no (known) ancestors for complex invertebrates or fish were 100% true, it still wouldn't be fatal to evolution (I had to throw "known" in there was his basic assertion makes sense).
It would simply be an open question. You cannot falsify something through negative evidence. You need positive evidence, such as finding a bunny rabbit in the Cambrian strata, to falsify something.
This negative evidence gets overwhelmed when placed against the thousands of pieces of positive evidence for evolution.
"In fact, there are no fossil ancestors at all for complex invertebrates or fish."
Well...in your world that is probably correct. But in the world of museums, Departments of Natural history at Universities, etc....those sorts of things actually do exist. No, you wont find them in the fellowship hall of your church. Nor at the mall. Or McDonalds. That doesnt mean they dont exists, you just dont realize they do.
In fact, there are no fossil ancestors at all for complex invertebrates or fish.
Say what?
Did you even fucking bother to look?
All you have to do to see clear evidence of evolution is to track the fossil evidence of the shark from Megalodon to now. You'll see a pattern of adaptations and physical changes (in size, for instance), the demonstrate how the species became smaller and more streamlined in order to adapt to changes in water temperature and food availability.
This is just willful ignorance and desperation created by trying to hold onto a religious world view that has long since become obsolete.
Holly hell and a hand grenade. I tried reading that crap, I am a geologist, I got less than three paragraphs in before...
I can't describe it. The closest I can come to vocalizing the sensation is; the ignorance reached a critical mass, slapped me across the face and left me stunned.
So, we're just going to ignore the presence of Mosiosaur, Plesiosaur, and Ichtyosaur fossils now? What about Trilobites and Ammonites? And all of the other species that I can't remember the name of? Not to mention Triops, which are still about (I got a tank and some eggs from Argos when I was a kid, but they didn't hatch. I think it's because my room was too cold - broken radiator and single-glazed windows, you see, really not good for the poor little blighters)
I read a couple of (now outdated and inaccurate) books as a kid and take ONE geology module this year and I still know more than this idiot. Now that is worrying.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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