EVOLUTION - PART 10(copied from Mark Cahill's
Book One Heartbeat Away.)
The Missing Link
If humans evolved from apes the fossil record should reveal a multitude of transitional forms.
And since humans are said to have evolved relatively recently, the fossils would have had less time to decay and should therefore be plentiful.
So, what have scientists found? Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, Java Man, Peking Man, Neanderthal Man, and Lucy, are all supposed to be "missing links" but did you know each one of these have been disproved scientifically. Yet they were included in my schoolbooks and though scientifically disproved - many can still be seen in textbooks today.
The "missing link" is still missing and will forever remain missing, because the rule holds for humans as for all other life forms: there are no transitional forms. Everything appears in the fossil record suddenly and perfectly formed.
Again, while there is plenty of evidence for microevolution , (adaptation within a species) , macroevolution - the supposed development of one species into another - has no evidence to support it. None. Scientists have found no transitional fossils and no missing links.
Dr. Colin Patterson, director of the British Museum of Natural History, and a highly respected evolutionist, wrote a book about evolution. When asked why his book didn't contain any illustrations of transitional fossils, Dr. Patterson, who has seven million fossils in his museum replied:
"I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustrations of evolutionary transitions in my book - if I knew of any, fossils or living, I certainly would have included it..... I will lay it on the line. There is not one such fossil for which one might make a watertight argument.."
Nils Eldridge, a leading
expert in vertebrate fossils decided to honestly
weigh the evidence. Here is his conclusion:
"No wonder paleontologists shied away from evolution for so long. It never seems to happen. Assiduous collecting up cliff faces yield zigzags, minor oscillations, and the very occasional slight accumulation of change - over millions of years, at a rate too slow to account for all the prodigious change that has occurred in evolutionary history. When we do see the introduction of evolutionary novelty, it usually shows up with a bang, and often with no firm evidence that the fossils didn't evolve elsewhere! Evolution cannot forever be going on somewhere else yet that is how the fossil record has struck many a forlorn paleontologist looking to learn something about evolution."
Wow! What a couple of statements : they just said there is no evidence to back up the theory of evolution.
So, after doing a bit of research to discover the truth, I did "learn something about evolution"
I learned that the evidence just isn't there to put my faith in. How about you?
next post 1st July
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