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Common Creationist Complaint: How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over hundreds of millions of years?
Common Complaint: How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame? Professor Gould wrote, “the maintenance of stability within species must be considered as a major evolutionary problem.” [1] Logical Fallacies: Straw Man: The comment “evolution has changed worms into…
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Common Creationist Complaint: Where are all the transitional fossils?
Common Complaint: Where are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? Darwin noted the problem and it still remains. The evolutionary family trees in textbooks are based on imagination, not fossil evidence. Famous Harvard paleontologist (and evolutionist), Stephen Jay Gould, wrote, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the…