High School Biology: What's Wrong With The Truth? - Dr. G.Charles Jackson (Dr. J.)

[SanguineBullet667]

If by 'truth' you mean mythology, there's a whole lot wrong with that.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking "Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether". Henry Gee, “Return to the Planet of the Apes,” Nature, Vol. 412, 12 July 2001, p. 131.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking "We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful anything is possible - and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time." - Lord Solly Zuckerman (professor of anatomy at Birmingham U in England), Beyond The Ivory Tower, Toplinger Publications, New York, 1970, p.19

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking "...I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. - E.J.H. Corner (Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, England), “Evolution” in Anna M. MacLeod and L. S. Cobley (eds.), Contemporary Botanical Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking ...continued from last post: "Indeed the fossil record is one of discontinuities, seemingly documenting jumps (saltations) from one type of organism to a different type. This raises a puzzling question: Why does the fossil record fail to reflect the gradual change one would expect from evolution?"

Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, (New York: Basic Books, 2001), p. 14

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking "Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from one ancestral form to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series. New types often appear quite suddenly, and their immediate ancestors are absent in the geological strata. The discovery of unbroken series of species changing gradually into descending species is very rare. ... see next post

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking Ernst Mayr was a prominent Harvard biologist who also served as the director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mayr was a staunch evolutionist and atheist[93] who maintained that evolution was a fact, yet he admitted

"Even the fossil record fails to substantiate any continuity and all novelties appear in the fossil record quite suddenly."

Ernst Mayr, 1982a. Speciation and macroevolution. Evolution 36, page 1120

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking In 1980, David Woodruff wrote in the journal Science the following: "But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition.” David S. Woodruff, “Evolution: The Paleobiological View,” Science, Vol. 208, 16 May 1980, p. 716.

[slaves4christ]

In a 1977 paper titled "The Return of Hopeful Monsters", Gould wrote: "The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change....All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt." Stephen Jay Gould, "The Return of Hopeful Monsters," Natural History 86 (June/July): 22-30

[slaves4christ]

"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils" - late Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. See Dr. Walt Brown, Center For Scientific Creationism, References and Notes: Fossil Gaps

[slaves4christ]

" we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn't changed much. ... [W]e have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time." - David M. Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 50 (January 1979): 22-23, 24-25. Curator of geology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

[slaves4christ]

David B. Kitts of the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma wrote that "Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them…"

-Bert Thompson, Ph.D. and Brad Harrub, Ph.D., 15 Answers to John Rennie and Scientific American’s Nonsense—Argument #13

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking These respected evolutionary scientists say "there are no transitional fossils," the every thing you claim all fossils are. The quote comes from a paleontologist that is frustrated because he can't find evidence for his theory.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking Thank you for admitting that no fossil can used to support the evolution theory.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking .... "I will lay it on the line—there is not one such [transitional] fossil for which one could make a watertight argument. The reason is that statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record."

- Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Palaeontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London "Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems," [1984], Master Book Publishers: El Cajon CA, Fourth Edition, 1988, p89

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking "Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a palaeontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least 'show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.' ...continued in next comment...

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking umm...hello?...anybody home? Did you know that populations are made up of individuals?

What you keep trying to say is there is no evidence for any transitional forms, therefore every creature is transitional.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking If it's a "fully formed functional creature" it is by definition not a transitional fossil.

I agree there are not fully formed creatures in evolution because evolution has never happened.

[slaves4christ]

@CaffeinatedWorking

You say are all fossils are transitional fossils, which are fully formed creatures, then say there are no fully formed creatures. Thank you for disproving evolution to yourself and/or showing yourself to be completely illogical!

[heyerstandards]

About 17:00 Dr. J posts an illustration from UCBerkeley. The Berkeley website still has it posted, and their label is "slits homologous to fish gill slits." Accompanying text: "These structures are not gills..., but the fact that they are so similar to gill structures in fish at this point in development supports the idea that chicks and humans share a common ancestor with fish."

++ It's the old "humans have two bones in the forearm, so we **obviously must** be related to whales" nonsense.

[Galmozzi99]

Fraud has been systemic in evolutionary history. The lack of evidence for the theory creates a frenzy to be "the one" who finally comes up with something concrete. The irony is there are more documented frauds than the few disputed transitional forms.

[MythicalManMoth]

@Galmozzi99 Actually, every fossil is transitional. :o)

[slaves4christ]

@MythicalManMoth Funny, and there are elephants running through your living room, but they are going so fast you just can't see them.

There should be billions of transitional fossils, but all we have are fossils of fully formed functional creatures.

[ndzoko]

@slaves4christ ; Your education level is so low, you don`t even know what a" transitional fossil" is. All fossils are transitional. That`s what evolution is all about .A transitional fossil is any fossil which gives us information about a transition from one species to another.

[snigglefritz12345]

@ndzoko All fossils are transitional? Big news to paleontologists, they are still scrambling to find valid, undisputed transitional forms.

[Stianchez]

More!!! This is brilliant!