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"They are not, as a rule,
led up to by a sequence of almost imperceptibly
changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual in evolution.
A great many sequences
of two or a few temporally.intergrading.species
are known, but even at this level most species appear without known 'immediate'
ancestors,
and really long, perfectly complete sequences of numerous species are exceedingly
rare. Sequences of genera,
immediately successive
or nearly so at that level.(not
necessarily represented by the exact populations involved in the transition
from one genus to the next), are more
common and may be longer than known sequences of species. But the appearance
of a new genus in the record is usually more abrupt than the appearance
of a new species: the gaps involved are generally larger, that is, when
a new genus appears in the record it is usually well separated morphologically
from the most nearly similar other known genera. This phenomenon
becomes more universal and more intense as the hierarchy
of categories
is ascended.
Gaps among known species are sporadic
and often small. Gaps among known orders, clans, and phyla
are systematic
and almost always large."
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Prof. J. B. Waterhouse,
Department of Geology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Inaugural Lecture,
1980.."But how
good is the geological
record? I have already mentioned that the ordinary viewpoint of evolution
held by most
paleontologists
favours gradual
incremental
change. The fossil record, they say, is too incomplete to take seriously.
And, they say, you cannot prove a gap. But of course you can prove
a gap, especially if clines
occurred. If there is a break in the record it must be possible to detect
the break. The main point about breaks is that, if they were really random,
as proposed by Darwin, they must have been plugged by one hundred and fifty
years of work. But the gaps have not been plugged. They still persist;
yet authorities still plead the cause of failure of preservation. Such
authorities forget that if there is a million to one chance
of one specimen
of a population being preserved and then if that species lived 5-15 million
years, we therefore will get 5-15 times the population fossilized. The
trouble may perhaps have lain more truthfully in our failure to find or
describe the material. It is special pleading.(to
offer reasons for or against something).to
rely on gaps and it is special pleading to propose inadequate preservation.
We would do better to look at what the
record really says."
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Ronald R. West, Ph.D., paleoecology
and geology, Assistant Professor of Paleobiology
at Kansas State University, 'Paleoecology and uniformitarianism',.Compass,
vol. 45, May, 1968."Contrary
to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian
theory of evolution because it is this theory.(there
are several).which
we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular
reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory."
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'Weird Wonders: Was the
Cambrian Explosion a
Big Bang Or
a Whimper?'.T.
Beardsley,.Scientific
American, June, 1992, pages 30,31."The
rate of appearance of new life forms demand a mechanism other than natural
selection for its explanation."
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Physicist Freeman Dyson."I
do not feel like an alien in this Universe. The more I examine the Universe
and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that
the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming.".(*)
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Prof. E. J. H. Corner, Professor
of Tropical Botany, Cambridge University, UK, 'Evolution' in 'Contemporary
Botanical Thought', Anna M. Macleod and L. S. Cobley, editors, Oliver and
Boyd, for the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 1961, p.97."I
still think that, to the unprejudiced,
the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. If, however,
another explanation could be found for this hierarchy of classification,
it would be the knell
of the theory of evolution. Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed
and a palm have come from the same ancestry and have we any evidence for
this assumption?
The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that most
would break down before an inquisition.(investigative
questioning)."
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J. R. Norman, Assistant
Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum of Natural History, London,
'Classification and pedigrees: fossils' in 'A History of Fishes', Dr. P.
H. Greenwood, editor, third edition, British Museum of Natural History,
London, 1975, p. 343."The
geological record has so far provided no evidence as to the origin of the
fishes and shortly after the time when fish like fossils first made their
appearance in the rocks; the Cyclostomes.(or
Agnatha), Elasmobranchiomorphs and
Bony Fishes are not only already differentiated from each other and firmly
established, but are represented by a number of diverse and often specialized
types, a fact suggesting that each group had already enjoyed a respectable
antiquity.(ancient
times)."
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