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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
- Subject: Re: Duane T. Gish, Ph. D.
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- trott@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Trott) writes:
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- >CLAIM #1: "According to evolutionists it would have taken 100
- >million years for a fish to have evolved from an invertebrate. But
- >there is absolutely no fossil evidence showing that this took place."
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- I don't know the state of our evidence on the specific point. However,
- I do know that some marine environments make fossilization highly
- unlikely. (Not handwaving, but, I am told, measurable fact.)
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- In fact, fossilization is a rare event in most environments:
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- [Concerning pre-Eocene mammals in Europe] "There is little evidence
- to go on. All that is known from the late Cretaceous - a period
- between 100 million and 65 million years ago - can be traced to a
- single molar from southern France and a few tooth fragments from
- Portugal. The record is utterly blank for the early Paleocene..."
- -- Scientific American (Feb92 p.66)
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- On an entire continent, that's two teeth in somewhere on the order of
- 40 million years. If you care to read the article, it talks about a
- rare geological mousetrap that occured in Germany 50 million years
- ago. On the evidence, these traps are unlikely. So, we know a
- relatively huge amount about what was alive at that time, and we know
- (relatively) zip from huge tracts of time before and after.
- --
- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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