Stephen E. Jones

Creation/Evolution Quotes: Fossil Record

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Fossil Record #1

  1. Not Darwinian
  2. Gradualism
  3. Innovations

Fossil Record #3: Gaps in

  1. Gaps are real
  2. Major gaps have not been filled
  3. Lack of transitional forms between major groups
  4. Intermediates hypothesized by Darwin missing
  5. Cambrian Explosion
  6. Mammals
  7. Explanations for

Fossil Record #2: Sudden appearance & stasis

  1. Sudden appearance
  2. Stasis

Fossil Record #4 - Transitional fossils

  1. "The number of intermediate varieties ... must be truly enormous"
  2. Not enough transitional fossils
  3. Functional intermediates
  4. Most not truly transitional
  5. Claimed major transitions
  6. Other claimed transitions

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