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What is the strongest field of study offered to promote the claim that
evolution is a `scientific fact'; Paleontology? It is claimed to
represent direct proof that lower orders have evolved into higher
orders. It follows on the pretext that the earth has harbored life for
600 million years.
It further conjectures that there have existed two
billion species of organism during this 600,000,000 years. It is
presently stated that there exists two million species of organisms.
What this tells us is that of 2 billion species of organisms, today,
99.9 % of them are extinct. Of all living organisms only one tenth of
one percent of them currently exist.
How many specimens comprise the fossil record? A hundred, five
hundred, a hundred thousand? There are billions upon billions of
fossils that are of highly advanced forms in their complexity. They are
found in the layers of sediment designated as the cambrian period
(70-570m) to the present surface.
Ironically, of billions of specimens, no obvious
transitional forms are traced. Some would have us accept the
thesis based upon a few oddities such as the winged reptile which is
accepted as no more than a small reptile from the age of the dinosaurs
sprawled above the remains of Archaeopertyx.
Further wonder comes to play in the study
of the cambrian period alone. Everyone of the major
forms of invertebrate are found here. Yet, not only are there no
evidences of transitional forms developing into these complexities,
there are no forms at all in the pre-cambrian fauna. Mr. Charles
Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species [vol.2 6th ed., p. 49, "As by
this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed.
We do not find them imbedded in the crust of the earth? Why is all nature
not in confusion instead of being as we see them, well-defined species?
Geological research does not yeild the infinately many fine gradations
between past and present species reguired by the theory; and this is
the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued against it.
The explanation lies, however, in the extreme imperfection of the
geological record." In the April issue of Life Magizine 1982, Francis
Hitching quoted Prof. N. Heribert-Nilsson: "It is not even possible to
make a caricature of evolution out of paleobiological facts. The fossil
material is now so complete that the lack of transitional series cannot
be explained by the scarcity of the material. The deficiences are real,
they will never be filled."
In summation, if evolution is a "fact of science" and science is
unable to conclusively prove beyound a shadow of doubt the results of
such abundances of resources, it would seem apparent that science is
not factual; but is, more rather, biased towards it's own interests.
........ et al