No evidence against evolution

Is there evidence against evolution in the fossil record?

The truth is that macroevolution runs on the god-of-the-gaps principle.

I don't know if our pastor sensed that his description of God as craftsman was meeting a certain tide of skepticism, but no matter...He walked over to the altar and picked up a flower from the vase.

"Look at the beauty of a flower. The Bible tells us that even Solomon in all his glory was never arrayed as one of these. And do you know what? Not a single person in the world can tell us what makes a flower bloom. All those scientists in their laboratories, the ones who can split the atom and build jet planes and televisions, well, not one of them can tell you how a plant makes flowers." and why should they be able to? "Flowers, just like you, are the work of God."

I was impressed. No one argued, no one wisecracked. We filed out of the church like good little boys and girls, ready for our First Communion the next day. And I never thought of it again, until this symposium on developmental biology. Sandwiched between two speakers working on more fashionable topics in animal development was Elliot M. Meyerowitz, a plant scientist at Caltech...I sat there with an ear-to-ear grin on my face...Meyerowitz, you see, had explained how plants made flowers.

The four principal parts of a flower...are actually modified leaves. This is one of the reasons why plants can produce reproductive cells just about anywhere...Plants can produce new flowers anywhere they can grow new leaves. Somehow, however, the plant must find a way to "tell" an ordinary cluster of leaves that they should develop into floral parts. That's where Meyerowitz's lab came in.

Several years of patient genetic study had isolated a set of mutants that could form only two or three of the four parts. By crossing the various mutants. his team was able to identify four genes that have to be turned on or off in a specific pattern to produce a normal flower. Each of these genes, in turn, sets of a series of signals that "tell" the cells of a brand-new bud to develop as sepals or petals rather than ordinary leaves. The details are remarkable, and the interactions between the genes are fascinating. To me...the scientific details were just the icing on the cake. The real message was, "Father Murphy, you were wrong." God doesn't make a flower. The floral induction genes do.

Miller K "Finding Darwin's God" (Harper 2007) p 260-262

What? If anything, it's creationism that works on the God of the gaps principle, since every missing link, every as-yet unsolved problem in evolutionary biology is taken as proof that God did it, only to be later forgotten about when a discovery / plausible explanation is found.

Consider the following comments from Ken Miller:

It's what is not there that counts.

Anyone can dig something out of the ground, assign a number to it, then play connect-the-dots, where they draw lines and claim the dots are indicative of one big process.

The truth is that macroevolution runs on the god-of-the-gaps principle.

We have at least one creationist here who admits that he knows of no evidence against evolution. We have another that claims the fossil record itself is evidence against evolution?

Is there evidence against evolution in the fossil record?

Anyone else like to weigh in? Is there any evidence against evolution anywhere?

Well "Science" moves each day closer to "the forest" view for the tree of life and farther and farther away from the single trunk tree of life.

Is there evidence against evolution in the fossil record?