The junk is believing all paleontology is an atheist science.
Which is not what Christians think about paleontology... rather we are able to admit what even the atheist paleontologist admit to as in the case of Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural history and author of their text book on evolutionism.
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Colin Patterson (Senior paleontologist at the
British Natural History Museum and author of the Museum’s
general text on evolution)
April 10, 1979 Letter from Colin Patterson to Sunderland
“ I
fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew
of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them.
"You suggest that an artist should be used to visualise such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader?
"I wrote the text of my book four years ago. If I were to write it now, I think the book would be rather different. Gradualism is a concept I believe in, not just because of Darwin’s authority, but because my understanding of genetics seems to demand it.
"Yet Gould and the American Museum people are
hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a palaeontologist myself, I am much
occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record.
"You say that I should at least show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.
I will lay it on the line-
there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.[
The reason is that statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record. Is Archaeopteryx the ancestor of all birds? Perhaps yes, perhaps no
there is no way of answering the question.
It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection.
But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test. So, much as I should like to oblige you by jumping to the defence of gradualism, and fleshing out the
transitions between the major types of animals and plants, I find myself a bit
short of the intellectual justification necessary for the job “
[Ref: Patterson, personal communication. Documented in Darwin’s Enigma, Luther Sunderland, Master Books, El Cajon, CA, 1988, pp. 88-90.]
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So that is the frank confession of a true atheist believer in evolutionism as he confronts some of the "inconvenient details" about the limits of paleontology that many of his own atheist friends had hoped to keep out of sight.