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You missed this part:I was walking across campus with this other girl, and she picks up a leaf.
"Oh look god made this for us, to represent the trinity!" ( such evidence strengthens our conviction
Then why, i said, does it have five points?
"Oh it means god made it for to represent....."
( no wonder some of us are not impressed by evidence or faith)
You missed this part:
"Its like God presenting you with a conviction (faith) about the origin of the universe (God did it) and then presented you with physical evidence that supports this conviction, but even without the physical evidence that supports the conviction the conviction would still be true."
The only difference is time: the original mammal species lived however-many millions of years ago, so its descendants have had quite a bit of time to speciate and differentiate. The descendants of fruit flies who lived last week, however, have not had such a long time. We'd expect the descendants of an organism which lived millions of years ago to be more diverse than the descendants of an organism which lived last week.I think there is a big difference here. Don't you?
The key here is virtually unchanged. The current species are not the same, they just aren't anatomically very differerent. Let's say that the environment, or at least all of the environemnts, had not remained fairly stable over this time period. What would have happened? They would have gone the way of the (non avian- for AVET) dinosaur. Just like for the majority of species and genera that have lived on earth.
Had there been only two animals on the face of the whole earth -- a lion and a mountain lion -- I would guess and say that God would have told them to reproduce after their own kind.
Who says they haven't changed? These are broad taxa, not specific species. 350 million years ago, there was a single species that is ancestral to all modern shark species. Even if that original species survived today*, there are still 440 other species of shark - sharks have indeed evolved. The same is true for turtles, rays, and skates - these words refer to broad categories of modern species, not to a single species which has existed for however many millions of years.
See above. Cyanobacteria doesn't apply to just a single species of bacteria.
Horseshoe crabs are likely fossil species, I'll grant you that. A single, isolated example, you'll notice. Of all the millions of species, how many are given the informal moniker of 'fossil species'? A handful. As improbable as it is for any one species to become a fossil species, it's nonetheless probable that we'd find one, given the enormous number of species and fossils uncovered.
I submit that the existence of 170 million year old fossils is evidence enough that their environment was sufficiently stable.
