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Blind faith evolutionism - guess work 'IN ACTION'
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gaylord_Simpson
G.G. Simpson -- the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis,
He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959. He was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1982.
Caught in the act
G.G. Simpson in 1951 – evolutionism is a “done deal” and horse series is one of the clearest and most convincing example.
“The history of the horse family is still one of the clearest and most convincing for showing that organisms really have evolved. . . There really is no point nowadays in continuing to collect and to study fossils simply to determine whether or not evolution is a fact. The question has been decisively answered in the affirmative.” 2 Simpson, George G. 1951. Horses. Oxford University Press.
Outright confession –
"The uniform continuous transformation of Hyracotherium into Equus, so dear to the hearts of generations of textbook writers, never happened in nature."—G.G. Simpson, Life of the Past (1953), p. 119.
"I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary stories??] has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs [in the American Museum of Natural History] is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable ..."
Niles Eldredge, as quoted in Luther D Sunderland, Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th ed. 1988, pg 78.
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From http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/horses/horse_evol.html
In the 1870's, the paleontologist O.C. Marsh published a description of newly discovered horse fossils from North America. At the time, very few transitional fossils were known, apart from Archeopteryx. The sequence of horse fossils that Marsh described (and that T.H. Huxley popularized) was a striking example of evolution taking place in a single lineage. Here, one could see the fossil species "Eohippus" transformed into an almost totally different-looking (and very familiar) descendent, Equus, through a series of clear intermediates. Biologists and interested laypeople were justifiably excited.
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Lesson learned.
Anyone tossing the creation text of their Bible under a bus based on the enthusiasm of that 1951 statement from Simpson - would have been totally undercut by that 1953 statement from Simpson.
Why hold the Bible hostage like that?
How could a 50 year fraud be accepted as IF it is an "observed sequence in nature" when in fact "it never happened in nature" and is "lamentable".
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gaylord_Simpson
G.G. Simpson -- the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis,
He was Professor of Zoology at Columbia University, and Curator of the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1945 to 1959. He was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1959 to 1970, and a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 1982.
Caught in the act
G.G. Simpson in 1951 – evolutionism is a “done deal” and horse series is one of the clearest and most convincing example.
“The history of the horse family is still one of the clearest and most convincing for showing that organisms really have evolved. . . There really is no point nowadays in continuing to collect and to study fossils simply to determine whether or not evolution is a fact. The question has been decisively answered in the affirmative.” 2 Simpson, George G. 1951. Horses. Oxford University Press.
Outright confession –
"The uniform continuous transformation of Hyracotherium into Equus, so dear to the hearts of generations of textbook writers, never happened in nature."—G.G. Simpson, Life of the Past (1953), p. 119.
"I admit that an awful lot of that [imaginary stories??] has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs [in the American Museum of Natural History] is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable ..."
Niles Eldredge, as quoted in Luther D Sunderland, Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th ed. 1988, pg 78.
========================= still nastolgic --
From http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/horses/horse_evol.html
In the 1870's, the paleontologist O.C. Marsh published a description of newly discovered horse fossils from North America. At the time, very few transitional fossils were known, apart from Archeopteryx. The sequence of horse fossils that Marsh described (and that T.H. Huxley popularized) was a striking example of evolution taking place in a single lineage. Here, one could see the fossil species "Eohippus" transformed into an almost totally different-looking (and very familiar) descendent, Equus, through a series of clear intermediates. Biologists and interested laypeople were justifiably excited.
=========================
Lesson learned.
Anyone tossing the creation text of their Bible under a bus based on the enthusiasm of that 1951 statement from Simpson - would have been totally undercut by that 1953 statement from Simpson.
Why hold the Bible hostage like that?
How could a 50 year fraud be accepted as IF it is an "observed sequence in nature" when in fact "it never happened in nature" and is "lamentable".
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