Colter
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Allow me to illustrate --
"stories easy enough to tell - but they are not science" - Collin Patterson - atheist evolutionist - scientist
Collin Patterson - Paleontologist British Museum of Natural history
On April 10, 1979, Patterson replied to the author (Sunderland) in a most candid letter as follows:
April 10, 1979 Letter from Colin Patterson to Sunderland
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“ 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 paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record.
You say thatI 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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Irrefutable posts that you find "inconvenient" do not vanish each time you fail to refute them.
This may come as a surprise to some evolutionists.
In this case it is Your own diehard atheist evolutionist scientist - giving the "evidence" that you find "inconvenient".
IN blind faith evolutionism "all news is good news" and when you find something that is not good news - and you can't refute it ... shoot the messenger??
See what I mean????? The guy just keeps reposting the same straw man. Bob is constitutionally incapable of addressing why there is NO evidence of a singular YEC event. To the contrary, the earth contains with it the evidence of a very long past with many kinds of plants and animals.
This is why they say that "the internet is where religions go to die."
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