Fossil Records

[Sauron]

Originally posted by LouisBooth
"Comparitive anatomy studies "

Hmm..so how often do you find internal organs in fossils? Giving me a number will suffice thanks.

Why are internal organs suddenly the defining criteria? 

 

[randman]

I'd take a guess Sauron that otherwise the basic contention that it boils down to appearances is accurate.

 

[DrLao]

Originally posted by LouisBooth
"Comparitive anatomy studies "

Hmm..so how often do you find internal organs in fossils? Giving me a number will suffice thanks.

What makes you think that anatomy only has to do with the study of internal organs?

 

[npetreley]

Originally posted by s0uljah
Why not give them an objective scientific site for this evidence, not a biased one like talkorigins.

Oh no. You've insulted their bible.

 

[Late_Cretaceous]

Louis, do you doubt the power of forensic sciences to reconstruct a murder victim from bones found in the woods? When the police find a few human bones in a ditch they can tell you that person's age, race, gender and can even identify several pathologies. Nobody ever questions that. Skeletons can tell us a lot about the individual. IT is true that for most extinct species all we have to go on is the skeleton - but there is a lot of information in those old bones.


(ah, but where did the information come from)

 

[Morat]

  A good fossil can yield things like fur, feathers, and internal organs. There was quite a bit of excitement over a clear heart found in a dinosaur fossil.

 

[LouisBooth]

"What makes you think that anatomy only has to do with the study of internal organs?"

I never said that, I just asked a question no one has yet to answer.

"Louis, do you doubt the power of forensic sciences to reconstruct a murder victim from bones found in the woods? "

nope, but when you add a few "million" years in I think it would be pretty impossible for them to do.

"There was quite a bit of excitement over a clear heart found in a dinosaur fossil."

rocking! Now someone that actually addressed what I asked...and it only took 6 or so posts..wow..Okay can you please PM me with the link ? thanks.

 

[Sauron]

Originally posted by randman
I'd take a guess Sauron that otherwise the basic contention that it boils down to appearances is accurate.

You'd be wrong.

I'm sure you're used to that, though.

 

[Sauron]

Originally posted by Morat
  A good fossil can yield things like fur, feathers, and internal organs. There was quite a bit of excitement over a clear heart found in a dinosaur fossil.

Louis, look up the word "coprolite".  Somehow it seems appropriate for your education.

 

[The_Josiah]

How bizarre.  You ask for transitional fossils, and links are given detailing literally dozens of them.  Then you complain that there really aren't any, or that the way of determining a transitional is by just saying what one looks like.  Yeah right.  How many transitionals would satisfy you?  Let's see, there's ones between other apes and humans, whales and land animals, reptiles and mammals, fish and amphibians, birds and reptiles...  At what point are you just relying on your own ignorance to carry you through?

Creationists used to decry the lack of transitional fossils for whales.  Until they were found.  Ponder that.

 

[troodon]

birds and reptiles

I prefer to say birds and archosaurs. (joke)

 

[sulphur]

To sauron faecal evidence can be quiet valuable,why do you discount it?