Cummins to Tuinn, 3-31-98:
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 RT> They have already. The theories are tested continuously by
 RT> evolutionists themselves. That's why its called a science.
>Evolution is called science for the sake of authority.  What other
>options?  An atheist can't say "God said so."
Not if you're sympathetic with the position of Frederick Rice.
Rice maintains that atheists are those who merely lack a belief in
God(s).  There's nothing in that definition that prohibits an
atheist from saying, "God said so".
RT:
-But we HAVE transitional forms. They are not non-existent merely rare.
-As one would expect if the punctuated evolution theory is correct.
>Given that there are billions of dug-up fossils in all sorts
>of conditions (bone fragments, deformed creatures, etc.), given
>that there is a *huge* diversity of life, given that some people
>want to find transitionals, don't you think even if Evolution
>were false that there would be found some fossils which look
>transitional?
Large numbers already do.  The discovery of the first complete
H.erectus skeleton was made only about 13 years ago.  Before that,
evolutionists had skeletons of H.habilis and H.sapiens, but none
for the transitional subspecies.  There are literally thousands of
cases like this in different branches of the evolutionary process.
RT:
-We have fossils with ages running up to 600 million years old. That's
-a lot longer than 6000 years. Please explain why we have fossils of
-this age if the earth is only 6000 years old as creationists claim.
>You're trying to stipulate something that I don't agree to.
>There aren't any fossils that are 600 million years old.
That's not my information.  The oldest fossils are 3.5 billion
years old (of stromatolitic bacteria, found in Greenland).  There
are one helluva lot of other fossils, such as fossils of
trilobites (500-570 mya), etc.
Bob
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