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"A faith that can not survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets" - Arthur C. Clarke |
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"A faith that can not survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets" - Arthur C. Clarke |
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Abiogenesis Reward:
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a $2,000 Reward ...to the first person(s) who can provide clear empirical evidence (published in a good peer-reviewed journal) demonstrating that there has ever occurred: a series of 5 (or more) descendantly-related intermediary species which make a transitional bridge between any two phyla, classes or orders of animals. -- The transitional species must be fairly equally placed along the transitional bridge, with 5 of the intermediaries being spaced on either side of the middle between the two phyla, classes or orders (near the 30% and 40% and 50% and 60% and 70% development points).
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For example: A series of species descendantly relating some ancestral order of land-based animals to the turtles, should show the progressive 30% and 40% and 50% and 60% and 70% development (macro-evolution) of the characteristic turtle-shell toward its final (modern) status. --And at the same time, the same sort of step-wise change of the characteristic skeleton and limbs of turtles must be demonstrated in the fossils. --- Such changes should not be very hard to find, since turtle fossils were very easily formed (since many turtles spend part of every year buried in the mud), and are quite numerous and found world-wide. - - Still, we have virtually no examples of intermediate fossil forms evolving up to the turtle. |
| OR, For example: A series of species descendantly relating some ancestral class of fish to the amphibian class. This series should show something close to the 30% and 40%, as well as the 50%, the 60% and the 70% development of the pelvis of an amphibian... and at the same time, a very similar step-wise development of the bones in the limbs, as well as gill-disappearance and a couple other necessary adaptations. - - - This should be quite easy to find, since fish are abundantly fossilized all around the world. Five or six good fossils would amazingly demonstrate this particular macro-evolutionary transition. But if such changes are not demonstrated, we do not have adequate fossil evidence to assert that this happened. - - - And so far, the fossils don't show this. |
| Note: The Coelecanth was put forward for decades as an example of one of the transitionals between fish and amphibians (because some people wanted to see it that way), however, live specimens were caught, and now it is known that the Coelecanth is very much a fish, and is not nearly a transitional. |
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OR, For example: A series of species descendantly relating some ancestral order of land-based mammals (some say a shrew-like mammal) to the whales (the cetaceans), should show the progressive 30% and 40% and 50% and 60% and 70% "movement" of the blow-hole in the evolving whale-skull toward its final (modern) location. And at the same time, the change of the limbs of whales must demonstrated in the fossils, along with the gradual development of the horizontal tail-flukes (which move up-and-down), as well as the progressing size of the animals.
-- Such fossil evidence shouldn't be too hard to find, since buried whale skeletons are found abundantly by the tons all around the world. -- However, such step-wise changes have not even nearly been produced, leaving us with inadequate examples of intermediate fossil forms leading to the whale.
In 1982, a British evolutionist, F. Hitching, said: |
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Any proof?
If not, an intelligent designer is most probably the best explanation for the origin of biological information. Also, intelligent design should be taught in schools on an equal footing along with ideas of evolutionary origins.
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