The Like/Hate Thread

[Pinky]

I don't understand the complaint on the fossil record... you know how rare it is for fossilization to even occur? It often requires a natural disaster and that also usually results in gaps of time between fossils. It's not like every animal that died left a fossil for us to find, and even then we've found a very limited number of these fossils. Most animals that die are subject to scavengers and decay leaving nothing to be fossilized.

it's the only thing we have that elevates discussion of long-term evolutionary theory above pure philosophy.