Comedian Lewis Black does a bit where he mocks creationists by saying that when they talk about the earth being created he says “Fossils, fossils, fossils, fossils – I win!”
Really? The fossil evidence is that clear? What do expert in evolutionary theory have to say?
“That’s still one of the great mysteries and problems to be solved in vertebrate evolution, the origins and interrelationships of these early jawed fishes.”
~ Dr. John Long, palaeontologist and Head of Science at the Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
“We have no fossil records of bats during the Cretaceous period. This means that we are only depending on speculation, when it [ bat evolution] started and what happened in that time.”
~ Dr. Joerg Haberstetzer of the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt Germany, specializes in bat evolution
“We don’t have such material...There is not a time when we can find the missing link.”
~ Dr. Irina Koretsky, Palaeontologist and Research Associate, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, specializes in seal and sea lion evolution
“We know only little about the evolution of pterosaurs. The ancestors are not known...When the pterosaurs first appear in the geological records, there were completely perfect.”
~ Dr Gunter Viohl, Curator of Jura Museum in Germany
“Wherever we try to put Tyrannosaurs in the phylogeny of the breaching history of the therapod dinosaurs, they have a long missing records. And we are going to find that record one of these days.”
~ Dr. Paul Sereno, Paleontologist and Professor at the University of Chicago
“We are certainly lacking information that ties together meat-eating dinosaurs and all the rest of the dinosaurs...We’ve got nothing there yet. There is a huge gap.”
~ Dr. Angela Milner, Palaeontologist and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Natural History Museum of London
According to the experts, we don’t have evidence for the evolution of fish, bats, sea lions, seals, Pterosaurs and Tyrannosaurs. Uh, sorry Lewis.
*all quotations taken from “Evolution: The Grand Experiment” by Dr. Carl Werner
1 comment:
I thought those quotes seemed familiar. great posts :)
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