re: #574 rsdavis

One of the enduring falsehoods repeated endlessly by anti-evolution fanatics is that there are no “transitional fossils”

Actually, Darwin was the first one to raise the issue of a lack of transitional fossils as a serious difficulty for his theory (in Origin of Species). He suggested that this was due to the small number of fossil records discovered in his day and that as additional fossils were discovered, they would bear out his theory.

I have no expertise in the field, and so can’t comment on whether the current fossil record shows enough evidence of transitional forms to satisfy Darwin.

Exactly. Darwin was rational and honest about it, unlike many modern Darwinists who seem to favor evolutionary dogma over scientific analysis. Now they won’t even let you talk about the problems presented by the fossil record (because such “nonsense” has religious implications and does not belong in science).