Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 01:48 (3933 days ago) @ David Turell

One quote here that struck me as particularly interesting was thisaleontologists have paid an enormous price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study . . . The history of most fossil species includes tow [sic] features particularly inconsistent with gradualism: 1. Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change I [sic] usually limited and directionless. 2. Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and 'fully formed.'-
That has a strikingly remarkable similarity to the way that civilizations sprung up in various locations all over the earth, 'fully formed'.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.