More Denton: Last essay of a 3 part series (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 19, 2015, 15:19 (3415 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID (in reply to Tony's post above): I doubt Darwin theory because of the gaps in the fossil record which get more obvious as time passes and the fossil record becomes more complete. Only a God guided evolution makes sense.
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> dhw: If the fossil record is becoming more complete, doesn't that suggest that the gaps are becoming less obvious? Tony is questioning common descent. You indiscriminately attack Darwin's theory as if it was all one piece, but you then go on to accept common descent provided God organized it. -No, the gaps are more obvious. The fossil record, Darwin hoped would fill in the gaps. Instead the gaps are much more sharply defined. I specifically refer to the pre-Cambrian soft body findings. There is no 'complexity' run-up to the Cambrian.
 
> DAVID: I think Denton would actually agree with you, but humans seem to be the pinnacle of creation.
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> dhw: What a wonderful piece of intellectual contortionism. Instead of humans being God's purpose, they now “seem to be the pinnacle”. And to whom do they seem to be the pinnacle? Ah, humans, of course.-If evolution is defined as increasing complexity, a course it certainly seems to follow, what is more complex than humans?