Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 02, 2008, 02:46 (6078 days ago) @ whitecraw

" I bet that long, long after we become extinct following our brief efflorescence as a special life-form, there will still be thread-like tubes having sex in the darkness of the ocean floor, just as there were long, long before even the first sponge ... now that's an evolutionary success story." - I really enjoyed that final statement, but I feel Whitecraw misses the point I am trying to establish. I agree that individuals in a species can adapt; moths, finches, guppies all have their own stories of adaptation. My point is that all that Darwin has established is that species respond to challenges in nature. Some fail and some survive, but there is nothing in the fossil record to show that an earlier species changes into a later one. The gaps in the fossil record are huge. Yes there are transitional forms, but never the step by step approach Darwin calls for. Darwin does not explain the Cambrian Explosion, The Plant Bloom, or the earlier Avalon explosion of Ediacarans. So you can remind me about the moths that I know about, but it proves nothing. AT THIS POINT IN RESEARCH NO ONE KNOWS HOW EVOLUTION WENT FROM SIMPLE FORMS TO VERY COMPLEX.