Creationist Lies
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A'ight...I usually stay outta the political/religious threads, but Fundamentalist Creationism always rubs me the wrong way. I believe that one can be faithful too one's religious writings AND reconcile scientific advances that may conflict with what is taught by parable.
I'll could argue all of the rebuttals point by point, both scientifically and spiritually, but I'll just pick on the usual anti evolution argument: The supposed lack of intermediary forms in the fossil record remains the fundamental canard of current antievolutionism. Such transitional forms are sparse, to be sure, and for two sets of good reasons — geological (the gappiness of the fossil record) and biological (the episodic nature of evolutionary change, including patterns of punctuated equilibrium, and transition within small populations of limited geographic extent). But paleontologists have discovered several superb examples of intermediary forms and sequences, more than enough to convince any fair-minded skeptic about the reality of life’s physical genealogy