You evolutionists are trying to rewrite history but all I'd have to do is read "The origin of species" to the audience to prove Charles Darwin acknowledged there were no transitional fossils,but insisted they would be found.He even said we would have grounds to reject evolution if they were not found,therefore evolution should have been rejected long ago when they were not found.You say I make baseless assertions but the bottom line is the fossils do not tell us life evolves,that is evolution imagination.I'm just using the fossils right now because they are evidence that a former world totally different than this world,with different kinds of life in it existed just like the Gap Theory interpretation predicts.hughfarey wrote:True, I haven't, so I thought I'd look one up, but YouTube doesn't seem to have any. It seems that the most vociferous of the opponents of Gap Theory are other biblical literalists.abelcainsbrother wrote:You just doubt the Gap Theory will be more believable,that is all.But you have probably never seen a debate between a Gap Theorist and somebody who believes the theory of evolution ...No. There isn't any evidence. We keep asking you for some and all you do is ask questions or make unsubstantiated assertions.... but once the evidence is laid out the Gap Theory is more believable and the Gap Theorists wins the debate based on the evidence ...There is no dispute that the earth millions of years ago was very different from modern earth. That is not Gap Theory. The dispute is about the possibility of the instantaneous destruction of one world and its instantaneous replacement by a different one. For which there is no evidence.... and fossils is just one area of evidence I usually bring up but fossils alone are evidence for a former world totally different than this world,with different kinds of life that lived in it,but there is more evidence.This is factually incorrect. The emergence of geology, and the discovery of fossils within stratigraphic layers had generated evolutionary ideas long before On The Origin Of Species, and Darwin uses fossils to help support his argument throughout. A good example plucked more or less at random is:Also fossils were not an important part of the formulation of evolution which is why Charles Darwin admitted there were no transitional fossils,but predicted they would be found ...
"Let us now look to the mutual affinities of extinct and living species. They all fall into one grand natural system; and this fact is at once explained on the principle of descent. The more ancient any form is, the more, as a general rule, it differs from living forms. But, as Buckland long ago remarked, all fossils can be classed either in still existing groups, or between them. That the extinct forms of life help to fill up the wide intervals between existing genera, families, and orders, cannot be disputed. For if we confine our attention either to the living or to the extinct alone, the series is far less perfect than if we combine both into one general system. With respect to the Vertebrata, whole pages could be filled with striking illustrations from our great palæontologist, Owen, showing how extinct animals fall in between existing groups. Cuvier ranked the Ruminants and Pachyderms, as the two most distinct orders of mammals; but Owen has discovered so many fossil links, that he has had to alter the whole classification of these two orders; and has placed certain pachyderms in the same sub-order with ruminants: for example, he dissolves by fine gradations the apparently wide difference between the pig and the camel." [Emphasis mine]
Unless you are accusing paleontologists of devising endless numbers of Piltdown-style chimera, this is meaningless, and if you are so accusing them, it is untrue.... but they never were,instead the fossils were just put together to make them look like transitional fossils.Not to me, it isn't.But it makes no different because a former lost world is more believable,still.
You see the bible tells us a former world perished and in order for there to have been a former world we need evidence to confirm that there was indeed a former world that perished and fossils like hominids,dinosaurs,trilobites,etc prove there was indeed a former world and the life in the former world is not related to life in this world,nor does it have anything to do with this world we live in now.
Evolution has blinded you to the truth and this is why it is assumed the hominids are related to man.Buckland rejected Evolution and so did Lyell for most of his life,he only came to consider it possibly true after years of discussions with Darwin.It is not true that the fossils were evidence for evolution,no matter how they were grouped together.they later became evidence after the evidence was taken and made to fit into the theory of evolution.
Those who reject The Gap Theory for other creation interpretations run into problems and also try to make them apply to this world tooWhether they are old earth or young earth but in order to do so they must ignore 2nd Peter 3:3-4 in order to do so and a lot of times it causes them problems with interpretation of Genesis,as well as timing issues that don't seem to match up.Ocamm's Razor which IMO is the Gap Theory fixes all of these problems while making things simple.We have the bible telling us a former world perished and fossils are evidence for the kinds of life that lived in it,until it perished and God made this world and the life in this world.It is easy and simple.
Young earth creationists must try to make all of this evidence of extinct life fit into a 1500 year period between Adam and Noah's flood which is impossible.There is more life extinct than all of the life on earth now and all of the life that has lived on the earth in a 6-10,000 year old age of the earth for your interpretation. We know based on this the earth is atleast millions of years old.