Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

FIGURE 3.8. The flood geology model completely ignores the fact that rock formations, like the Permian sequence of the Grand Can ...

76 Evolution and the Fossil Record Mesa Sandstone, which forms the spectacular cliffs and spires of Monument Valley. This unit a ...

The Fossil Record 77 complex and variable from region to region, with complex intertonguing contacts between units and facies th ...

78 Evolution and the Fossil Record to find what they’re paid to find. Instead, like the Clark and Block quotes above demonstrate ...

The Fossil Record 79 102 meters (335 feet) long, but were scrapped only a few years after they were built because they were not ...

80 Evolution and the Fossil Record where they spout scientific-sounding words that make no sense whatsoever. The focus of their ...

The Fossil Record 81 Dates with Rocks We now have literally thousands of separate analyses using a wide variety of radio- metric ...

82 Evolution and the Fossil Record even older, with many samples giving ages of 4.5 to 4.6 billion years. Although we have no ea ...

The Fossil Record 83 well-understood anomaly. Normal radiocarbon dating works when nitrogen-14 from the atmosphere is transforme ...

84 Evolution and the Fossil Record are used on the same samples, so if any one of them is giving problems, it clearly can be thr ...

The Fossil Record 85 Morris is fond of citing figures that indicate that about 5 million metric tonnes of cosmic dust falls on t ...

86 Evolution and the Fossil Record Darwin’s friend and supporter Thomas Henry Huxley warned him that, “You have loaded yourself ...

The Fossil Record 87 By the 1940s, studies of breeding and gene flow had shown that large populations are resistant to evolution ...

88 Evolution and the Fossil Record the data, which Gould and Eldredge (1977) quickly pointed out. Eventually it became clear tha ...

The Fossil Record 89 Through all this intense debate within evolutionary biology, the creationists are con- stantly on the looko ...

90 Evolution and the Fossil Record In the Dictionary of Science and Creationism, Ecker (1990:195–196) defines the issue with tra ...

The Fossil Record 91 But creationists quibble to no end, their basic argument, as paraphrased by biologist Kenneth Miller, being ...

92 Evolution and the Fossil Record sport is stringing together quotations, carefully and sometimes expertly taken out of context ...

The Fossil Record 93 Prothero, D. R. 1992. Punctuated equilbria at twenty: A paleontological perspective. Skeptic 1(3):38–47. Pr ...

FIGURE 4.1. We are familiar with pictures of Darwin as a sickly, bearded old man, but when he traveled the world on the Beagle v ...