Re: Two more gaps in the fossil record

Gary Collins (gary.collins@etluk.ericsson.se)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:50:01 +0100

Exactly. In a sense, the creationists would be right, of course, there
*will* be more gaps. What they seem to ignore is that the magnitude of the gaps
is decreasing. Kindof like Zeno's paradox - is that the one - where motion is
impossible because in order to go a distance of x metres, you must first go x/2
metres, and this will take a finite time. Since the distance can be halved an
infinite number of times....

/Gary

Bill Hamilton wrote:

> At 06:20 AM 10/15/99 +0000, mortongr@flash.net wrote:
>
> >Since this transitional form has been found, the YECs will now claim that
> >there are two more gaps in the fossil record of transitional forms, one
> >before this creature and one after. So the more transitional forms that are
> >found, the more gaps the fossil record has.
>
> Since fossils are discrete entities and there is a finite -- albeit
> potentially large -- number of them, the evidence for evolution the
> creationists seek -- a continuum -- is mathematically impossible. Maybe
> creationists don't accept Cantor either :-).
> Bill Hamilton
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