Hi Vern,
Check out
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part1a.html.
The link below shows a transitional fossil
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Acanthostega&contgroup=Terrestrial_Vertebrates
This link profiles the person who has spent forty years looking for and
working on these fossils, so her explanation carries more weight to me than
all those critics who have never even seen a real fossil. She lays out the
whole theory of the transition, and answers the question of how digits
developed from fins
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/link/clack.html
Also the link below, from Glenn Morton's site.You may want to email the
question to him. He can answer your question in detail.
http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/transit.htm
Seek and ye shall find, Vern. The question is, do you really want to find
that for which you are seeking?
.
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Vernon Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:31 PM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: A matter of trust?
Dear All,
In an email to Dave Siemens (31 Mar) I wrote, "It is strange that you, a
Christian, dismiss my suggested 'lucid and concise explanation' of 'junk'
DNA as inadequate when you still have so many transitional 'skeletons'
missing from the hypothetical 'cupboard'. Does this no longer worry
evolutionists? It certainly did Darwin! - and with very good
reason!"
This drew the following private response from a member of the forum, "As a
paleontologist, I am puzzled as to what transitions you think there are
missing. Exactly what do you think evolutionists should be worried about
regarding transitional forms?"
In my reply I asked him to suggest how the alleged transition
fish>amphibian could possibly have taken place, for in my mind it defied all
logic. In particular, in the early stages of the assumed process, I failed
to see what possible selection advantage would accrue from the encumbering
of normal fin activity with the growth of incipient legs and feet (together
with the necessary internal adjustments). My experience over the years has
been that evolutionists assure me that it must have happened. They are far
more comfortable discussing later assumed developments in which leg and foot
function obviously become significant factors in creature survival.
I also requested evidence of the fact that such transitions have been
found in the fossil record.
To date, neither request has been met. Am I therefore correct in inferring
that this essential stage in the evolutionary enterprise is to be taken on
trust?
Sincerely,
Vernon
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