RE: What if?

From: Dick Fischer <dickfischer@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 13:17:46 EST

Charles W. Carrigan wrote:

Suppose there are three stratigraphic layers A,B, and C, in chronological order, with A the lowest in the pile and the oldest in age.  There are no significant breaks in the pile that would suggest long periods of time in between them.  Suppose we find a fossil animal in layer A, and a somewhat different one (but yet clearly related) fossil in C.  Evolution predicts that there would be an intermediate fossil in layer B, if preserved.  That prediction could be tested, could it not?

What about migration?  Animals don't stay in the same place.  Of course, on island populations this is true.  The island of Madagascar has archaic animals beneath layers of their descendants.  But proving a linear line of descent is the problem.  You can only make assumptions which would be accepted by the scientific community and rejected by creationists, just like they reject everything else.

Dick Fischer  - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
Received on Wed Dec 8 13:18:38 2004