Comments on: How to find an elusive transitional fossil - the story of Tiktaalik http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/15/how-to-find-an-elusive-transitional-fossil-the-story-of-tiktaalik/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:57:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robert http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/15/how-to-find-an-elusive-transitional-fossil-the-story-of-tiktaalik/#comment-22756 Robert Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:02:45 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/15/how-to-find-an-elusive-transitional-fossil-the-story-of-tiktaalik/#comment-22756 Yes, good article, thank you! Yes, good article, thank you!

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/15/how-to-find-an-elusive-transitional-fossil-the-story-of-tiktaalik/#comment-16140 Dan Klarmann Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:15:28 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/15/how-to-find-an-elusive-transitional-fossil-the-story-of-tiktaalik/#comment-16140 Bear in mind that each transitional fossil found implies two new "missing links". No amount of transitional fossils will persuade Creationists of the validity of the fossil record as evidence for evolution. Although it was the growing set of fossil clues that led generations of scientists before Darwin to suggest that species came to be through gradual changes rather than all at once. That's why I like evolutionist arguments from the chemistry and DNA perspective, as in Carroll's "The Making of the Fittest" (<a href="http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/11/29/the-making-of-the-fittest/" target="_blank" title="DI Post: The Making of the Fittest" rel="nofollow">as I discuss here</a>). Just because fossils led the way to the theory of evolution doesn't imply that fossils are the best way to prove it. Bear in mind that each transitional fossil found implies two new “missing links”. No amount of transitional fossils will persuade Creationists of the validity of the fossil record as evidence for evolution. Although it was the growing set of fossil clues that led generations of scientists before Darwin to suggest that species came to be through gradual changes rather than all at once.

That’s why I like evolutionist arguments from the chemistry and DNA perspective, as in Carroll’s “The Making of the Fittest” (as I discuss here).

Just because fossils led the way to the theory of evolution doesn’t imply that fossils are the best way to prove it.

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