After more than a century there are even less examples of transitions than at Darwin's time

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Related claims 6 Acknowledgments

Claim

After more than a century there are "even less examples of evolutionary transitions than at Darwin's time".

Source

• Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here?, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. (p. 20), quoting

  Raup, David, 1979, Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology, Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Chicago (pp. 22, 23, 25)

Responses

1. Hundreds of new fossil specimens have been found since Darwin's time, including those of primitive birds, and bird-like dinosaurs.
2. A more accurate claim would be "After more than a century, the Creationists' definition of the word 'transition' has become much more restrictive in an attempt to claim that there are no known transitional forms between species."
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Suppressed Evidence (of transitional fossils)
• Moving Goalpost Syndrome (definition of transitional fossils gets more restrictive)
• Straw Man (evolution does not predict a smooth continuum of fossils)
• Denying the Antecedent (lack of fossils does not disprove evolution)

Related claims

• Transitional fossils are lacking
• There should be billions of transitional fossils
• We should see a smooth continuum through the fossil record
• Fossil record doesn't show progress
• Some species don't seem to evolve for millions of years
• Punctuated equilibrium was ad hoc to justify gaps
• Archaeopteryx was probably not an ancestor of modern birds
• Horse fossils don't show evolution

Acknowledgments