"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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But to say that an amoeba becomes a fish; becomes a lizard; becomes a
hominid... The fossil record will only take you so far, after which, you
have to "use your imagination" to make a leap in the direction your
current
belief(s) want you to go. Where are the transitional forms? Until they are
produced, then evolution (to me, anyway) is just as faith-based as
creation.

Then there is another point of view, that being that creationists and
evolutionists are both right. In a grossly over-simplified "nut-shell"
description: someone set up all the dominoes in a certain design and then
tipped over the first one (Big-Bang) to start the whole process...


I tend to fall into the category that subscribes to this latter point of
view, but even that requires faith, as does most anything in life.

As for the fossil record, there may not be sufficient "transitional forms"
to prove one way or the other. Since evolution is a process of mutation,
it's likely that only successful mutations survived long enough to leave a
sufficient record. Other mutations may not have been viable and therefore
left no record. This argument leans toward the egg side of the chicken/egg
argument because whence the chicken came may not have been a chicken in this
case.

But I ramble. Nice to see an intelligent argument for a change.