Posted by rpcman on July 09, 1998 at 18:01:38:
In Reply to: questions posted by Walker on July 09, 1998 at 17:16:27:
: : 1) There is nothing (and I do mean nothing) that scientists have encountered that is both simple enough to be our first "ancestor," yet complicated enough to replicate itself (at which point natural selection would prevail).
: Why do you prefer to say "God did it" over "It hasn’t been found yet."?
This may sound like a cop-out but could this intermediate form even be found? There is little to no chance of it ever fossilizing. What if it was completely wiped out by its descendant(s) through natural selection?
Let's pretend for a moment that dinosaurs (or some other replicating species or organism) were made up of materials that didn't fossilize except under ideal conditions. Would we now know that dinosaurs (or the other replicators) ever existed without the fossil evidence?
With a simple cell structure fossilization is near impossible. Without *any* cell structure is fossilization even possible?
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