Kyda

There are far too many gaps in the fossil record and the transitional forms that Darwin was certain would be uncovered as research progressed are extremely rare (Darwinian evolution requires intermediate forms between species). Today’s extensive fossil record shows stasis of millions of years duration in some species and the fully formed sudden appearance without ancestral fossil record of others.

Actually, that there are gaps in the fossil record, huge gaps, I do not find at all surprising.

What is surprising to me, given the geologic violence in Earth’s history (so evident here in my beloved Kah-lee-fooorn-yah) is that there are any non-gaps at all in that record, let alone that the record is as complete as it is.

I think the real number line is the only more or less linear* “object of study” in science that has no gaps, and can be shown to have none, in principle, as it were.

Charlie? WichitaBoy? Help me out here.

Jamie Irons

*And the fossil record is in some rough sense “linear,” a “time line,” wouldn’t one say?