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  50. @Olivia P All topics are debatable. And it is a fact that the fossil record doesn't show a gradual change from one species to the next. You see trilobites for millions of years, essentially unchanged, and then suddenly they're all gone and there's something else entirely in that niche. I'm not saying evolution isn't a thing. But it's more of a punctuated RADICAL change, but when that change is underway, there's scarce little paleontological evidence left behind, so for such a strong theory, the evidence is very scarce. Hell, we're not even really sure what "species" means. Some species interbreed successfully, but the offspring are sterile (mules). Some anthropologists would argue that Neanderthals were just a variation on homo sapiens (or vice versa). Plant and animal husbandry are variation of species a la Darwin, by human design. But if you could build a jig to make it possible like Dad did the one time the Chihuahua mix was in heat and our foxhound mix was horny, by putting her on a cinder block and letting them go at it, all the dog breeds can still interbreed and have viable offspring, so we haven't really managed any new speciation, after millennia of selective breeding. I'm more of a punctuated evolution sort of guy. In times of cataclysm, a few radical mutations survive and spread. But at the beginning, there are so few of them, the chances of finding their fossilized remains is minuscule. Hence trilobites until no trilobites. The paucity of fossil records gives the religious types all the ammo they need to confirm what they already believe. The Grand Canyon tells me this Earth is at LEAST many hundreds of millions of years old.
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