We've, "seen" that animals have changed from one kind to another through things such as fossils.
I've never fully understood the fossil argument, fossils don't seem to prove anything. The only thing fossils show is that an animal that used to exist looked like this and it died. Just because they're similar doesn't mean they had a common ancestor, that could just as easily be proof for a common designer. If it's a good design why not reuse it in another animal?
Then shut the forget up. Thanks for creating a completely redundant sentence!
Hey I was just mentioning what I heard, not that big a deal.
Which is precisely why you should stop posting and accept you can't win here.
Sorry, I think I phrased that wrong. I meant, what is it? What's the argument here? If it's some sort of alternative way of drawing the Geologic time scale, that doesn't help the argument much. The Geologic time scale doesn't have any proof either. If you dig down, as people have, it doesn't correlate with the column. However, some say it does and some say it just doesn't. And as long as people are debating about it and I can't go and dig myself to see who's right, I can't take the geologic time scale as fact.
Didn't Boltster already go over this?
I don't know, I forget. But I'm not saying that it's fact that he's close minded, there's a good chance he's not. But when he says religion is wrong and everything about it is wrong and nothing will ever prove otherwise, that sounds a little close minded.
How was it not good evidence? Because you don't understand it?
no, because nothing has ever been observed to change into a different kind of animal. Changing to another species is fact, that happens all the times in dogs. But if you have proof that something can produce something else totally different, a different kind of animal, that would be evidence.
It's a visual representation of all of the major lifeforms in the animal kingdom traced back to a single common ancestor. All of this is backed up by genetics.
Oh ok, so I'm assuming it's the geologic time scale? Sorry, I haven't seen it illustrated that way before. I usually just see it in a graph or chart or something
I want you to define evolution for me so that I can get a perspective on what you actually understand about the subject.
My understanding of it, is that through natural selection organisms have gradually changed from one type of organism to another starting with whatever was produced by the primordial soup eventually leading to the diversity we have today. And that would require organisms to change from one kind of animal to another over time. But from what we have observed, that has never happened.
