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Bex you said: Whether or not we know every species that's ever lived or which genus they belong to exactly, still doesn't remove the fact they're there, they're fully formed and recognisably so, and obviously functional to go with it (reproduction intact), I'm not sure what you are getting at here. Correct me if I'm wrong but this comment seems to indicate that you think the ToE says that animals are not "fully formed," which is not the case. It says that changes in inheritable traits over time are caused by mutation and natural selection. We see the fossils and it looks more like spontaneous appearance of fully formed creatures, rather than a record of gradual evolutionary processes from simple life to properly formed creatures Again, I'm not sure why you seem to think that ToE says that creatures are not "fully formed." We do see gradual changes in the fossil record however. We've discussed horse evolution here before. What we see with horses is a fossil in one layer of rock, a very similar but slightly different fossil in the next layer above that, a very similar but slightly different fossil in the next layer above that, and so on (as a simplification). This happens in the same way around the world. And from stratigraphic knowledge and other dating methods, we know the age of each subsequent layer. There is an undebiable pattern here. The question is: in creationist terms, why does it exist? Why do we see these patterns not only in horses but in other organisms as well? What should we use our God-given brains for, if not to objectively study evidence in front of us and learn from it?
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