Originally Posted by CTD
Originally Posted by LinearAq
Since you claim that things cannot exist without leaving fossils, perhaps you could show me the bunny fossils in the Cambrian deposits. Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time? OK, why are the human fossils and dinosaur fossils never in the same layer of deposits and the dinosaurs are always in older deposits?

Just one more claim I never made (not that anyone should try to keep count).

You only implied it by saying:
Originally Posted by CTD
Enter special pleading: "The 'primitive bird' had actually been around longer - it just doesn't turn up in the fossils". On the principle that things can exist without leaving fossils, the whole evostory can be discarded if one so chooses. Or is there some rule that special pleading is valid in emergency situations to salvage failing faith?
I took that as you putting forth the idea that things existing without leaving fossils was a false premise. Is that not what you meant?

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke