If you smell a rat, Russ, your instincts are functioning properly. A reasonably complete list of the assumptions behind evodates will not be forthcoming. If you want one, you're pretty much forced to creationist sources; the evolutionists simply don't like to acknowledge them.

I note that there's been reference to "the assumption" as if there is only one. We have the word 'a' in the English language, and when an informed person employs 'the' where 'a' is correct, this is an overt attempt to deceive.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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