Their Two Cents v.3
Who wrote the following:
To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story - amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.
The quote is from Henry Gee, chief science writer for Nature.
A competing theory of intelligent design
Posted by: Cineaste | 22 September 2006 at 08:47 AM
P.S. The diagram to the right is excellent.
Posted by: Cineaste | 22 September 2006 at 08:48 AM
What makes you claim the lineage cannot be tested? What about the dramatic work on whale evolution? The evidence was, and is, tested by DNA work, resulting in new theory.
How are fossils untestable?
That quote is a bit like saying 'God doesn't exist because the Cubbies are non in the World Series.' Grammatically the sentence is acceptable; sanity wise, it suffers.
Posted by: Ed Darrell | 23 September 2006 at 08:06 PM