“I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it.” TruthScienceUnderstandingKnowledgeEvolutionBibleFossilsBook Of GenesisFossil RecordScientific CuriosityJacqueline KellyEvolution Of Calpurnia Tate Author:Kelly Jacqueline
“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... 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.” ScienceEvolutionBiologyFossilsDarwinismDarwinPaleontologyMacroevolutionMacro EvolutionNeo DarwinismConfessions Of The DarwinistsDarwinist ConfessionsFossil Record Book:In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life Source: In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.” ScienceEvolutionBiologyFossilsDarwinismDarwinPaleontologyMacroevolutionMacro EvolutionNeo DarwinismFossil Record Author:Gareth J. Nelson
“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition.” ScienceEvolutionBiologyFossilsDarwinismDarwinPaleontologyMacroevolutionMacro EvolutionNeo DarwinismFossil Record Author:Gareth J. Nelson