XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: cfajohnson@cfaj.ca   
      
   On 2015-05-09, mur wrote:   
   > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:18:42 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2015-04-30, mur wrote:   
   >>...   
   >>>     The fact that there are no examples of reptiles in transition stages to   
   >>> birds, or mammals in transition stages to flying mammals, etc, alive today   
   is   
   >>> evidence that something (like God) had deliberate influence on evolution.   
   >>   
   >>   If there are no examples, it is evidence that they either haven't   
   >>   been found yet or that there aren't any.   
   >   
   >     Why would the transitions have stopped?   
      
     Who says they've stopped?   
      
     There are many examples of transitional species in the fossil   
     record, but we probably haven't yet uncovered all that there are.   
      
   >>It says nothing whatsoever   
   >>   about the existence of something like God or anything else.   
   >   
   >     It says nothing whatsoever to you. It says more than that to some other   
   > people.   
      
     It says just as much about the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the   
     Invisible Pink Unicorn as it does about any other deity. It's not   
     evidence for anything.   
      
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   Chris F.A. Johnson   
      
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