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04/04/21

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Originally posted by MrGordon ↑

I have considered these things. Here is what I have found:
The fossil record lacks proof.

A View of Life states: “Beginning at the base of the Cambrian period and extending for about 10 million years, all the major groups of skeletonized invertebrates made their first appearance in the most spectacular rise in diversity ever recorded on our planet.”—(California, 1981), Salvador E. Luria, Stephen Jay Gould, Sam Singer, p. 649.

Carl Sagan, in his book Cosmos, candidly acknowledged: “The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer.”—(New York, 1980), p. 29.

How can the theory of evolution be tested? The most obvious way is to examine the fossil record to see if a gradual change from one kind to another really happened. Did it? No, as a number of scientists honestly admit. One, Francis Hitching, writes: “When you look for links between major groups of animals, they simply aren’t there.”
The truth is that the sudden appearance of animal kinds in the fossil record supports special creation much more than it does evolution.

What about biologists?
Commenting on the fossils of fish and amphibians, biologist Malcolm S. Gordon states that the fossils found represent only a small, “possibly quite unrepresentative, sample of the biodiversity that existed in these groups at those times.” He further says: “There is no way of knowing to what extent, if at all, those specific organisms were relevant to later developments, or what their relationships might have been to each other.”

Geneticists?
One of the chief scientists involved in the genetic decoding humbly remarked: “We have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God.”

Common descent?
The Greek term phy·leʹ (rendered “tribe” refers to a group of people united by common descent and also to a subdivision thereof, that is, a clan or tribe.
In expressions like “out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” “tribe” seems to mean a group of people related by common descent. Such expressions, then, are exhaustive, referring to all people.

(Acts 17:26) And he made out of one man every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell,

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''Carl Sagan, in his book Cosmos, candidly acknowledged: “The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer.”—(New York, 1980), p. 29.''

Here is an example of Watchtower quote mining, lies and deception:

What does the fossil record actually show?

Carl Sagan, in his book Cosmos, candidly acknowledged: “The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer.”—(New York, 1980), p. 29.
To read the above quote in question and answer format, one would "reason" that a reputable scientist "candidly" agreed that the fossil record itself could support a Great Designer. This designer would be Jehovah according to Watchtower, and his creation would not utilize evolution. If you implicitly trusted Watchtower, then there would be no questions asked on the context. However, it does not take much digging to realize that the quote given completely misrepresents the idea Carl Sagan was actually conveying. He was not making a "candid" admission to Watchtower's version of God.

In the quoted passage, Sagan was trying to explain why, through history, it made sense that humans concluded there was a Great Designer before there was an extensive knowledge of the fossil record. He was saying that humans were not stupid. They were intelligent and reasoning, but they just didn't have all the pieces to the puzzle.

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