1. Some claim evolution is not a predictive science.
How can this possibly be justified! (I've even heard people with biological backgrounds claim this!)
I'll give one example and move on. I was just reading a passage from the book Your Inner Fish. To, paraphrase: before 380 million years ago, there were no known living animals on land. Then, at 360 million years ago, there was extensive evidence that animals were on land.
The author then states he then predicted that there must be a missing link between sea and land animals in rocks of ages between 360 and 380 million years ago. Guess what. He found rocks of this right age and found the missing link. (See picture above).
Can someone explain to me how this, and countless examples like it, doesn't qualify evolution as being considered a predictive science? Seriously!
2. Some claim that microevolution is true but macroevolution is not.
How can someone read the above example and still believe this?
Is there an explanation why, if one assumes #2, that we continue to find missing links between two different species when we look at time periods between when the two different species existed?
Think about it! Take the types of mammals that roamed the earth 10 million years ago and look at ourselves today. Now reject macroevolution. Can anyone give me one intelligent reason why you would expect "missing link" species to be discovered if we go exploring the 5 million years ago era? And yet such missing links are discovered, not just with humans, but between all species living in different time periods.
Can #2 believers explain the existence of missing links (intermediate species)? How can you explain the existence of missing links between species if you reject macroevolution? Seriously!
Facts:
1. Evolution is a predictive science.
2. Macroevolution is the only framework consistant with the data. (Else, explain to me how it is possible to reject macroevolution and still have a theory that predicts the existence of intermediate species we continue to discover time and time again.)
Seriously!
