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Letter: Fossil help

Published 2 April 2008

From Charles Young

Donald Prothero concludes his discussion of the numerous transitional fossils: “Creationists simply have no answer to such irrefutable evidence” (1 March, p 35). Oh, but they think they do!

In the course of a long online debate I was repeatedly challenged to demonstrate transitions within a species. The examples I provided were dismissed as a series of steps up to modern whales, but with no progression within the species itself to the next one. What we require is a photo display of actual fossils showing the most complete progression available of one species into a new one.

Magnolia, Arizona, US

Issue no. 2650 published 5 April 2008

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