I don't know if any of you caught that
exchange between Richard Dawkins and Bill O'Reilly a couple of days ago (Bill's ranting ignorance was a disgrace to humanity in the 21st century) but that glorious line was brought up once again by Dawkins...
"...no, but science is working on it."
Admittedly (from memory) I think he had the origin of life rather than human evolution in mind (and it's not impossible that some areas at the border of the natural world/universe may be forever beyond the grasp of human comprehension) but it seems an apt line to quote for the sceptics who STILL reject the theory of evolution by natural selection as being "full of holes". As I said earlier, gaps in the fossil record do not mean the theory is full of holes. And science is working on it...
New flying reptile fossils found
Quote:
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"Until now, scientists had known about two distinct groups of these creatures - primitive, long-tailed pterosaurs and more advanced short-tailed ones, separated by a gap in the fossil record. But the discovery of more than 20 new fossil skeletons in north-east China sits in the gap in this evolutionary chain."
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I think to most of us who have studied this to some degree and who don't possess a vested interest in "not seeing" the evidence (ie. religion), all the evidence is, by now, overwhelming. Those who still doubt it really have to place their doubt in some perspective - they're effectively looking at a vast jigsaw puzzle of a landscape, almost complete, with just a few pieces missing, yet stubbornly insisting it's not really a landscape. (And they also have to admit that they're wearing some biblical/koranic glasses which have a different picture painted on the lens)
In fact the jigsaw analogy doesn't really do the depth of ignorance justice, as there's obviously more than just fossil records to support the theory.