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Here we go again. One transitional fossil is found, and presto!--Darwinism is undeniable. Paleontologist Michael Novacek says some people will never be convinced and conveniently ignores the growing noncreationist voices of variance. The fishapod could be a link--or a strange animal. Without a worldwide fossil record of continuous transformation, it is far from a slam dunk for Darwin's theory in action...
Michael J. Novacek's viewpoint sustains the old-fashioned belief that biological evolution is incompatible with the idea of a Creator. Is it so incomprehensible that a Creator used evolution to bring organisms into being? There is incontrovertible evidence for biological evolution. Why couldn't a God have created life and enabled it to evolve by what we call natural selection? We must not box ourselves into one viewpoint...
...lack of missing links is still part of the antievolution rhetoric circulating on the Internet. "Some people will never be convinced," says paleontologist Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (see box). "But discoveries like this are valuable because there are people who are still undecided about evolution. This gives us an opportunity to educate them." And if not with this discovery, then maybe with the next one. "The fishapod," says Miller, "is one more piece of a rapidly filling jigsaw puzzle. And every couple of years, we put another important...
...Novacek is a curator of paleontology and the provost of science at New York's American Museum of Natural History
...Novacek is provost and curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City