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George G. Simpson

Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

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Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

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Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

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Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

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He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

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The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

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Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

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Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

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Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

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