The Theory of Evolution

From the exact same source that your quote from Dawkins came from, is this quote: "All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way. A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If if can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker." -Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence Reveals a Universe Without Design (1986) The only place where fraudulent fossils have been a problem is, as you mentioned already, China. While this produces a slight problem for Chinese evolutionary biologists and paleontologists, there are very rarely any frauds for fossils elsewhere. The two most famous frauds I can think of are Piltdown man and Archaeoraptor. And you'd see these frauds as some sort of evidence that the Theory of Evolution was false, but these frauds were committed against evolution science and revealed to be frauds by that same science. Piltdown man, while considered to be legitimate at first, later became an oddity out of the fossil record. As more fossils were actually found, Piltdown man stood out more because it didn't fit in anywhere. After a while it was taken out and shelved, until technology could go on to test the fossil and prove that it was indeed a forgery. Archaeoraptor was completely sensationalized by media as the "missing link between dinosaurs and birds". However, several of those had already been found (including one that Darwin himself predicted, and ended up being found in his lifetime- Archaeopteryx). And Archaeoraptor actually ended up providing the tail for the then unknown dromaeosaur, Microraptor (a small, feathered and winged dinosaur). Again, these were frauds committed against evolutionary science and then dismissed by evolutionary science. Ernst Haeckel did promote that Embryos went through their evolutionary stages, but he was wrong and then discredited because of it. No one in modern evolutionary science puts any credit to Haeckels idea of Embyronic Recapitulation. However, there is a field called 'Evo-Devo' that has had quite a bit of success. "It addresses the origin and evolution of embryonic development; how modifications of development and developmental processes lead to the production of novel features, such as the evolution of feathers; the role of developmental plasticity in evolution; how ecology impacts development and evolutionary change; and the developmental basis of homoplasy and homology." (Wikipedia) Your argument about Dawkins' interview with Stein is interesting, considering that same Wikipedia article shows that the movie was purposely misleading; it edited interviews and misattributed quotes from Darwin to make it seem like he and his Theory supported Eugenics (even though Darwin criticized the idea of eugenics from an evolutionary perspective and in the 1920's, when eugenics was being practiced, evolutionary biologists criticized the idea as well). The entire movie was a dishonest piece of propaganda made to mislead the public. I already had linked a video to you in those reposted rebuttals I made that explained the Evolution of Sex and how Asexual and Sexual reproduction work, as well as their advantages and disadvantages. But the real issue here is the fact that you mined that quotation from Graham Bell's book to take it out of context. He uses the paragraph that quote is from to pose a question about the origin of sex, so that he may provide an explanation of it in the next section. I actually called Graham Bell myself to make sure of this myself, and he confirmed it. (https://books.google.com...) I cannot find a source where I can look through Zimmer's publication for free. However, considering the few parts of the quote that are skipped over and the ending question, I can also assume that Zimmer was about to do the same thing that Bell was- posing an issue to present a question which he would go on to answer. DNA is made by RNA, RNA replicates itself. RNA would have come about through chemical interactions, as according to Abiogenesis (a well supported hypothesis for the origin of life through chemical processes that has already been shown to be possible in a few experiments, including the famous Urey-Miller experiment). "Do you agree that a single-celled organism could find it advantageous to cluster together with other members of its species? Then we have colonies. Do you agree that once clustered together, sometimes it makes sense that one cell or another might specialize for the good of the community? Then we have multi-cellular organisms." -Reddit user 'Arachnophilia'; https://www.reddit.com... Those transitional fossils aren't "missing". You're either ignoring the ones that we've found or just outright lying now. We've found several transitional forms for several organisms. I had already shown you some in my initial argument (whale ancestors) on this debate, and two more in this argument as well (bird ancestors). But it seems like you think that fossils are hugely abundant. If it weren't for the fact that there have been millions (if not billions) of different types of organisms, we may not have found many fossils at all. Fossilization is an extremely rare thing. Conditions have to be perfect for an organism to be fossilized. But let's forget about fossils for a second, because it seems that you also don't know another thing about evolution- it's always happening. So it's not just that we have transitional fossils of lifeforms, but any life form is a transitional one. You've provided another mined quotation. I'm not going to bother going too in-depth into this one since I'm running low on space to write. I'll provide a source that shows the entire thing and puts it into the proper context. http://www.talkorigins.org... Quote #3.2 shows the entire quote, and explains it as well. Organisms that have brains developed folds in the brain, which allowed us to have brains with more mass, while saving space in the skull. With bigger brains this also allowed these organisms to do things such as problem solving. Smooth brained animals (such as Koalas) are unable to do that much (e.g. when presented with plucked leaves on a flat surface, the Koala cannot adapt to the change in its normal feeding routine and will not eat the leaves). Altruism/Morality would have developed in social animals (not just humans, but other apes and monkeys, dolphins and whales, elephants, etc.). They realize it's better to look after one another and find ways to develop a system that benefits their "society". 'The Evolutionary Origin of Female Orgasm' by Mihaela Pavličev and Gunter Wagner: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com... I don't have enough space to paste the entire quote, so you'll just have to read it on there instead as I can't post one part of the quote without it not making sense or making it seem like I'm only taking a specific part of the quote to support my position.