He umpires in his son's sports activities as part of the Amateur Softball Association. After Mike's extensive reference to his book, no introduction was needed, though he too had an essentially identical slide showing its front cover. He would say yes to P. if it offered a novel view, a fair summary of life science, corrected any major errors, or stimulated critical scientific thought. Ken began describing his difficulties with the book by noting that, despite reference to the half-life of rubidium and strontium, P. says nothing about the age of the earth. Secondly, its coverage of fossils is in need of correction.
Fossils are neither rare nor fragmentary.
For instance, there are over a million extant sea urchin fossils. Many fossils are not lacking in detail either. The fossil record shows continuity between present and past life much better than some arguments to the contrary. Furthermore, evolution does not follow continuous or linear descent but shows a branching pattern instead. Ken also gave the example of Mekong River snails to illustrate that there are few gaps in the fossil record.