So they named them protoceratops and believe, without any evidence at all, that they migrated from Asia to North America where they evolved so rapidly into triceratops that they didn t leave any fossil trace. Meanwhile, the protoceratops that stayed in Asia didn t evolve. Furthermore, there isn t a sequence from mother to daughter. He sees in the fossils what he wants to see. One can see a cloud that looks like a horse, but that doesn t mean clouds evolved from horses, or vice versa.
Evolution is in the eye of the beholder.
He sees fossils that he admits don t show an evolutionary sequence, yet he can make out an overall progression even when parent-daughter sequences cannot be found. Letting Cats out of the Bag Bakker has a fundamental problem. He wants people to accept his new theories about dinosaur evolution. But dinosaur evolution has be taught as fact for so long, people believe it is true. Bakker knows how speculative and contradictory the orthodox evolutionary stories are.