So-called "creationists" - people who, for "religious" reasons, reject the massive scientific evidence and explanatory power behind Darwinian evolution - are not having a good day today. Unfortunately for these folks, scientists have now refuted one of their main "arguments," if one can even call it an "argument" in any serious sense. It turns out that a team of scientists has now discovered "a transitional creature, a fish that is still a fish but has changes that anticipate the emergence of land animals +óGé¼GÇ¥ and is thus a predecessor of amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals and eventually humans."According to an article in today's New York Times, "in addition to confirming elements of a major transition in evolution, the fossils were a powerful rebuttal to religious creationists, who have long argued that the absence of such transitional creatures are a serious weakness in Darwin's theory."
D'oh!
So what are these "creationists" and other "know-nothings" going to argue next, now that their main counter-argument to Darwin - that "not a single fossil with part fins, part feet has been found" - has been utterly demolished? Hopefully, their ideas will follow yet another powerful aspect of evolution theory - extinction. Just like the "fishapod" itself. Ha.
Fun facts to spout back at believers in Biblical inerrancy: there are two contradictory stories of the creation in Genesis. http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/accounts.html