Post by Pahu79 on Aug 14, 2013 10:37:53 GMT -5
Fossil Gaps 10
Fossil links are also missing between large groupings of plants (c), between single-celled forms of life and invertebrates (animals without backbones), among insects (d), between invertebrates and vertebrates (animals with backbones) (e), between fish and amphibians (f), between amphibians and reptiles (g), between reptiles and mammals (h), between reptiles and birds (i), between primates and other mammals (j), and between apes and other primates (k).
c. If evolution happened, nonvascular plants should have preceded vascular plants. However, fossils of nonvascular plants are not found in strata evolutionists believe were deposited before the earliest vascular plants appeared.
“The bryophytes[/i] [nonvascular plants] are presumed to have evolved before the appearance and stabilization of vascular tissue—that is, before the appearance of these tracheophytes [/i] [vascular plants] —although there is no early bryophyte[/i] [nonvascular plant] fossil record.” [/i] Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz, p. 250.
“The actual steps that led to the origin of seeds and fruits are not known...” [/i] Ibid.
[From “In the Beginning” by Walt Brown]