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{{Comment-box1|label=Comment:|text=Given Ray's track record of deliberately misrepresenting evolution, he either was not sharing with his readers what else he saw at the museum or he had no idea of the facts before his eyes. His use of the word "monkey" deliberately misleads the reader to think this thing looks like a monkey, when it reality it is a reconstruction of what [[wikipedia:Homo floresiensis|Homo floresiensis]] may have looked like. It clearly has more human features than a monkey.<ref>[http://hopsea.mnhn.fr/pc/flores/flores.html MNHN Link]</ref> The stuffed monkey in question is [[wikipedia:Australopithecus afarensis|Australopithecus afarensis]], one of the many intermediate fossils  in human evolution. Australopithecus afarensis proved to be a fully bipedal ape whose hands, feet, teeth, pelvis, skull, and other physical details were exactly what creationists challenged us to find, yet they’re still pretending we never found it. But worse than that, we didn’t just find that one. In 1977, three years after we discovered the no-longer-missing link in the human evolutionary lineage, Harvard paleontologist, Stephen J. Gould mentioned an “extreme rarity” of other clear transitions persistent in the fossil record until that time, and his comment, -taken out of context- remains a favorite of creationist quote-miners to this day. But in the more than 30 years since then, there has been a paleontological boom such that we now have way more [[Transitional fossil|transitional]] species in many more lineages than we ever needed or hoped for.  
{{Comment-box1|label=Comment:|text=Given Ray's track record of deliberately misrepresenting evolution, he either was not sharing with his readers what else he saw at the museum or he had no idea of the facts before his eyes. His use of the word "monkey" deliberately misleads the reader to think this thing looks like a monkey, when it reality it is a reconstruction of what [[wikipedia:Homo floresiensis|Homo floresiensis]] may have looked like. It clearly has more human features than a monkey.<ref>[http://hopsea.mnhn.fr/pc/flores/flores.html MNHN Link]</ref> The stuffed monkey in question is [[wikipedia:Australopithecus afarensis|Australopithecus afarensis]], one of the many intermediate fossils  in human evolution. Australopithecus afarensis proved to be a fully bipedal ape whose hands, feet, teeth, pelvis, skull, and other physical details were exactly what creationists challenged us to find, yet they’re still pretending we never found it. But worse than that, we didn’t just find that one. In 1977, three years after we discovered the no-longer-missing link in the human evolutionary lineage, Harvard paleontologist, Stephen J. Gould mentioned an “extreme rarity” of other clear transitions persistent in the fossil record until that time, and his comment, -taken out of context- remains a favorite of creationist quote-miners to this day. But in the more than 30 years since then, there has been a paleontological boom such that we now have way more [[Transitional fossil|transitional]] species in many more lineages than we ever needed or hoped for.  


Ray fallaciously concludes the entire theory of evolution is based on a single intermediate. However, scientists have discovered thousands of transitional fossils and the theory of evolution does not rest on a single intermediate, nor does it rest solely on fossils. This is a [[god of the gaps]] fallacy. In fact, every fossil is a transitional fossil, which has been pointed out to Ray in [http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rational_Response_Squad_debate_with_Way_of_the_Master a debate with the Rational Response Squad]. In 1999, National Academy of Sciences reported that the total number of transitional fossils were so large, lots of biologists and paleontologists now consider that list “innumerable” especially since the tally of definite transitionals keeps growing so fast! Several lineages are now virtually complete, including our own. Every species living today has definite relatives both extant and extinct, and evident in the fossil record. And in one sense, all of them, even the things still alive, count as transitional species.}}
Ray fallaciously concludes the entire theory of evolution is based on a single intermediate. However, scientists have discovered thousands of transitional fossils and the theory of evolution does not rest on a single intermediate, nor does it rest solely on fossils. This is a [[god of the gaps]] fallacy. In fact, every fossil is a transitional fossil, which has been pointed out to Ray in [[Rational Response Squad debate with Way of the Master|a debate with the Rational Response Squad]]. In 1999, National Academy of Sciences reported that the total number of transitional fossils were so large, lots of biologists and paleontologists now consider that list “innumerable” especially since the tally of definite transitionals keeps growing so fast! Several lineages are now virtually complete, including our own. Every species living today has definite relatives both extant and extinct, and evident in the fossil record. And in one sense, all of them, even the things still alive, count as transitional species.}}


Ray provides a quote from Berkley University that evolution is a testable, observable phenomenon and a fact. Ray then says scientists believe creatures like Archeopteryx is an intermediate fossil. Ray disagrees, calling it a full bird while providing a reference to an article from [[wikipedia: Answers in Genesis|Answers in Genesis]].  
Ray provides a quote from Berkley University that evolution is a testable, observable phenomenon and a fact. Ray then says scientists believe creatures like Archeopteryx is an intermediate fossil. Ray disagrees, calling it a full bird while providing a reference to an article from [[wikipedia: Answers in Genesis|Answers in Genesis]].  
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