Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
Absolutely it is the same species. And your crime analogy makes no sense in the context of this discussion. In your murder case, you've already collected all the evidence needed. In evolution, the most important piece of evidence is still missing.

The fossil record contains an event known as the Cambrian Explosion. It's a sudden, unexplainable appearance of a great number of groups of animals. Darwin wrote about this phenomenon in The Origin of Species. "If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory to descent with slow modification though natural selection". So I cannot accept the fossil record as support for the theory of evolution.

Darwin says such an event would kill his theory, yet it happened. How do you reconcile that? If evolution happens over many many many generations, how can so many groups of animals come into existence in the same period? All I'm trying to do here is dispel the myth that evolution is founded on science and fact. You said it yourself. Providing the key piece of evidence that would prove Darwin's theory would be a miracle, so it takes just as much faith for you to believe in evolution as it does for me to believe in God.
The Cambrian Explosion wasn't numerous species all starting into life at once. The evolutions did happen rapidly, but such rapid evolution has been seen at other times in history and usually after mass extinctions, which makes sense in terms of evolution.