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Originally Posted by SeeBass
Can I cut and paste this when we discuss fossil evidence for evolution?
looking for a 3000 year old city= looking for a billion year old fossil of a hybrid
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You can but, of course if you aren't looking for a particular dinosaur named Gus it probably won't prove much.
For evolution to work you have to have mutations within species which benefit that species and eventually replaces that original species. This new and improved species then exists until another mutation comes along that again is an improvement on what is already there. Even when this rare improvement occurs it would probably take thousands of years for the pre mutant species to die out.
Your talking about a ton of time for each stage of each species to change just slightly. Although the conditions for fossilization are rare they aren't that rare. It is unreasonable to expect anything less than a complete fossil record. Moreover, we should expect to find many more fossils considering how long this earth is supposed to have supported life.
With King David we are looking for writings in clay or stone which has survived constant human activity for three thousand years and mentions the King. Thanks to the Hebrew record we know the order of Kings beginning with Saul and then following the lineage of David up to 400 bce. Evidence of the existance of many of these later Kings has been verified through archeology. It is reasonable to expect that David existed as well.