[on unicorns]
Many creatures have gone extinct down through time. I am pretty sure that there are still zero fossilized buffaloes (just regular buffaloes, like those that roamed the American West by the millions in the early 19th Century). Yet they existed, and a few yet survive - even though we find (if I recall correctly) not a single one at all in the fossil record.
So we may not have a representative fossil for the unicorn specifically. Maybe they were hunted to extinction or their preferred food sources were destroyed by man or environmental changes. Maybe there were once millions of them, but not a single fossil at all remains. Realistic enough for you? ;-) Look at our real history of thousands of recorded years, human propensities, how rapidly the world’s climates have changed, and then ponder the once present unicorn. The puzzle pieces are there and ready to be assembled by the wise.
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I mean, what they have here is a perfectly logical counter to their claim of "no transitional forms = no evo" (if it weren't patently false already, of course).
But when you add in a.) a complete lack of time-scale and b.) friggin' unicorns, what you is get an epic, stinky, bubbling pile of FAIL.
Many creatures have gone extinct down through time. I am pretty sure that there are still zero fossilized buffaloes (just regular buffaloes, like those that roamed the American West by the millions in the early 19th Century). Yet they existed, and a few yet survive - even though we find (if I recall correctly) not a single one at all in the fossil record.
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Need some ketchup for your words?
The reason we don't have buffalo fossils is because God hasn't got round to it yet. He has to wait until no-one is looking, so he can sneak down, place the fossils and trick all the intelligent people into going to Hell.
The puzzle pieces are there and ready to be assembled by the wise.
Um, the wise have been at work for about a couple centuries.
The picture on the puzzle represents not only evolution of species, but the progressive evolution of the planet.
I'd say the unicorn fossil would look somewhat like that of a rhinoceros.
If you were truly a fan of science, you would have realized by now that there are no buffalo in the Americas. There are , however, bison, which are often referred to as buffalo, and it takes a very long time for fossilization to occur, say, millions of years. The opportunity has not come up for the bison very often, though your brain seems to have defied logic by fossilizing inside your head.
Oh, I thought it was because a creature that's exactly the same as a horse, but with a horn, possibly wings, fluorescent-white fur, and a rainbow contrail was bullshit, but I guess not.
So we may not have a representative fossil for the unicorn specifically.
We don't find them in the Bible, either. The Bible mentions the re'em, an unknown Hebrew word that got translated as "unicorn" in Greek translations. The consensus today is it refers to the extinct wild ox. That's how pretty much every other Bible since the KJV has translated the word.
Usual speil about buffalo and bisons, all been done before, plus the very nice fossil pictures.
There are also instances of buffalo being trapped in the Siberian ice and being preserved to this day.
Oh, come on, man, just read the stats in your D&D Monster Manual -- the unicorn is explicitly listed as Rare, so the odds of finding a fossil of one are virtually nil. Of course, the fact that it's a fantasy creature probably factors into this problem as well.
~David D.G.
So you mean...
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is a real event?
"Maybe there were once millions of them, but not a single fossil at all remains."
Yyyyyyyyyyyeeeesssss... But you could say the same thing for Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Chocobos.
There's no good reason why unicorns COULDN'T have existed at some point, we just have no evidence for it. We have horses. We have horned mammals. Hypothetically, it's not that big of an evolutionary stretch to have horses with a horn.
I don't think it happened, but I think the bison/buffalo mix-up and complete non-understanding of fossils are more important (or equally important) than his proposition of unicorn existence.
I think you should ask yourself 'How often in Nature does one actually find an animal that is exactly like another, but with something stupid added?'
You will find this almost never happens.
Correct, we have no buffalo fossils. Plenty of BONES, but no fossils. Give it a few million years, and we might find some, though.
I'm not even gonna touch that unicorn bullshit...
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