Topic: Evolution
Quote: So many questions arise in the study of fossils (paleontology) that even many evolutionary paleontologists put little stock in the fossil record. Basing one\'s belief in evolution on the shaky ground of paleontology can scarcely be considered scientific.35\n"We are about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million species but the situation hasn\'t changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin\'s time." - Dr. David M. Raup, Curator of Geology, Museum of Natural History, Chicago14 (http://www.straight-talk.net/evolution/fossil.htm)
Response: Gee, gives the impression that Dr. David M. Raup, Curator of Geology, Museum of Natural History, Chicago, puts little stock in the fossil record and rejects evolution, helping support the preceding assertion that surely one\xe2\x80\x99s belief in evolution based on paleontology can scarcely be considered scientific.\nBut that\xe2\x80\x99s not at all what Dr. Raup was stating. While Googling for a fuller quote, I ran across a page that showed how this \xe2\x80\x93 and many other \xe2\x80\x93 statements by Dr. Raup were distorted by Creationists. \nTo start with, here is a fuller quote:\n
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