Sherlock Holmes
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I expect more than one example of something before I believe it is a member of a set of many. Again, Anomalocaris is claimed to be a step along a path of evolutionary development, yet we see no credible trace of other members of this set.Do you expect a continuous fossil record going back over 500 million years?
Anomalocaris must have had hundreds of thousands of progenitors, each differing slightly from its own parents or offspring. It is rational and reasonable to therefore expect examples of these, we should see traces of these subtly varying ancestors but we only see Anomalocaris.
This is the fossil record in general, it doesn't show any kind of reasonable evidence of such gradual transformation. As other have said, if these complex fauna were just created "wham" by some process, we'd expect to see what we do see in the fossil record, it is consistent with a dramatic event that cannot be reconciled with the idea of evolution.
That's the evidence, you can interpret that evidence as you personally choose to, but don't lie to yourself, don't argue that it's unreasonable to consider a dramatic sudden event, don't pretend that the hypothesis doesn't need evidence.
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