In a letter to the Daily News Saturday, one Jules Dubuisson asserts that “no one has ever witnessed an event of evolution, nor has a credible transitional form ever been discovered.”
Wrong on both counts. There have been cases of “speciation” in the present (one generation produces offspring different enough to count as a viable separate species) and there have been many transitional forms found in the fossil record (between mammal and reptile, between land and sea dwellers, etc.).
Possibly the poor man has been fooled by the creationists who’s response to finding any transitional form is “Well, what about the transitional form between that and the next step! Until you find every single transitional form, I’m not convinced!”
Given their motivation is religion, not science, I’m quite sure that if fossils of every living thing ever to walk the earth turned up, they’d still find the record inadequate.
I do agree with Dubuisson that children should look at creationism and intelligent design along with evolution, so that they can be taught how totally unscientific, false and inaccurate they are. Oh, wait, he thought we should teach them as if they had some grounding in science, didn’t he?
So I guess he’s wrong about everything.

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