Originally posted by RJHinds
The head is obviously the skull of an alligator, not a fish. It is apparent that he attached the skeleton and fins from other animals to make up his missing links like evoulotionists are known to do. The guy that found it admits, on a youtube video, he did not find what he claims is the back end of it until years later. Here is a video of the artist interp ...[text shortened]... com/watch?v=l_mpWQqNBIk
The head no longer looks like a alligator from his imagined art work.
You're making two mistakes. You seem to imply that the artist is the one who decides
whether the fossil constitutes a transitional form or not. Of course, fossils speak for
themselves, and it's the paleontologists that has the proper training to dig them out and put
them together correctly. You also seem to think that there's this great conspiracy going on
in scientific circles where the "oh so evil darwinists" attempt to push their evolutionary
agenda on people. You have to ask yourself what would be the point of that, and also ask
yourself if that's even possible. For minor hypothesises a fake or mistake may linger for
some time, but when many different scientific branches (confirmed by their individual
successes) depend on the findings of a specific branch, fakes and mistakes are quickly
identified as such, since predictions will fail or data won't add up. This is the very reason
why the scientific endevour has been so successful, so far.