The First Principles of Created Kinds

[T_aquaticus]

@AJRoberts

Calling the absence of evidence “a gap” is a theory laden evaluation. A lack of evidence is just that. The data, or actual observations (not “gaps”), can be fit to a variety of competing models. If one cannot see this one is too entrenched in one’s own paradigm. This is the hurdle for most meaningful dialogue and affects salaried professionals, the general public, and all other categories of people in between.

Would you agree that we can’t use gaps in our current fossil collections as evidence for a gap in life’s history?