When Republican pols and pundits lie, they expect us to accept their lies by faith, but when scientists are truthful, Republicans demand absolute proof. Personally, as a Christian (authentic, not Republican Supply-side Christianity), I have no trouble reconciling faith with acceptance of that theory, with the reservations that certain Republicans make it evident that devolution is also in at work. But Jack Kingston (R-GA) demands to see the missing link. We can oblige.

On Real Time with Bill Maher, Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) apparently wants to see some kind of manfishnewt before he will accept evolution (For Southpark fans, that would be half-man, half-fish, and half-newt ). Which, if ever found, would utterly destroy our understanding of human evolution along with a giant chunk of vertebrate biology. But I digress, and we can — loosely and liberally — credit Kingston for grasping blindly toward a transitional tetrapod. So presumably, as long as it’s not Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Hynerpeton or any of the dozens of fossils found at the exact geologic time and coincidentally with the exact suite of traits which bridge the transition from early fish to the first amphibians, Kingston will be convinced. Let’s watch: Kingston also demands a missing link. By which we can again loosely infer he means fossils demonstrating a mix of early and more modern hominid traits… [emphasis added]

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