Would you explain the difference - in your mind - between "evolution", which you think is bunk, and "natural selection"?
Betelg- The difference I see is this. Natural selection is the effect of enviroment on any given animal or plant and the changes it causes within that species. For example, over a long amount of time horses becoming taller and faster due to natural selection as the smaller and weaker ones are killed off. As the taller ones breed with other taller ones their offspring are naturally taller as well.
Evolutionary science says that random gene mutation causes changes in species that over time turn it into completely different species. However, natural selection refutes many of the claims made in evolutionary science. For example, the claim that dinosaurs had wings and evolved into birds over millions of years. Having wings that cannot fly and would certainly cause the animal to run slower due to drag would be a hindrance to any dinosaur. Thus due to natural selection these any flightless bird dinosaur would die off due to natural selection.
Additionaly, although the fossil record for all animals is vastly incomplete the fossils that can be traced for literally millions of years show virtually no change whatsover. These include the Gar, army ants, Coelacanth, alligators, crocodiles, dragonflys, cycads, horshoe crab, laotian rock rat, sturgeon, tuatara, velvet worm, salamandar, etc.
Here, are some quotes on the subject from actual scientists!
Living Fossil Quotes
Niles Eldredge, Curator, American Museum Of Natural History, under the heading "Living Fossils", in his book, FOSSILS, 1991.
"...there seems to have been almost no change in any part we can compare between the living organism and its fossilized progenitors of the remote geological past. Living fossils embody the theme of evolutionary stability to an extreme degree. ....We have not completely solved the riddle of living to an extreme degree. ....We have not completely solved the riddle of living fossils. " p.101, 108
"...were thought to have been extinct by the end of the Middle Devonian [385 MYA]. Modern Neopilina species, however, were dredged from the deep oceans in the 1950's..." p.101
P. Arduini and G. Teruzzi cite Neopilina as an example, PREHISTORIC ATLAS, 1982.
"There are also numerous organisms, in the present day fauna and flora, which can be regarded as living fossils; one of the best known among them is Neopilina, the only living representative of a class of mollusks...thought to have been extinct for 350 million years before 1957, when Neopilina was caught off the coast of Costa Rica." , p.78
"The Gingko biloba is the sole surviving species of a very old group of gymnosperms which died out 100 million years ago." PREHISTORIC ATLAS, 1982, p.78
Keith S. Thomson, Ex. Officer, Academy of Natural Sciences. LIVING FOSSIL, 1991
"Off the coast of southern Africa, in the winter of 1938, a fishing boat called The Nerine dragged from the Indian Ocean near the Chalumna River a fish thought to be extinct for 70 million years. The fish was a coelacanth, an animal that thrived concurrently with dinosaurs..." From bookcover.
"The first members of this group appeared some 424 million years ago in the Silurian and look quite like the modern forms. The last fossils became extinct about 50 million years ago." p.72
"This species was widespread and reasonably common in the Pliocene of North America... The tree was thought to be extinct worldwide until living specimens were found in central China in 1945." p.72
Sue Rigby, British Geological Survey, Nature Vol.363, p.209, 3/18/93
"All paleontologist dream of finding a 'living fossil.' Noel Dilly, it seems has done so... As graptolites are arguably the most important zone fossils of the Lower Palaeozoic (570-360 million years before the present), this is far from an esoteric issue."