I found this interesting link over on Intelligent Design The Future, it’s a further link to an Amazon page for the book “Billions of Missing Links”. It is billed as a rational look at the mysteries science cannot explain, however I would never use the word “cannot” how about “has yet to explain”, this would be an accurate, however less sensationalist description.
It’s true science has yet to explain everything, and each discovery in turn raises more questions, this is how knowledge advances. The book essentially complains that each fossil we find creates more “missing links” it is apparent that the Intelligent Design crowd will never be satisfied unless every living thing on this earth has fossilized and we’ve uncovered all these non-existent fossils. They’ve completely bypassed any version of “reasonable” evidence and will use even the tiniest gap to shoehorn their views in. This is the “god of the gaps” argument taken to an irrational extreme.
The fact is that every fossil is transitional, evolution doesn’t stop (although evidence does show that it may slow down for periods of time), and every species is on it’s way to becoming an entirely new species guided by the forces of natural selection.
To take a quote from the post, “Every “link” discovered brings many more questions (missing links) than answers”. Of course it does! This is how science works, each discovery leads to more questions which leads to more discoveries. This isn’t lik escripture where you write it down, close the book and it’s done. Knowledge is continously being uncovered, questions being answered which lead to new and better questions. If a discovery ended all questions than science would grind to a halt. We’d know all we could ever possibly want to know about the universe. Of course this is what the ID movement and it’s theist backers want. They want science to come to a halt, as we’ve entered a dawn of discovery that has already squeezed thier bronze-age myths into irrelevance.