Is evolution based on empirical science?

[Boutros]

Rath said:

Runa216 said:

Boutros said:
I guess all those fossiles were hide by sneaky scientists wanting to prove a point.

Extinction has nothing to do with Evolution, at least not in the way the Dinosaurs were said to have gone extinct.  

Two things.

1) The fossil record is one of the bodies of evidence that evolution is based on

2) Mass extinction events have heaps to do with evolution. Mass extinction empties a lot of biological niches - the extinction of the dinosaurs left all of the niches for large land fauna empty. Mammals filled the empty spots.

And to add to your argument, it's not only large land animals that were affected by the extinction between the Cretaceous and the Paleogene era (the dinosaur extinction). The most probable theory of that extinction is either mass volcanic activity or mass asteroid attack (!) that would have covered the upper sky with heavy dust that prevented light to properly reach the ground thus killing many kinds of plants. And then that lack of plants firsty affected the larger animals because of their higher food consumption but it also affected the whole food chain and killed many species.