Is evolution based on empirical science?

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Runa216 said:

Boutros 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.  

Although I don't the see the link between my post and your reply lol, I think it's pretty obvious that evolution was affected by the different great extinctions.

The point was that the fact that things go extinct does not prove evolution happens.  The two are not intrinsically linked.  they effect one another, sure, but one oes not prove the other, which was the point of the thread. 

Where do new species come from then?

I know, sure there's the whole thing about "oh tectonics and pressure and rainwater make strata only "appear" to be millions of years old". So why were only specific animals found in each strata?

Looking at the Earth like a pile of pancakes, how come we find oil at the bottom (dead animals), old ass fish and primitive life on the next one up, dinosaurs on the next, mammals on the next, etc etc etc? How come the ones we do find on different layers always end up being one in a million? Understanding that, where the fuck did these new animals come from?