46% of Americans believe in Creationism

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Final-Fan said:

OooSnap said:
Another thing that totally destroys the evolution story (to me at least) are "living fossils" and amber fossils.
How convenient a lot of these organisms didn't evolve over 100+ million years. "They don't need to evolve" = a cheap cop-out that only dogmatic evolutionists would buy.

Why is it a cheap cop-out that some animals evolve dramatically and some don't? 

I've been hesitant to jump in here, but if the explanation is that some animals evolve and some don't (and I'm sure it's more complicated), the problem would be that the explanation is post-hoc, meaning that it's added after the fact to address deviations from the theory, and adds little to no theoretical value to the explanation. The key point being that you would need a mechanism to explain and predict the deviations that are observed. Just to be clear, I have no clue if biology has provided an explanation or not.....it's not my area of expertise and my knowledge comes from a handful of casual readers on the subject.