The report of creationists deploying the tactic in question (finding a transitional fossil where one was not previously creates two gaps that now need to be filled by other fossils), is not a Poe.
As a very active member of the Richard Dawkins Foundation Forums (RDF), I can tell you that I have seen this ploy used on more occasions than I can count.
This is in addition to people who think that Evolution also means that there should exist the Crockoduck, the Cat-dog, and the Bird-fish (to name just a few), or that Evolution means that Polar Bears had the Color scared off of them (attributed to one Richard Byers, notorious for Stoopid on the RDF. We never discovered what exactly scared Polar Bears white as he was banned for violations of the user’s agreement before he could get around to describing the process of being scared white).
Now, I must read the rest of this article. Just wanted to clear this up. If anyone is interested, I am sure that I could get exact links to the posts on RDF that make such claims. Although they represent the most insipid and fanatic of religious persons in the world, they remain terrifying that anyone could remain so willfully ignorant in the face of experts (there are more than a few real scientists on the RDF in the fields of Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Cog Sci).
The report of creationists deploying the tactic in question (finding a transitional fossil where one was not previously creates two gaps that now need to be filled by other fossils), is not a Poe.
As a very active member of the Richard Dawkins Foundation Forums (RDF), I can tell you that I have seen this ploy used on more occasions than I can count.
This is in addition to people who think that Evolution also means that there should exist the Crockoduck, the Cat-dog, and the Bird-fish (to name just a few), or that Evolution means that Polar Bears had the Color scared off of them (attributed to one Richard Byers, notorious for Stoopid on the RDF. We never discovered what exactly scared Polar Bears white as he was banned for violations of the user’s agreement before he could get around to describing the process of being scared white).
Now, I must read the rest of this article. Just wanted to clear this up. If anyone is interested, I am sure that I could get exact links to the posts on RDF that make such claims. Although they represent the most insipid and fanatic of religious persons in the world, they remain terrifying that anyone could remain so willfully ignorant in the face of experts (there are more than a few real scientists on the RDF in the fields of Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Cog Sci).