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Giford Posted Jun 28, 2007
Hi O,
Not sure if you're having a laugh at 'evidence' against evolution or genuinely posting some. I suspect the former, but just in case...
These are all from around 60 - 50 million years ago. Insects first appear as fossils over 300 million years ago. When they did first appear, they were considerably less diverse than they are today (although diverse enough that we should expect there to be substantially older insect fossils we have not yet found).
What these amber remains show is that there has been no significant evolutionary change to some varieties of insects in the last 50 million years - something no 'evolutionist' would deny. Even butterflies - comparatively recent as insects go - are around 65 million years old.
Show me a butterfly in 90 million year-old amber and I'll be impressed, but even that wouldn't 'refute evolution' I'm afraid.
I believe the definitive textbook on the subject is: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521821490
Gif 
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