peppersalt,
First off regarding the Chinuch, I didn’t say you’re wrong, all I said was I did not know it. The Ramchal in Derech Hashem indicates that is not the case, I learnt Derech Hashem, I did not learn Chinuch.
Regarding fossils.
Let me explain really clearly.
Lets take the example of Horses.
Let’s say for arguments sake that evolutionists posit that Horses had ten stages of development until they evolved to the form of Horses we have now.
A fossil record would be if the dug in one area and found a chain of ten types of Horses one after the other the “oldest” fossil being at the lowest strata the next species being at the above strata and so on.
That has never been found and the inability to find it at all is quite troubling a fact that BTW is admitted to by many honest committed evolutionists. If Evolution took place and this process was gone through by all the different species we have then somewhere there should be a record there isn’t.
What there is plenty of scattered fossils all over the world and conjecture about how one type came from another.
But thats it.
Again if you want to debate the stuff you should first read the literature on it.
The lack of a fossil record is pretty much acknowledged across the board.