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I'm still waiting to see the hundreds of millions of fossilized transitional life forms. They have to be somewhere in order to make evolution plausible.
Many times those transitions are sitting right in front of our eyes and we don't recognize them. It took many years to recognize what now seems obvious -- bird are the descendants of the dinosaurs.
I keep waiting for the fundamentalists to explain how any of their stuff happened other than magic.
The premise in the title of this thread has now been proven wrong. In 24 hours, there have been over 100 posts to this thread, many from the left, so is it not true that the "left never talks about" this.
Many times those transitions are sitting right in front of our eyes and we don't recognize them. It took many years to recognize what now seems obvious -- bird are the descendants of the dinosaurs.
I keep waiting for the fundamentalists to explain how any of their stuff happened other than magic.
It's very interesting, however, that you cannot provide any of these fossilized transitional life forms.
You keep saying they're all around us, but you don't have any. There are probably 10 posts on this thread alone, where pro-evolutionists are saying, "But there ARE transitional life forms!!!" Yet none of you has produced any - or pointed the way to any.
And again, I'm asking you... Should there not - of necessity - be hundreds of millions of said fossilized transitional life forms? Incremental evolution demands the presence of millions of them.
You say that birds are descendants of dinosaurs, but you don't have any sequential fossils evidencing an incremental transition. You just say it happened.
Well... Where's the evidence?
Also, you can drop the little "fundamentalist" condescension. That's a derogatory deflection that doesn't apply to me in any way.
It's very interesting, however, that you cannot provide any of these fossilized transitional life forms.
You keep saying they're all around us, but you don't have any.
You say that birds are descendants of dinosaurs, but you don't have any sequential fossils evidencing an incremental transition. You just say it happened.
Well... Where's the evidence?
In the early 1990s some obviously non-avian dinosaur fossils were discovered with preserved feathers. Today we know of more than twenty genera of dinosaurs with fossil feathers. Hell, the fossil feathers of one of them -- Shuvuuia deserti -- have tested positive for beta-keratin which is the main protein in bird feathers.
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In the early 1990s some obviously non-avian dinosaur fossils were discovered with preserved feathers. Today we know of more than twenty genera of dinosaurs with fossil feather. Hell, the fossil feathers of one of them -- Shuvuuia deserti -- have tested positive for beta-keratin which is the main protein in bird feathers.
Sure. But where are the hundreds of millions that are necessary evidence?
Or do you believe that there weren't billions of transitional life forms? Is that not a fundamental premise of the theory of evolution - that billions of microscopic changes took place over hundreds of millions of years?
So again, where are the fossilized remains of hundreds of millions of transitional life forms? If these remains cannot be produced, you must admit to yourself that you've got a problem with your theory.
Sure. But where are the hundreds of millions that are necessary evidence?
Or do you believe that there weren't billions of transitional life forms? Is that not a fundamental premise of the theory of evolution - that billions of microscopic changes took place over hundreds of millions of years?
So again, where are the fossilized remains of hundreds of millions of transitional life forms? If these remains cannot be produced, you must admit to yourself that you've got a problem with your theory.
Where are the hundreds of millions of dead human beings that have existed over the millenia? Can't find 'em? Gosh, then they didn't exist!
Things die, they rot, they get eaten, they're gone. It takes a very specific situation to form a fossil, and most things that die don't die under the circumstances necessary to create one.
Where are the hundreds of millions of dead human beings that have existed over the millenia? Can't find 'em? Gosh, then they didn't exist!
Things die, they rot, they get eaten, they're gone. It takes a very specific situation to form a fossil, and most things that die don't die under the circumstances necessary to create one.
Come on, even you can't be that ignorant?
I'm not ignorant enough to fall for that fallacy, no.
Why not just admit that you have a major problem with your theory of evolution - and that problem is the overwhelming lack of fossil evidence. Therefore, you're basically left with making stuff up.
What you're making up might be true. But you really don't have much of anything to back it up.
Lack of evidence does not disprove a theory bases on limited but actual evidence. There were literally millions of dinosaurs but there are very few fossils. That does not make dinosaurs impossible. Only one fossil makes the dinosaurs exist. The theory does not require all the transitions to prove the relationship.
BTW - I was in grade school when I thought the dinosaurs were killed and did not just stop evolving and that Geese looked a lot like small duck billed dinosaurs. Nice to know I was correct.
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