(January 25, 2012 at 8:32 pm)Undeceived Wrote: The point is that we have gaps of hundreds of millions of years. We have multiple fossils of most fossilized organisms, but none of the vital others. For instance, there are hundreds of discovered trilobite fossils. Yet not one is varied from the rest. There should be another hundred with one mutation difference, another hundred with an additional one, and so on. If evolution really happened gradually, the number of varied trilobites should greatly outnumber the originals, all the way down to the horshoe crab. Thousands of generations aren't in the fossil record at all.
You seem to not be understanding how lucky we are to have the fossils we have. We're lucky to know about trilobites because of the few fossils which were left behind. Of course there are gaps, because fossilization doesn't happen every time a plant or animal dies. The answer is that we don't know how many different types of trilobites there were, since we only have fossils of a few. But when you look at the similarities in different kinds of animals, you can usually make the logical connection.
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