RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
April 21, 2014 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 6:49 pm by pocaracas.)
(April 21, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Revelation777 Wrote:(April 21, 2014 at 9:49 am)pocaracas Wrote: Ah... here they come!
The hounds of the creationist!
"kind"? What the heck does that mean? Species? Genus? Family? Order? Class? Phylum? Kingdom? or Domain?
Second, there are a myriad of transitional fossils collecting dust in museums all over the world!
Here's just one example for which we do have fossils, The elephant:
On top of that, fossilization is an extremely rare event. Just think of all the humans from before the 20th Century for which fossils have been found... and all those that have vanished.
Given that it is rare, some holes are expected in the fossil record. The amazing thing is that we have so few holes as we do!
Last, the trilobite... what have they done to you, to deserve such unflattering representation?
They show up on the fossil record around 521 million years ago. Remember when I said fossilization is a rare event? Well, the farther back in time we go, the harder it is to find fossils... and this was a time on the planet's history when all life was underwater, making it even more difficult to generate fossils...
Just because we have no fossil evidence, it doesn't mean that they didn't evolve from something else.... what it was, we may never know... it may be lost to geology and plate tectonics and erosion.
You do know what a fossil is, don't you?
drawings of foot bones and sketches are unconvincing to me
3 points I addressed.... you decided to speak of one of them.... and in a very rude and crude manner... not to say something "minimalist-like".
In the 2 lines preceding the "drawings and sketches", what did I write?
Care to tell me?
What was the very relevant piece of information I relayed to you by the form of writing on an online forum?
Did you understand it?
Clearly not, or else you wouldn't have taken the time to write that turd I'm quoting above!
Were you perhaps expecting me to send you, via this very online forum, the actual fossils, the millions of fossils from thousands and thousands of different locations, depths and plant and animal species??
And did you expect to understand from what sort of plant or animal that ancient fossil came from?
Can you even grasp the number of different fields of knowledge and science that are required to identify one fossil?
Let go of your lying and conning sites and learn from the people who actually work in the fields of science you are trying to address.
Do you know what a fossil is?
