Question:
Creationists: How can we show you a transitional fossil if you will not define this term for us?
El Nerdo Loco
2012-07-18 01:28:11 UTC
If you can tell me what a transitional fossil is for you, please do so. I've already asked twice.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arj7CRqkCP5jRIq2P4ELvuTsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120717011300AA0DLEN

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmBJQmLk8PwqfU4vlmeCn97sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20120717195927AArq1ea

I have not yet received a definition or example of a what a transitional fossil would be. I have not even had anyone give me a resource to find this definition in even though I asked for one in both questions. So it seems to me that you occupy a place where you demand we present you with something which you can dismiss simply by virtue of having no specific definition you must accept.

Is there anything you can imagine that could qualify as a transitional form? Would it be something possible according to evolutionary theory? I seriously have no idea what you want.
Twelve answers:
Mike B
2012-07-18 01:59:11 UTC
The funniest thing about this is that a lot of the people answering simply do not have knowledge of the things they are talking about, Gregory is a wonderful example of this.



Dinosaurs with beaks have been known for a very long time:



http://planetdi.startlogic.com/dinosaur_anatomy/dinosaur_beaks.htm



as for the wings:



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8105513.stm



getting closer.



Of course ? is correct, all species, living or extinct, are transitional, we are transitional, eventually we will evolve into something else, unless the idea that our use of technology will slow or halt our evolution.



It is a fact that the creationists cannot grasp, they have caused a lot of people to divert research into evolution to disprove a lot of what they are saying, by doing so mainstream science has increased its knowledge of evolution to the point that there is now more evidence to support in that there is anything else in science, the debate is now as dead as it is possible to get, yet the creationists still cannot give in.
2016-07-20 13:41:22 UTC
Your first error may just well be your assumption. It's most likely a legitimate argument nevertheless, exhibit me the billions of transitional fossils that may require to be in proof. It can be a valid argument since there are not any. Finally, i am now not certain what YOU imply by the time period "evolution". Most individuals don't seem to be certain of what it's. Some believe mutation and adaptation are examples of "evolution". There are actually volumes of evidences for production. Have you ever taken time to look at the proof? And yes, the Bible IS proof, as chronicled via many secular historians, as well as more modern day individuals who've regarded at the evidence in gentle of scripture. (Some very prominent legal students as well) if you need to feel that anything comes from nothing, it's most likely your option. If you'd additionally pick to try to illustrate your criticism of Christianity, it is also your option. But you have not achieved some thing more than share your opinion. You might are trying reading. There's more evidence than that you would be able to imagine, each technical and nontechnical, that even which you could realise.
2012-07-18 01:53:08 UTC
fossil-



1.The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock: "sites rich in fossils".



2.derogatory. An antiquated or stubbornly unchanging person or thing: "he can be a cantankerous old fossil at times".



A TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL is someone who remembers that creation was another possibility for the beginning and has the wisdom and power of will to carry it along in his journey to understand many DIVINE, BIBLICAL, and COMPLEX questions atheists forget to do. And as a result of his strong skeptical wisdom, he decides to accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.



I'm an example.



The Bible does mention dinosaurs just as it mentions that playing video games can be a blockage to your path to God. It doesn't identify it, but it's what it means. Or else the Bible would have been pretty fat and then people wouldn't easily receive the basic stuff.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they all drowned when God flooded the Earth. And when the rest of the dinosaurs came out of the boat, they died because of the lack of oxygen.



God bless you.
Sweenith
2012-07-18 01:51:25 UTC
I'm not at all informed about this issue, but if I had to take a stab at it:



Surely a fossil (B) is "transitional" with respect to two other fossils (A, and C) if and only if B belonged to an organism the species of which evolved from the species that the organism of fossil A belonged to, and C belonged to an organism the species of which evolved from the species that the organism of fossil B belonged to; such that, the species of fossil A existed prior to (and/or at the same time that) the species of fossil B existed, and the species of fossil B existed prior to (and/or at the same time that) the species of fossil C existed. Bam. Transitional.
Ricardo
2012-07-18 08:13:10 UTC
A transitional fossil is one that comes out of the ground with a tag that says - transitional fossil.
Someone who cares
2012-07-18 02:48:09 UTC
A transitional fossil would be a fish with a human head. Show me that.
?
2012-07-18 01:30:18 UTC
The punchline is, all fossils are transitional fossils as all species are in the process of evolving into something else
Mutations Killed Darwin Fish
2012-07-18 01:32:02 UTC
Don't be so demanding. Evolutionists don't know how to define transitional fossils.

?: You may need to brush up your knowledge of evolution by researching the term equilibrium.

Feed me: Why not simply accept the fossil record at face value instead of imposing a theory on it?
Pyriform
2012-07-18 01:41:59 UTC
This is too technical a question for R&S. We are not scientists here. You will have to ask in the 'creation science' section of Y!A.
Gregory
2012-07-18 01:37:38 UTC
how can you describe something that does not exist?



there are no transitional fossils



example a dinosaur with birds wings or a birds beak
2014-07-10 03:47:27 UTC
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?
2012-07-18 01:32:29 UTC
"I seriously have no idea what you want."



Neither do they.


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