Where are all the fossils showing goop evolving into dinosaurs, and then later, humans?

Question

For the processes to take millions of years, there must be trillions of fossils. Where are they??

And if humans and dinosaurs didn't roam the earth simultaneously, why are there ancient art depictions of them and other large serpent-like beings, like on Cambodian temples, the Ica stones in Peru, by the Anasazi Indians of Utah and Yarru tribe of Australia, and Bishop Bell’s brass behemoths? All based off imagination, or reality??

Answer 1

Amen, sister. Preach it



God Bless, The truth will set ya free

Answer 2

Fossilisation is a very rare process; most plants and animals degrade to dust before they can be fossilised. Also, goop doesn't fossilise well.



What you have done here is made the assumption: "some things get fossilised, therefore all things must get fossilised, therefore we should be able to see all the things that ever lived in the fossil record". That's an invalid assumption.



The so-called dinosaurs in ancient art are imagination and wishful thinking on the part of the viewer. There are thousands of woolly mammoth remains, some very well preserved and some with signs of being hunted by humans. Where are the comparable dinosaur remains?

Answer 3

You need to understand how fossils are formed. There are only certain, limited circumstances that lead to fossilisation. Most of the time, bones and bodies rot away. http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/whatisafossil.htm



However, the fossil record - given that we've only been compiling it for about 150 years - is massibve and DOES show transitional fossils. http://www.fossilrecord.net/



As for the cave paintings, there are 18c paintings of dragons. Are these real too?

Do you not think that an Inca might have found a dinosaur skull too, and drawn the monster he thought it belonged to? The places you mention are all rich in fossils



And if the Bishop Bell thing is 'true' then there were dinosaurs in the UK in 15 Century! Funny, I don't remember them in Chaucer...

Answer 4

But we do have many fossils of transitional forms. Just go to a museum of natural history.



Failing that, you'll find transitional fossils by a simple google search. Look, it took me ten seconds to dig these up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/lines/IAtransitional.shtml

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/lines_03



Edit: You see, cells don't leave fossils. One has to have a skeleton or exoskeleton to leave a fossil, not to mention happen to fall to one's death into an air-less environment in order to preserve it, which is why there are so few before the Cambrian era.



All evolution works by gradual change, so you'll never find a half-bacteria half-animal. Instead you'll find a long line of gradually evolving forms. As I've said from before the Cambrian era we don't have nearly that much fossils but more recent evolution is well-supported. For example the evolution of the birds from dinosaurs is well-documented. And clearly that is macro-level evolution



Here's also some contemporary observed instances of evolution: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/a-natural-selection/

In one case mentioned in that link, we saw a completely new function (cecal valves) emerge in Croatian lizards in just under 50 years. Just think what could be achieved in millions.

Answer 5

The White cliffs of Dover are made of the skeleton remains of fossilized creatures

to small to be seen, should be a few billion there alone.



As for the depictions, look at them closely, they are more of snakes

and over active imagination then dinosaurs.

Answer 6

interesting answer, Peanut, yet somewhat off question. that may no longer real in any respect, youthful lady. Mammals developed from mammalformes called " synapsids " ( the mammal like reptile ) particularly, this organism, which arose approximately 70 million years in the past, replace into no longer a reptile, yet emerged from the person-friendly ancestor, called an aminiote. From the aminiote arose the sauropsid, which gave upward thrust to the dinosaurs, between different reptiles and the synapsids, which gave upward thrust to mammals. And, for sure, extra back is yet another branch factor that gave upward thrust to aminiotes. we are able to forgo that taxonomy this night.

Answer 7

"For the processes to take millions of years, there must be trillions of fossils."



a) billions actually

b) not everything fossilizes by default

c) there ARE tons of fossils.



"why are there ancient art depictions of them and other large serpent-like beings"



Fossils, imagination. I'm pretty sure a t-rex skull would lead to some impressive daydreams. Are you now claiming everything depicted in art is real? That would be stupid even by your standards.

Answer 8

Duly noted. I'm more intrigued about the lack of active transitional species. If conditions were ideal for their sufficient proliferation at one time, then why are they all gone now? Why don't we have Neanderthals today, who themselves have evolved from the preceding species in the evolutionary line? Also, if the notion of species devlopment is a continuous principle, then why can't similar species -- such as humans and primates -- mate and have offspring?

Answer 9

"I mean fossils of the cells turning into animals"

Cells can't be.....



Why am I bothering?



You're not interested in knowledge.

All you want to do is break down Theory of Evolution(impossible) and thereby claim your GODDIDIT by MAGIC by default.



Why don't you people came up with another theory?

Cos you have nothing.

Why can't you be constructive for a change?

Cos it's all doom and gloom.



Damn, but you're a tiring bunch of negatives.

~

Answer 10

Fossils. How do they work?





Your notion of what fossils ARE is wrong, and your notion of the probability of fossilization is wrong. Congratulations. That's just your first TWO lines. I didn't even bother getting to your last paragraph.

Answer 11

They are in the minds of man.