Atheists and Evolutionists a question for you?

Question

If the theory of evolution was true, we should have discovered millions upon millions of transitional fossils that show the development of one species into another species. Instead, we have zero.

When Charles Darwin came up with his theory, he admitted that no transitional forms had been found at that time, but he believed that huge numbers certainly existed and would eventually be discovered

He even said “Lastly, looking not to any one time, but to all time, if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed. But, as by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?”

but still we have found ZERO

Answer 1

Why do you LIE when you ask atheists and evolutionists your question?



In the first place you LIED by your incomplete and transposed quote from Darwin. Darwin answered that question by noting the imperfection of the fossil record.



Furthermore, you LIED when you said there are zero transitional forms. There are a great many transitional forms in the fossil record that have been found since Darwin's time. All you have to do to find them is to do a search on the Internet and staying away from the LYING creationist web sites you visit.



Here, take a look at this for starters.



http://www.theistic-evolution.com/hominids2_big.jpg

Answer 2

Ok first question:



Would any of what I'm going to say change your mind? If not, don't read my answer, as much as I'd like you to read it and think about it. If so, read on. If you're lazy, check out the TL;DR



Even if Darwin did say that, I would question his ability to make an accurate prediction considering he hasn't found any transition fossils and no one else has even looked. That being said...



What is a transition fossil? The fossil of a species between two others? The fossil directly between two species? The fossil between the halfway point between two species and the species itself? This kind of gap can only keep going until you are happy with every fossil between plants and humans, and that is simply not going to happen because of the way the fossils form.



There are very specific ways that fossils form and not everything dies in that way (some of them are quite graphic, like being sucked into tar and drowning to death), so we aren't going to find fossils for every branch at every time frame.



And we have found fossils that are "transitions" from one species to the next. There was a fossil found of the first animal that would "walk." It still had flippers and still swam for the most part, but it could come up on land and stay there for a bit. We've found almsot every major evolutionary fossil of humans since they branched off from our common ancestor. We've seen evolution in action and even the beginnings of it. Elephants are les likely to have tusks (because of hunters), the california slamander has almost become two different species and researched watched that one happen!



Besides, DNA evidence is far better a research tool and has been used far more extensively.



I don't know how you DON'T think evolution is true.



TL;DR It is rare for fossils to form. DNA is a better tool anyways (and more abundant). We have found transitional fossils. AND it would be ridiculous to need that kind of evidence to believe in something that already has tons of evidence.

Answer 3

If the theory of evolution was true, we should have discovered millions upon millions of transitional fossils that show the development of one species into another species.



- And since they exist in every museum in the world, what is your question?



When Charles Darwin came up with his theory, he admitted that no transitional forms had been found at that time,



- He didn't know about DNA either. SO?



but still we have found ZERO



- Maybe you have found zero, but paleontologists for more than a century have found your millions. Try reading something intelligent.

Answer 4

"we should have discovered millions upon millions of transitional fossils"



You are working under the assumption that all creatures that ever existed will be fossilized can later discovered. That is just not so. Organisms are only rarely preserved as fossils in the best of circumstances, and only a fraction of such fossils have been discovered. This is illustrated by the fact that the number of species known through the fossil record is less than 5% of the number of known living species, suggesting that the number of species known through fossils must be far less than 1% of all the species that have ever lived. Because of the specialized and rare circumstances required for a biological structure to fossilize, only a small percentage of life-forms can be expected to be represented in discoveries, and each discovery represents only a snapshot of the process of evolution. The transition itself can only be illustrated and corroborated by transitional fossils, which will never demonstrate an exact half-way point.



The fossil record is heavily slanted toward organisms with hard parts, leaving most groups of soft-bodied organisms with little to no role. It is replete with the mollusks, the vertebrates, the echinoderms, the brachiopods and some groups of arthropods.

Answer 5

"we should have discovered millions upon millions of transitional fossils that show the development of one species into another species. Instead, we have zero."



That may have been true when Darwin lived, but not anymore. There are plenty of transitional species. Here are some lists of SOME of those:

http://www.transitionalfossils.com/

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



Both pages have a list of references at the end. You're free to read those as well.



But we both know you're not really looking to learn something, right? You just want someone to tell you what you want to hear and reassure your beliefs.

Answer 6

Atheists and Evolutionists a question for you?



Why do you keep trotting out the same old untruths again and again after they have been comprehensively debunked over and over again. Are you realty so wilfully ignorant or just intent on making a complete **** of yourself?

Answer 7

You are completely wrong. Since Darwin did his work 150 years ago many fossils have been found that have characteristics of both an earlier species and more modern species. All fossils are "transitional" since they are an intermediary of between what was and what will be, but your question is based on incorrect information often repeated by Creations Apologists.

Answer 8

>"Instead, we have zero."

Wrong. EVERY fossil is a "transitional fossil". Also the conditions to form fossils are fairly rare. However, all it would take to disprove evolution would be to find a fossil "out of order" in the fossil record. Evolution has passed this test so far with flying colors.



And another thing, even if somehow you did prove that evolution was wrong, that's doesn't automatically mean "therefore Goddidit". That's a false dichotomy.

Answer 9

(Genesis 6:1, 2) 6 Now when men started to grow in number on the surface of the ground and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of the true God began to notice that the daughters of men were beautiful. So they began taking as wives all whom they chose.

Wicked angels came to earth and did a lot of things. In fact, they probably knew cloning and making other animals that were ferrous. We do not fully know all the harm they did. Instead of evolution God made everything from plants to animals with the ability to adapt to their environment. So it is more a case of adaptation. The birds he spoke of as changing were still birds. They did not change into dogs or cats.

Answer 10

Obviously, you don't know much about the process of fossilization, do you?



Only a tiny percentage of living creatures will ever end up as fossils.



It's really that simple.

Answer 11

Out of the billions of animals that have lived, we have a very small sample size of what was, there have been a couple of species found that fall under that transitional tag that you speak of.

Answer 12

Wow, so wrong.



Evolution was found (and not by Darwin) BECAUSE of traditional fossils. Didn't you know that? Apparently not.

Answer 13

Trolls, what a waste...



IMHO

Answer 14

evolutionism is going by the wayside because it's unscientific and a known fraud



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf32BXMSN7A&list=WL&index=55

Answer 15

sorry - but they have been now

do some research and update your argument

Answer 16

troll fail.