If evoluion is true, where are all of the inbetween fossiles?

Question

Scientists have such imense fossil records, but not one of all of the millions of fossils show any true evolution. They can only guess what happened inbetween.
In school, they teach us that evolution is real, and only show us the facts that they want to. They dont show us all the unanswered questions that could be the true basis for why evolution isnt always right.

Answer 1

EVERY fossil is an in-between. They all show a progression from one-celled life to modern life. There are no significant missing links, if you actually were a real scientist and looked at the fossil record, you would known that.

Answer 2

What many many people fail to realise is that evolution is not a change from one thing to another over night, its agradual change that develops over many generations. The problem with the fossil record is that mainly we only see the skelatal remains of the perticualr creature not its soft tissue therefore we can not make a pure genetic translation from one fossil to another. However, it is widely accepted by those that beileve in evolution that a factor such as climate has influence over the evolutionary change. For instance if you take a look at the Bengal tiger, physiology it is different to that of the Siberian tiger most notably its ability it survive in they're respective climates i.e the fur: its thickness and its camoflage. This didnt happen by accident. Evolution is based on a genetic change that was initially accidental but became beneficial and thus was retained.Many species have similar characteristics but have changed to suit the environment - thats evolution. Changes are so sutble that its hard to see them in the fossil record, but once science has managed to map and understand the human genome it will apply this knowledge to prove the existance of evolution.

Answer 3

All over the place...

They have fossils of all sorts of animals, from one shape all the way to a different shape. For example, for humans, they have fossils of every size from about 2-foot monkey shape, to Australopithecus 3million years ago, to normal humans. I suppose you could always pick any 2 and say "but we haven't found one between these yet...".

There really aren't that many different fossils anyway. Sometimes, scientists find a place with a large collectoin of fossils all from about the same time; but usually, unless circumstances are right, the whole body including bones decays to dirt. Most of those fossils are from animals that were trapped, or died and were washed into a mudbed (lakebed, river bed, landslide) and buried in mud that kept the oxygen out so that they bones fossilized before they could decay.

There's also the problem of "punctuated equilibrium" evolution. One theory says that creatures evolve rapidly when their environment changes, but very slowly otherwise.Usually, there's barely enough food for the number of such animals living off it (i.e., buffalo on the Great Plains.) When a new opportunity comes along -say, a lot of tall trees start growing in central Africa - then an animal like a giraffe will evolve quickly. since the tallest, longest-neck ones will eat better, they survive and have more children. Giraffes fighting over food quickly lost if they weren't tall enough. Within a few hundred generations, they probably went from looking like horses to looking like giraffes. So there weren't too many mid-sized giraffe wannabees, so odds that you will find a "half-giraffe" fossil are pretty bad, too.

Then, giraffes stopped getting taller when they reached an upper limit on physical size; a heart can pump blood uphill only so high; a neck can support only so much weight. The taller giraffes had more problems that regular ones, so the advantages of height were no longer much better; so they stopped evolving, and all you find now are normal giraffes. (Or maybe they got as tall as the tallest trees they liked to eat...)

We do the same thing to dog breeds, by physically picking the shape of dog we want to survive, and mating it with similar ones; we've created so many different breeds in Europe alone in the last 1000 years. Great Danes, Dobermans, Alsatians, and Dachshunds...

Answer 4

if you even knew how hard it is to get fossilized, you wouldn't need to ask your question. time and circumstances have to be perfect for a thing to be fossilized. creatures need hard bits, like bones, because flesh cannot be fossilized (it can, however, be preserved, but that's extremely rare).

fossils are the "inbetween." evolution is a process, and cannot be stopped by death, because it is more or less a random mutation of DNA that happens to accomodate a certain type of situation better than the previous gene. It happens before birth, almost even before conception, because it has to be donated by one or more parent and then passed down in just the right circumstances to even take hold.

its such a difficult and almost lucky process and its too complex to really get into in a simple answer. thats why there are classes and degrees and studies into it. people spend their whole lives studying evolution, don't discount it just because of a lack of complete understanding.

Answer 5

Evolution is a process, not something that just happened. In the meantime, the circumstances that allows for fossils to be created are not only complicated, but happen over a very short period of time - geologically speaking.

You may as well be asking why we don't have fossils from the 1800s.

I'd also note that the fossils are the milestones to try and create a hypothesis of what happened "in-between".

Answer 6

There is no such thing as "in between" fossils. Evolution is a slow and gradual process. Its not like a step ladder where each change is wholly differentiated from the previous.

Its clear from your claims that you simply do not understand the concept of evolution. Learn it before you attempt to argue against it.

Answer 7

You may want to check out the discoveries of the fossil "Lucy" as well as the fossil "Peking Man".I believe that these are the "in between" fossils you're looking for. If you google either name you will find some interesting information on the early relatives of modern humans.I still think models of these fossils are in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.The following links will give you some good reading.

Answer 8

You are an in-between.

You are the evolution of your Mother's and Father's family joining and becoming you. This process also created any siblings you may have.

This is why you have your own appearance and still look a bit like both of them.

You will also have features and traits of you grand-parents as well. You evolved from them and inherit what they are made of. Some of use are lucky and all of the bad traits are replace by good traits from the other family. But "good" and "bad" are judgments not evolution.

Keep searching for these answers, they will appear when you are ready.

Learning is an evolution too.

Answer 9

There aren't any inbetween fossils and there never will be. The creature tree is made up. They just dont want to believe in God and the Bible. You have a choice: you can accept evolution or you can accept God and the Bible. There is no inbetween. Do your own research and come to your own conclusion. No one can do that for you.

Answer 10

There are plenty of "in between" fossils. If you want it to look like a movie reel then no one can help you... there just aren't that many fossils, but there are fossils that show "in between stages" for humans and for many speciation events. Some environments will provide more fossils then others, so it is unfair to ask that scientists find "in betweens".for all speciation events. As it is, we are finding more and more.links, but creationists looking for any little whole will be able to find missing links for decades... many species have come and gone on Earth.