“Where are all the missing links?”?

Question

We have found an abundance of transitional fossils. What this sort of questioning is implying is that we find every transitional fossil. I will gladly admit such a thing is impossible. It would be like digging up everyone of your ancestors to prove you are a descendent of a Frenchmen. I will give two examples of missing links. One is homo ergaster found to have lived 1.9 million years ago. Fossils and information can be seen here (http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/erg.html ). Another missing link is referred to as the Darwin Fish. Simply put this fossil shows the link between fish and tetrapods. The New York Times had an article about it found here (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06fossil.html?ex=1301976000&en=76a1b46221b5cc6a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ).

Just another thing that needed to be cleared up.

Answer 1

Some Creationists say that evolutionists cannot point to any transitional fossils—creatures that are half reptile and half bird, for instance. Actually, paleontologists know of many detailed examples of fossils intermediate in form between various taxonomic groups. One of the most famous fossils of all time is Archaeopteryx, which combines feathers and skeletal structures peculiar to birds with features of dinosaurs. A flock’s worth of other feathered fossil species, some more avian and some less, has also been found. A sequence of fossils spans the evolution of modern horses from the tiny Eohippus. Whales had four-legged ancestors that walked on land, and creatures known as Ambulocetus and Rodhocetus helped to make that transition [see “The Mammals That Conquered the Seas,” by Kate Wong; Scientific American, May]. Fossil seashells trace the evolution of various mollusks through millions of years. Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them our ancestors) fill the gap between Lucy the australopithecine and modern humans. Creationists, though, dismiss these fossil studies. They argue that Archaeopteryx is not a missing link between reptiles and birds—it is just an extinct bird with reptilian features. They want evolutionists to produce a weird, chimeric monster that cannot be classified as belonging to any known group. Even if a creationist does accept a fossil as transitional between two species, he or she may then insist on seeing other fossils intermediate between it and the first two. These frustrating requests can proceed ad infinitum and place an unreasonable burden on the always incomplete fossil record. Nevertheless, evolutionists can cite further supportive evidence from molecular biology. All organisms share most of the same genes, but as evolution predicts, the structures of these genes and their products diverge among species, in keeping with their evolutionary relationships. Geneticists speak of the “molecular clock” that records the passage of time. These molecular data also show how various organisms are transitional within evolution.

Answer 2

...and right now, at this very moment, the world's biggest advocate for Creationism is sitting in his Ivory Tower at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, while he, himself, is an unrepentant chimp.

No wonder Darwin and Evolution upset him so greatly.
He's virtually untouched by evolution, and he's jealous of those who have been.

The man thinks fossils were put here by Satan to confuse us, for god's sake.

There is our missing link. Where's a paleontologist when you need one?

Answer 3

Evolution and the science of it, no matter what site you point to, is nothing more than man's INTERPRETATION of certain events and what they percieve to be true. When they can find several people that agree with their interpretation, they present it as fact, even though it is not ABSOLUTE fact. Then the sheeple follow them repeating what they have heard, and what humans "think" is true and they say it is fact. They have their facts, theories, and man-made beliefs. The objects they study get studied by fellow "scientists" and there may be 7 different interpretations, so they sit together and decide as a whole as to what will be considered "facts" presented to the multitudes of their sheeple to be true. Look at all the dating methods, and each one suppossedly better than the other, yet they all cannot point to the same date on an object. That info is suppressed in favor of a consensus presented as fact to their sheeple and taught in classes as fact. The funny thing is, the "holy grail" of evolution, berkley, states on their site, "These are our understandings on how we believe things have come in to being." Their UNDERSTANDING. Not the facts, but their understanding! If it is solely their understanding, it is NOT absolute truth. Evolution proves only that non-believers who choose this path of thinking are easily brainwashed.
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Answer 4

It's Sunday....
They're probably all at church.

Seriously, unless some god type whatsit has left us a trail of deliberately deposited 'clues', do you really think that we will find an example of every creature that ever lived on this planet?

Evolution (though I believe it to be truth) will always be a theory due to the disintegration of the mass of the evidence which can support it.

Answer 5

The missing links are as big a joke as evolution. Whatever missing links that they "find" they all get proven as hoaxes later.Isn't it just a lot easier to believe the truth from the Bible?

Answer 6

The one I really love is, if we decended from monkeys then why are there still monkeys. Even dumber then the ones looking for a missing link.

Answer 7

most of the human fossil record has already been found... and what hasnt been found can be decuced

Answer 8

Thank you very much for trying to enlighten people. Hopefully some will open their eyes.

Answer 9

i thought the missing link was the link between apes and man

Answer 10

a pro wrestler was called the missing link.