If evolution happened how come we only found 1 "person" fossilized?

Question

Hundreds of Dinosaurs, and other animals have been found but only one"missing link" Shouldn't there be more than that?

Answer 1

Carbon 14 dating has been proven unreliable..read on:
Whenever the worldview of evolution is questioned, this topic always comes up. Let me first explain how carbon dating works and then show you the assumptions it is based on. Radiation from the sun strikes the atmosphere of the earth all day long. This energy converts about 21 pounds of nitrogen into radioactive carbon 14. This radioactive carbon 14 slowly decays back into normal, stable nitrogen. Extensive laboratory testing has shown that about half of the C-14 molecules will decay in 5730 years. This is called the half-life. After another 5730 years half of the remaining C-14 will decay leaving only ¼ of the original C-14. It goes from ½ to ¼ to 1/8, etc. In theory it would never totally disappear, but after about 5 half lives the difference is not measurable with any degree of accuracy. This is why most people say carbon dating is only good for objects less than 40,000 years old. Nothing on earth carbon dates in the millions of years, because the scope of carbon dating only extends a few thousand years. Willard Libby invented the carbon dating technique in the early 1950's. The amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere today (about .0000765%), is assumed there would be the same amount found in living plants or animals since the plants breath CO2 and animals eat plants. Carbon 14 is the radio-active version of carbon.

Since sunlight causes the formation of C-14 in the atmosphere, and normal radioactive decay takes it out, there must be a point where the formation rate and the decay rate equalizes. This is called the point of equilibrium. Let me illustrate: If you were trying to fill a barrel with water but there were holes drilled up the side of the barrel, as you filled the barrel it would begin leaking out the holes. At some point you would be putting it in and it would be leaking out at the same rate. You will not be able to fill the barrel past this point of equilibrium. In the same way the C-14 is being formed and decaying simultaneously. A freshly created earth would require about 30,000 years for the amount of C-14 in the atmosphere to reach this point of equilibrium because it would leak out as it is being filled. Tests indicate that the earth has still not reached equilibrium. There is more C-14 in the atmosphere now than there was 40 years ago. This would prove the earth is not yet 30,000 years old! This also means that plants and animals that lived in the past had less C-14 in them than do plants and animals today. Just this one fact totally upsets data obtained by C-14 dating.

The carbon in the atmosphere normally combines with oxygen to make carbon dioxide (CO2). Plants breathe CO2 and make it part of their tissue. Animals eat the plants and make it part of their tissues. A very small percentage of the carbon plants take in is radioactive C-14. When a plant or animal dies it stops taking in air and food so it should not be able to get any new C-14. The C-14 in the plant or animal will begin to decay back to normal nitrogen. The older an object is, the less carbon-14 it contains. One gram of carbon from living plant material causes a Geiger counter to click 16 times per minute as the C-14 decays. A sample that causes 8 clicks per minute would be 5,730 years old (the sample has gone through one half life), and so on. (See chart on page 46 about C-14). Although this technique looks good at first, carbon-14 dating rests on two simple assumptions. They are, obviously, assuming the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere has always been constant, and its rate of decay has always been constant. Neither of these assumptions is provable or reasonable.

Fossils:
The very name brings to mind images of untold ages past. . . dinosaurs roaming ancient swamps. . . slow but steady progression as simple sea life was transformed into today's complex variety. Is this an accurate reconstruction of the past of the past or is a worldwide flood the correct explanation of the fossil record?

This article is one of many found within Mr. Malone's excellent book, Search for the Truth. Fossils are the preserved evidence of past life. They are found in every part of the world, including the tops of the highest mountains. They may be as simple as a seashell which has left a permanent impression in sandstone or as grandiose as a giant plesiosaur whose bones have turned to rock after rapid burial. The fossils themselves tell us neither their age nor how they became encased in the rock layers. Rather, they must be interpreted within some view of earth history. Many people have been led to believe that the existence of fossils proves that millions of years have passed. In reality, fossils can form quite rapidly. Heat and pressure from rapid burial can accelerate the fossilization process. Geologic conditions following a worldwide flood would have exceeded anything imaginable today and must have led to the rapid fossilization of the plants and animals on a massive scale.

Fossilization can happen rapidly under the right conditions, but it is a rare event today. Yet there are mass burial sites throughout the world that are tightly packed with millions of fossils. Apparently, billions of organisms were washed together by the mass destruction of the worldwide flood, completely buried, and rapidly fossilized. These massive and extensive fossil graveyards would be the predictable result of a worldwide flood, but would hardly fit the slow accumulation model which continues to be taught as the primary explanation of the fossil record. Something dramatically different must have happened in the past to have caused the wide spread fossilization which we find all over our planet. Noah's flood would have been this event.

Geologists and paleontologists operating from a Christian worldview acknowledge the possibility that a worldwide catastrophe buried unimaginable amounts of plants and animals. This was the disaster documented in the first book of the Bible. It lasted at least one year and had reverberations which lasted for centuries. Sea creatures would have been buried first (the salinity and temperature of the oceans would have changed during the catastrophe, wiping out massive numbers of these sea creatures). Even after the flood, plant and animal extinction would have been common as many types of creatures failed to adapt to dramatically changing conditions.

Although any order of burial in a flood would be possible, the general tendency would be for sea life to be buried in the lower rock layers and land animals to be buried in different rock layers corresponding to their ecological niche. This tendency is generally found.

Creation geologists (and there are many of them) believe that the majority of the geologic record is a result of geologic activity during and subsequent to the year-long worldwide flood. This flood would have been an incredible complex event.

Geologist and paleontologists operating from an evolutionary world view acknowledge local catastrophes, but do not allow consideration of a worldwide flood. This would wipe out the "slow change over eons of time" interpretation of the fossils which is needed to continue believing in evolution.

Only one interpretation of the evidence can be correct and only one interpretation of the evidence agrees with what the Bible claims is the history of our planet.


ADDED NOTE:
THIS is amazing. Within 2 minutes of me posting this,some lost soul gave it a thumbsdown. That's not nearly enough time to read it. You see,some people have been so blinded by EVILution that when facts arise to refute it, no matter what, they'll disagree because they don't want to have to answer to a Higher Being.

ADDED NOTE ...TO BULA'IA"
Kent Hovind has had over 75 debates throughout the country with well-respected professors and teachers of evolution. It's a blast watching Dr.Hovind @ work with his numerous slides and presentations which PROVE beyond a doubt the many lies of evolution. He hasn't lost a debate so I guess he's done his homework.But you and many others,rather than look at the evidence he has brought forth, choose to bring up his tax evasion? What does that have to do with proving evolution wrong? I'm not sure about his tax problems,nor do I care. If he did , I'm sure the Lord has forgiven him. The IMPORTANT thing is Dr.Hovind has won and continues to win many souls for Christ,yes, even scientists have come forward. Praise Dr.Hovind's ministry!

p.s. Using Wikipedia as a reference is very deceitful as ANYONE is allowed to change the content on it,not just the person who posted it.
Bones of many modern-looking humans have been found deep in undisturbed rocks that, according to evolution, were formed long before man began to evolve. Examples include the Calaveras skull,a the Castenedolo skeletons,Reck’s skeleton,cand others. Remains, such as the Swanscombe skull, the Steinheim fossil, and the Vertesszöllos fossil, present similar problems. Evolutionists almost always ignore these remains.

Answer 2

They've found hundreds of transitional fossils. They are all humans ancestors. There are about 8 different species between us and our common ancestor to apes. Where did you hear there was only 1?

Answer 3

Scientists don't fake fossils. Finding any fossil is in part a matter of luck. Also you have to be digging where humans were. This limits you to northeastern Africa and later in the Middle East and across the south belly of Asia and China.

Another factor is that the number of humans were quite small at any stage in their evolution until about 10,000 years ago when humans invented farming and settled down to grow communities, towns, and cities.

Dinosaurs were quite successful and had large populations before they were elimintated 65 million years ago.

Answer 4

Firstly there are hundreds of hominid fossils. Secondly, hominids weren't numerous like today, and have been around for a short million years or so. Dinosaurs, of which there were many many species, were around for 180 million years, and "other" animals (250,000 known fossil species), have been around for over half a billion years.

You can get an intro to human evolution here:

Answer 5

The better question. If evolution never happened then why are we finding fossils of different types of man?

Answer 6

Instead of coming on this site asking this question, why don't you do some research yourself? You aren't serious about this; you are just saying "nyah, nyah, nyah" at people who accept Evolutionary Theory (btw, theory, in this case, doesn't mean a guess). As Carl Sagan said: "Evolution is a fact, not a theory. It really happened." And there is plenty of room to believe in God and also accept evolution. The Catholics do, the Jews have always accepted it.

Answer 7

One person? There is an extensive record of homonid evolution so for missing link read creationist red herring. Let's not talk specifically about human evolution let's just talk about evolution because mankind is only another species. There are dozens of complete species fossil records detailing evolutionary change. Creationists give it up-evolution is a fact beyond question-it can't be challenged.

Answer 8

There have been thousands of hominid fossils found, some millions of years old.

Like the other person on here said, read a book and save your *own* brain from fossilizing.

Answer 9

Fossilization only happens when somethin gets buried quickly, like in a flood for example. If Noah's flood happened we should see many many fossils that are simply not there. We should see dinosaur bones mixed with many modern species. This alone disproves the great flood mentioned in the Bible.

Answer 10

Just because they haven't been found doesn't mean they don't or didn't exist. Human bones when compared to those of dinosaurs are relatively small and its possible many decayed over the millenia. Its also possible that many have been misidentified over the years and are just lying in drawers someplace waiting to be found. Then too, they could also be found under many layers of dirt just waiting to be discovered. Remember also, initially, there weren't that many humans when compared to the animals so there are fewer waiting to be discovered.

Answer 11

to think that god didn't initiate evolution is pure ignorance and an insult to the magnificence of the lord,the bible was written in a form so that uneducated people could comprehend the development of human existence.did god not put scientist on the earth so that we,the enlightened can understand his methods and how genius his will really is,get with times and don't try stopping gods will by slandering his new prophets.god has full understanding of these times and want us to know him through the avenue which is called science