Can evolutionists give any examples of transitional forms in the fossil record?

Answer 1

Lucy is the representative sample you seek, she lived somewhere around 3.6 million years ago. See the link for details.

I have seen people use flawed logic to suggests that if we don't have a lot of transitional species in the fossil record evolution might be wrong. That logic is totally flawed.


Evolution does not occur in leaps, with clean species left fossilized in rock to make it easy for humans to piece the story together. Evolution is gradual over long periods of time, with extremely slight changes. The number of representative samples from those changes that make it to the fossil record and then get ultimately discovered by us is extremely small as well. So don't expect transitional species and a clean continuous story, expect large gaps in the fossil record, because so few members of any species are fossilized and later discovered by man.

Unlocking the past from the fragments that made it to stone is not an exact science, but the lack of precision in specific samples doesn't make the science any less accurate.

Answer 2

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 3

Sure. Pretty much everything you see is a transitional fossil - it's something that was from something else and on it's way to becoming something new. Not it personally, but any kids it might have had. If you died and were fossilized, you'd be a step in the evolutionary chain - a transitional fossil between your grandparents and your kids.

What did you expect, a half-elephant, half-raccoon? Evolution doesn't predict that - actually, something like that would serve well to DISPROVE evolution. Are you sure you know what it is you're fighting against? Because I'm not so sure you do.

Answer 4

*** Can evolutionists give any examples of transitional forms in the fossil record? ***

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Answer 5

Wow I'm glad you asked this question (because I whent to a Christian seminar and this same question was asked)

OK!! in a nut shell this is evolutionist THEORY.
To start off Evelotion has to be a faith based belief Just like Creation. HERE'S WHY!!

True science is 1. Demomnstratable 2. Repeatable 3. Observable. We can't do these with evolution.

Continuing. The 3 "Pillars" of Evolution are 1. Big Bang 2. Life from no Life 3. Simple to Complex.

Your question is related to Simple to Complex. This Pillar has 3 "Pillars" of it's own. 1. Adaptation 2.Mutation 3. Natural Selection

So to answer your question, this "transitional fossil" looks like it was a reptile turning into a bird. There are a bunch of little discrepensies with this thought but the BIG point I'm trying to make is this. Reptiles are cold blooded, birds are warm blooded. According to Simple to Complex Theory The reptile is trying to 1.ADAPT to some invorment. To adapt you need to 2.MUTATE. That means somewhere the Lungs had to mutate. So that means the Lungs had to go through an "inbetweeny" stage" If evolutionists say it took thousands or millions of years. According to rule 3. Natural seletion (which means: Seeing what in this animles life is benificial and keep it and seeing what is bad for the animle and removing it) SO that means this Lung that is so messed up, would be removed according to natural selection because it is not benifiting the Reptile, it's probably harming it because of it's 2 differant anatomys (Reptile-Avion).. in which case keeping it a reptile. The reptile according to Evolutionist Theory could never get over this stumbling block.

So hopefully this is benificial to someone who reads this. I'd enchourage you to go http://www.natureofcreation.org/articles.htm and read these articles. well thanks for reading and may God bless you with salvation if He hasn't already!

Answer 6

It is a fact of biology that organisms have an incredible ability to reproduce copies of themselves without mistakes. So where do new types of animals come from? Evolutionists theorize that new animals arise when a reproductive mistake happens. They believe this creature slowly turns into a completely different creature (without leaving any fossil remains of the transitional forms). Meanwhile other animals of the same type remained identical for millions of years! There is an acknowledged lack of evidence for the transitional forms between vastly different types of animals. The current textbook explanation concerning the lack of fossils evidence for evolution is called "punctuated equilibrium". According to this theory, animals stay the same for long periods of time but when they change, they change rapidly. Thus, they leave no fossil records of their transformation because it happens fast in relatively small or isolated locations.

Logic Check Time:

What does the Biological Record Show?-Stasis (Lack of Change).

Evolution explanation:

Macro-evolution is happening SO SLOW that we do not see it today.

What does the fossil record show?-No intermediate forms between different animal groups.

Evolution explanation:

Macro-evolution happened SO FAST that the fossil record did not record it.

Apparently I am not the only person unconvinced by evolutionist's religious adherence to such inconsistent reasoning because a November 1991 Gallop poll showed that 47% of the people in the United States still believe that God created human beings in the last 10,000 years.

Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the prestigious British Museum of Natural History, and author of the book,Evolution,made the following written comment when questioned why he did not include any illustrations of transitional forms in his book, . . . "if I knew of any, I certainly would have include them . . .". The full text of his statement is documented in Darwin's Enigma by Luther Sunderland, pp. 88-90. There are no transitional forms in the fossil record simply because creatures never turns into a completely different types of creatures.
Concepts have consequences. People act on what they believe to be true. If children are indoctrinated through a public education system which only allows evidences which neatly fit into a naturalistic explanation of life, we will increasingly become a society which looks only to itself for answers to life's questions.

Answer 7

The fossil record is a snapshot of the total history.

Answer 8

Virtually all forms in the fossil record are transitional, as are virtually all forms alive today.

Answer 9

Sorry, were the last answers too good? Do you want to ask this question until people ignore you then you can ssay, see, no evolution?


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4879672.stm
Here - walking fish. If you're too dumb to see how that's a transition, then go eat some holy wafers and drink the blood of God you self righteous moron.

http://flushaholybook.com

Answer 10

Yes, daleochepalic, braceo cephalic skulls, pronounced zygomatic arches, the coxics (used to be a tail we all had), the appendix, the epithelial eye fold, k-9 teeth, synodante teeth, dark skin, light skin, kinky hair straight hair, Green eyes, the need to extract the wisdom teeth now a days opposed to many years ago because our diets have changed, big dogs little dogs, different body types found around the world due to environment, the height increase over the past 200 years, longer lifespans. this is evolution. Now if you don't mind i have trees to climb and nanners to eat. woo woo woo