Nope.
It is commonly stated by critics of evolution that there are no known transitional fossils. This position is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of what represents a transitional feature. A common creationist argument is that no fossils are found with partially functional features. It is plausible, however, that a complex feature with one function can adapt a wholly different function through evolution. The precursor to, for example, a wing, might originally have only been meant for gliding, trapping flying prey, and/or mating display. Nowadays, wings can still have all of these functions, but they are also used in active flight.
Although transitional fossils elucidate the evolutionary transition of one life-form to another, they only exemplify snapshots of this process. Due to the special circumstances required for preservation of living beings, only a very small percentage of all life-forms that ever have existed can be expected to be discovered. Thus, the transition itself can only be illustrated and corroborated by transitional fossils, but it will never be known in detail. However, progressing research and discovery managed to fill in several gaps and continues to do so.
2007-01-02 14:03:08
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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1) Evolution always stated apes/monkeys and humans have a common ancestor.
2) Evolution is not an invention. It is a theory and a fact.
3) There are literally mountains of evidence for Evolution. So much that it is declared a fact and properly taught in school.
4) Facts don't equal lies.
2007-01-02 14:08:22
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answered by Anonymous
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I agree with you that
1. evolutionists make an extrapolation of micro evolution to arrive at macro evolution AND THEN WANT US TO ACCEPT THE EXTRAPOLATION AS FACT.
2. macro evolution is just a hypothesis AND NOT EVEN A SCIENTIFIC THEORY.
3. the missing links are still missing!! What evolutionists tout as some of the missing links are nothing more than fabrications of their own imaginations. For example, from a single tooth and part a jawbone, they can create a model of what the whole creature looked like!!
4. it takes a whole lot of faith to accept macro evolution.
And to think that in their self-sufficient complacency,
they accuse CHRISTIANS of being brainwashed!!
2007-01-02 14:25:24
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answered by flandargo 5
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No sane paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, biologist, or zoologist has ever suggested we descended from apes - we share a common ancestor.
No transitional fossils? What the hell are you talking about? What do you call Australopithecus afarensis, Homo hablis, Homo erectus, and the other, numerous fossils all testifying of the fact of evolution!
No, this doesn't "proof" anything (is this your level of education?). Evolution for me takes no faith at all, due to the insurmountable evidence.
There is a lot of evidence for Darwinian evolution. It's taught in schools as fact because it is a fact. If you want "Intelligent" design taught in schools, I would like intelligent design the FSM way taught as well.
2007-01-02 14:03:58
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answered by Nowhere Man 6
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It doesn't entirely disprove evolution, but it does show that evolution is unprovable. There is too much extrapolation, which is funny since the first thing they teach you in science classes is to never extrapolate.
And also, it frustrates me to no end when I hear professors say that a contradiction to evolution is just an anomaly. Or, you know, maybe it's evidence to disprove the theory? But all the information is tailored to support the theory and never show the other side of the argument. And the people who support evolution are the ones who always ask other to keep an open mind. Ha.
2007-01-02 14:07:03
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answered by tertiahibernica 3
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It means they haven't found the "missing link". There is absolutely no evidence of creationism other than a 2000 year old book.
By the way, my tax dollars are supporting church schools and giving tax breaks to big religion (read megachurches) which receive free rides on my wallet.
2007-01-02 14:06:56
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answered by The Doctor 7
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Evolutionists are total liars - organic and straightforward. they don't have self assurance that God created the heavens, the earth and all that the exists interior the international. in short, they contradict and disbelieve in creationism because of the fact they don't have self assurance God's word. besides the undeniable fact that, affliction is a effect of the earth being cursed by technique of God because of the fact of mans' sin and disobedience to God interior the backyard of Eden. they're microbes that God created as area of his curse upon the earth. Pixies (generally) are mythical creatures that don't exist, even with the shown fact that devil does exist.
2016-12-15 14:18:07
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answered by donenfeld 4
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take just one entry level biology class at a real school. learn what evolution is. when did evolution say anything other than the fact that we share a common ancestor with the chimp? it never said we are directly related to apes in the way we think of family. have you heard of the human appendix and the reason we no longer use it?
i hope your claim is a joke.
expand your mind.
www.talkorigins.org/
2007-01-02 14:08:17
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answered by iwa 2
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What are you missing. We have a solid line f fossils back to this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucys-baby.html
and this
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0413_060413_evolution.html
Exactly what do you think is missing? These are exactly what the "missing link" was and it isn't a new find at all. Why do you feel the need to distort the truth this way?
Edit: and the Darwin lie too. http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i1/darwin_recant.asp
That is even a Christian pro-creation source that says it is a lie. And you have the balls to say we should look it up.
2007-01-02 14:06:12
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answered by Alex 6
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Evolution has never said we descended from apes. Even if it did, and now it correctly points to the fossil record that shows we come from a common ancestor, this is how science works -- progressive recognition and correction of error.
So you're saying that the fact it corrected itself, unlike religion, is a bad thing?
I'll stick with the self-correcting mechanisms, thanks.
2007-01-02 14:04:53
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answered by Anonymous
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