There are gaps in the fossil record. So, if you look past the gaps, you could see MacroEvolution if you wanted to.
There is not a "missing link" as much as one is needed.
98% genetic link to monkeys does not make us a monkey. That is like saying since a home is built of bricks and mortar, all buildings are alike. There is no way a house could ever be confused with a Chrysler Building (even though the principles of construction are the same).
A deviation of one bit of the genetic code would make you a freak, and unless you were able to reproduce with the species that you came from, your line would not be carried on. So, if there were genetic modifications in the code they would ultimately breed themselves out - as only the best and strongest get to reproduce in the wild.
Proof of Microevolution- Horses - during the age of the dinosaurs, they were about the size of a small dog. Yet today, they are as big as a door. But, throughout the ages, a horse is a horse.
More proof of microevolution-look at the different species of bears, dogs, cats, moths, birds. But they are still bears, cats, dogs, moths, or birds.
2007-01-28 02:04:28
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answered by Christmas Light Guy 7
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It is strange to me that evolutionist use the argument that over Million and million of years all this evolution took place and yet this same group tells us that a almost complete extinction event took place just 250 million years ago. That doesn't leave much time to bring about the beginnings of mankind from the few small animal the survived. There are also huge holes in the fossil record even some that show more complex organisms in more ancient strata than the more simple in the younger. In short science does NOT prove that evolution is factual.... Jim
2007-01-28 09:37:37
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answered by Anonymous
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the revolutionary changes needed to go from one animal type to another have long been understated and to go from a reptile lung to a bird lung for example cannot be explained by a long series of gradual changes each having some advantage over the other
there is an interesting view of genetics and information from Werner Gitt and also Lee Spetner and there is a book called IN THE BEGINNING WAS INFORMATION that argues that each point mutation has a loss or at least not an increase in informration
the fossil record has animal types appearing fully made... it does not suport gradualism... additionally the amount of c14 showing up in coal samples from the top of the geological column down to the bottom and even in Cambrian diamonds leans much more toward a young earth than an old one. The fossil record for the most part is best explained by animals drowning and buried in the flood of Noah
2007-01-28 09:24:12
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answered by whirlingmerc 6
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You concede with your "micro evolution" that there is without a shadow of a doubt, SOME evolution, right?
This is observable to the naked eye.
Now just take that one belief and stretch it out about four billion years longer....
It is just a matter of scale.
IN your viewpoint, you are trying to pocket evolution into a teeny tiny frame of time of several thousand years based on a book.
Evolution is true, it is dynamic, and it has been occuring since the earth was formed,
about 4 billion years ago when the products of life were taking form,
over that time,
life became more and more complex and diversified.
And the products are what you see today, and it will continue to change long after humans are wiped from the face of the earth,
we will move over and make room for another dominant species, or several of them.
NOTHING has come forward to explain our natural world with mountains of evidence and stunning observation.
OR......
A giant spirit dropped people, his special pets made of clay off on a tiny speck of a planet in a million oceans of galaxies just to 'test' them...
Yeah, that makes SO much more sense.
2007-01-28 09:22:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Anti-evolutionists argue against macro-evolution so loudly that some people think they invented the term in order to dismiss evolution. But this is not true; scientists not only use the terms, they have an elaborate set of models and ideas about it, which of course anti-evolutionists gloss over or treat as being somehow problems for evolutionary biology.
The simple truth is they will never see what they choose not to see.
If your belief system is so fragile that it will fall apart if you accept the obvious, your only choice is to not accept it.
Love and blessings Don
2007-01-28 09:19:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Where is the biological mechanism that would limit the extent of micro-evolutionary change? Does micro-evolution only go so far and then magically stop? If there isn't a mechanism then macro-evolution must be an indisputable fact. Eons of micro-evolution must INEVITABLY lead to macro-evolution.
2007-01-28 09:14:04
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answered by Anonymous
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I see no current conclusive evidence. A lot of conjecture, extrapolation and speculation. Science loves to gamble for some reason.
If such evolutionary facts were in existance we'd see evidence of it here and now. We'd find small creatures with a lot of Protozo DNA and we don't.
We'd see apes giving birth to human like babies and we don't.
It's like "evolution" ground to a halt 5 million years ago.
We don't see fishes coming out of the water and devloping wings or lets with web feet. We don't see mice sprouting wings and becomeing birds.
The ONLY evolution we see in the last 10,000 years is the BREEDING of CATS and DOGS to make them domesticated creatures.
That's creationism. That's willful intent.
There are ABSOLUTELY NO documented cases of complext biological creatures EVOLOVING in the last 5,000 years I am aware of and if there were it wouldn't be the THEORY of EVOLULTION anymore. PROOF moves it UP from THEORY to the next level.
Science ADMITS they have limited proof, only enough to make it a THEORY.
We don't use THEORIES to go into space. We use the LAWS OF NEWTONIAN PHSYICS and the LAWS of chemical reactions.
Chemistry is SO GOOD at what they do, they can predict the next 10 elements that will be discovered. They know EXACTLY what the Proton and Nuetron and Electron make up will be, because it can be PREDICTED by the Period Chart.
That chart today is FAR LARGER than it was in 1907!
That's how HARD SCIENCE works.
Evolution is a very soft science thus far.
And those who dispute it prove how low their Atheist and Agnostic IQs are and how little they read about it.
Some girl here the other day tried to present FACTS from a scientific paper whos title says "Suggests"
I'm sorry, but my dictonary doesn't say "suggest" means "facts" nor does "facts" mean "suggest."
Why these Atheist like to lie is beyond me. It hurts their causes and proves they say anything to get people to buy into their views, which are NOT supported by science.
Atheists PLAY with words and tell us we buy into fiction.
Well trying to convince people HERE at R&S something is a FACT when the SCIENTISTS say it only "suggests" a connection is two different things!
2007-01-28 09:30:35
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answered by Anonymous
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what I don't understand is how some creationists accept the proof of microevolution but do not accept that over long periods of time, those mutations may give rise to larger evolutionary changes....if you accept microevolution then you have to accept that species continue to evolve, no species is perfectly adapted to their environment...the reason why? Because the environment changes!
2007-01-28 09:51:52
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answered by town_cl0wn 4
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Its written on your DNA, we also have morphology and a pretty good fossil record - what theists never accept or understand is that the fossil record and genetic evidence are both perfect proofs of 'macro'evolution (inverted commas because there is no such thing as macroevolution - there is only evolution and it has over time created all the species we see today, and many we do not.) on their own.
It takes a special kind of wilful ignorance to pretend they're wrong.
I guess God made 98% of your DNA identical to a chimpanzee to test your faith? Mmhm...
2007-01-28 09:14:46
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answered by Anonymous
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The Great Records in the Tablets of Limestone.
2007-01-28 09:17:20
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answered by Invisible_Flags 6
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