Why is this fact ignored by unbelievers?

Question

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? ... But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.

Why do evolutionists ignore and even deny this fact?

The argument that Darwin proposed in the face of the lack of intermediate form fossils—to the effect that "there are no intermediate forms now, but they may be found through subsequent research"—today no longer applies. Present-day data show that the fossil record is extraordinarily rich. Based on hundreds of millions of fossil specimens obtained from different regions of the world, some 250,000 separate species have been described—many of which bear an extraordinary resemblance to the approximately 1.5 billion species alive today. Given the absence of any intermediate form despite such a wealthy fossil record, it is impossible any such intermediate forms will emerge from new excavations.

The fossil record offers not a single example of an "intermediate form" that evolutionists can use as evidence, but does provide millions of specimens that demonstrate the invalidity of evolution. The most important of these are "living fossils," of which living specimens are in existence today. They can be seen from the fossil record to have lived in differing geological periods, and are proof of creation, since no difference exists between the living things of hundreds of millions of years ago and present-day specimens. Darwinists are helpless in the face of this situation.

Do you ignoramuses even know who said this? It is a quote. This is a quote from Charles Darwin.

No John B, the problem is you are willing to accept anything to sustain your belief.
There are no transitional fossils, only fossils and interpretation and conjecture made to fit the data.

"It is therefore essential to inflict an intellectual defeat on the materialist world view, and to this end it is essential to reveal the scientific invalidity of Darwinism, which constitutes the basis of that view. This is an easy task, because Darwinism lacks any scientific foundation. Not one scientific proof to back up the theory of evolution has so far been found in any relevant branch of science. The findings which have been made all show that evolution never happened. All that evolutionists do is to distort certain biological phenomena, observations or the fossil record, none of which actually constitute any evidence for the theory of evolution, in a prejudiced manner, and sometimes even wage their propaganda campaign by engaging in scientific fraud.

In order for the true face of Darwinism to be revealed it is therefore essential that the effect of this propaganda be nullified and that the scientific facts be made available to as many people as possible"

Answer 1

I always wondered about the fossils that exist in different layers of rock. How did they manage to to that if it took thousands or millions of years to compile the levels of rock and strata?

Answer 2

It is a shame that you allow opinion to be confused with fact. The world and the fossil record is full of transitional forms. Every dinosaur was a transitional form on the way to something else. You are a transitional form since your children will not be identical to you.
What walks the surface of the earth today are the successful experiments from millions of years of trial and error. The bonobo and the common chimpanzee are very similar but are no less different species.
The problem is that you are looking for gross characteristic changes to discredit evolutionary change when the reality is that evolution consists of different family lines following different development paths. I really would suggest reading the works of Darwin or any realistic text on the subject to actually develop some facts upon which to base an opinion.

Answer 3

Gee I'm sure I read somewhere or other in the bible "Thou shalt not bear false witness"....

The fossil record as it is known today is absolutely full of 'transitional forms'. Not that they are even needed to establish evolution, as Darwins book, written when the study of fossils was only just beginning, demonstrated. Yet they offer overwhelming support.

By the way, why did you end the quote-mine there? - why didn't you include what he wrote next? The answer can only be in order to better deceive.

Funny how the 10 commandments are always less important to religious fundies....

Answer 4

The fossil record is full of such samples.

Which is amazing, since it takes pretty specific processes for a fossil to exist. Most things that die are eaten by animals or decay into dust. So if a few transitions are not found, that is to be expected.

Answer 5

Your argument is pure creationist propaganda. You and others like you keep stating it to each other, and you all believe it to be true, but it is not.

Read the pages at the links below. Spend some time checking out how science has reached these conclusions, and see for yourself the huge web of evidence that supports these scientific theories. If you do this, and are intellectually honest, you'll see that evolution is far more sound than your current understanding.

Answer 6

Two reasons. Firstly, it was not the habit of ancient organisms to choose places to die where the remains would be preserved and it would be easy for paleontologists to find them. But, far more importantly, it hinges on the fact that the genetic information is stored in digital rather than in analog form. This means that there is a minimum change that can occur with a one-bit change in the DNA, but there is NO maximum: a single bit change can activate all or part of an intron, or de-activate all or part of an exon, causing a change that is arbitrarily large. Also, chromosome shuffling can cause genetic changes too -- consider Down's syndrome. Evolution is now a proven fact (details on request); the debate is over.

Answer 7

why do Creationist's ignore it when we find 2 species that existes 2 million years apart that are 97 percent the same,

this is your transitional piece, but no, instead, you want to see every .00000000001% change that happened to that species for the 2 million year window. prehapy the earth conditions simply were not right to create fossils, preshps someone built a city on top of it. or maybe the species in it's previous form was simply smart enough to stay out of tar pits.

Answer 8

First, thousand of transitional fossils exist including land whales and flying dinosaurs, and pre human primates.
Second when things die they are eaten by other animals and even bones degrade after millions of years.
The chance of a dead animal becoming a fossil are one in a billion.

Answer 9

Actually transitional forms exist for the vast majority of species.

Answer 10

There are plenty of transitional fossils. You focusing on the ones that aren't there is intellectually dishonest.