If evolution is true, over millions of years of evolving how many???

Question

How many skelletons of intermediate species have been found? and also would millions be a fair guess? I mean we are talking about millions of years of evolving from one thing to another....

Answer 1

See that's the thing. IF evolution is true. You see it's not. Scientist have NEVER found a Missing link EVER! Also, IF evolution is true, apes would still would be evolving into humanish forms and we would have quite a few people on earth who actually looked like the guys from the Geico commercials. I would like to be proven wrong. Ever hear the story of when scientist found a tooth? They constructed an ENTIRE skeleton and figured out what the eating habits of this Cro-Magnon man would be like and they eventually found out that it was a pig's tooth. Evolution never has, and never will, exist.

-sirK

Answer 2

Fossils are not that common, or at least intact ones where most of the animal or plant is somewhat intact. The creature that died had to be in a place where it could fossilize. Often predators get ahold of the animal and scatter the remains much as today with scavengers and predators. Ideally, an animal was caught in the open when it was suddenly killed say by a flash flood and most of its body was intact and deposited somewhere or say covered by volcanic ash. There are many intermediate species that have been discovered and whales are perfect examples. The terrestrial ancestor as well as intermediate species have been discovered. Even the most thick creationist looking at this must consider their postition:
http://www.talkorigins.org/features/whales/

Answer 3

Evolution consistently works. If crocodiles or the different form of organism has remained unchanged for an prolonged quantity of time, then that's by way of fact they're doing merely wonderful as they're and there has been no substantial decision tension utilized to them. besides, in trouble-free terms conserving the comparable skeletal shape would not quantity to 'no longer evolving', there could have been changes in chemistry or mushy tissue shape that would not look plenty interior the fossil record.

Answer 4

Firstly, bear in mind that only about 0.00001% of the land has ever been excavated for fossils. Lots has been built on, is underwater, has shifted due to seismic activity or is simply not the easiest type of land to dig up.

Also, due to cycles in the world climate and the like, in some periods fossils are unlikely to survive from some eras. (Like how some mosquitos are only preserved in amber, you wouldn't find them otherwise).

However I would dare to say that there are millions of fossils already discovered. Enough at least to provide enough evidence to support the claim of evolution - if you bury something in the ground, it gets severely between and worn away.

Scientists at the time were totally against evolution (because of it's anti-religious connotations) but only once people had seen enough proof did they accept it.

Answer 5

All species you see have evolved over the course of many years. As the world is changing, species must adapt to survive from natural events or predators. There is a theory that organisms have evolved from one ancestor cell/organism, but there's greater evidence that certain species are closely related through genetics. There is a constant debate between Creationists and Evolutionists on whether evolution is 'real'. However, there is evidence to back up evolution. What many people relate to evolution is that humans evolved from apes and monekys. But all scientists these days agree that the reference is just a myth. As true as humans are closely related to apes through DNA, we are in fact decended from previous forms of human beings.

Furthermore, scientists studying stratus have found fossils dating in chronologically order that clearly shows gradual change in physical attributes in species. Over years, species have also lost the purpose for the function of certain body parts as the world does not require them to use the function.

Evolution is apparent in butterflies with species mimicking the pattern of other species that are poisonous to birds who feed on them. Mimic in appearance is one aspect of evolution.

Answer 6

Millions and millions. Better start digging! Just kidding! You're probably breathing in, eating, and wearing a lot of those dead skeletons right now! As dust and dirt. Our planet had a tendency toward recycling.

Answer 7

It's billions of years, and there are billions of fossils.

Let me explain.

You, sir, are an "intermediate species". So am I. All species are "intermediate species" since all come between the species they last evolved from and the species that will evolve from them.

Read, please.

http://www.talkorigins.org/

Answer 8

No. The formation of fossils require very specific conditions. Those conditions are very rarely achieved. Even in just the past 10,000 years, very rarely do they find human remains over 500 years old. So it isn't like every animal that dies makes a fossil.

Answer 9

Well the vast majority of skeletons break down and won't ever be found. But millions easily, probably billions easily. And here are some good lists of transitional fossils: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

Answer 10

hundreds at best, over millions of years of looking-if we look that long.

Anyone who is familar with geology knows that perhaps only a hundredth of a percent of animal remains get fossilized.

With so very few fossils available, and the hundreds of links we've already found, evolution is a slam dunk for truth, huh?