This was a critical point brought up in the Nightline debate.
Until a person understands why this statement is an accurate statement they will never even have a hope of understanding evolution, so it would be pointless to discuss it with them.
2007-05-12 06:26:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most definately. I spent years in University studying biology.
I was pretty angry with that debate because the moderator wouldn't let the Atheists explain what they meant by that, or much of anything else. He was more concerned with letting the Christians say what they want and shooting his own mouth off about nonsense than he was about getting any actual information.
2007-05-12 06:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not meaning to muddy the waters but some fossils are not transitional. Some fossils are terminal such as those of the 22 families of marine creatures that were eliminated in Devonian mass extinction. Since they were the end of the line it cannot be said they were transitional since they left no descendants.
2007-05-12 13:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Murazor 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No-thats absurd.
When we find a fossil-all we know is that something died. We don't know when or how or why. We don't know how old it is or who its daddy was. The fossil does not talk. It can not tell us that its grandpa was a T-Rex and its grandchild was a mocking bird. All we know for sure is that this "thing" died-period.
"Every" reported transitional fossil so far has either been a gross sloppy mistake or a deliberate hoax. All so-called transitional fossils fall into one of these two categories.
Thats what your *ALL* means.
2007-05-12 13:35:02 · answer #3 · answered by johnnywalker 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A fossil is a "snapshot" from a particular moment in time.
Imagine a shade of red that gradually changes to orange. The fossils we have are little instant moments during that change. There is not a specific instant that one can say "here it is one species, and now it's another".
2007-05-12 13:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Jack, I do. Partially because the second BA in Anthro was archaeology, specifically...
The problem is it takes a LOT of understanding to understand this, and actually one of the labs a lot of kids do in school to understand fossils (making one in a milk carton) creates the idea that fossils just form every fricking minute because the world is made out of wet plaster....that does not help, either.
2007-05-12 13:30:08 · answer #5 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I originally posted a quote from Dr. Colin Patterson, which is in dispute by evolutionist, until I know better, I will simply withdraw it.
2007-05-12 13:45:35 · answer #6 · answered by Brian 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sapient missed the simple explanation. You are transitional between your parents and your children. If he were articulate and had any decent debating skills, it would have been a slaughter.
2007-05-12 13:36:37 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not great with this subject
but at a guess I would say that with each generation , each person ... there are subtle differences
so no fossil would be the same , no generation identical to the next
2007-05-12 13:29:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, I do. And there are more fossils than the Creationists would like to admit.
Kirk Cameron is an idiot. Even Christians were wincing when he brought out the crocoduck.
2007-05-12 13:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
My kid pointed this little factoid out ot me when he was seven during a discussion of the Missing Link thing and dolphins. It was weird, but cool.
2007-05-12 13:43:30 · answer #10 · answered by Muffie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋