Evolutionists, serious questions, please answer....?

Question

I find so many problems with evolution, I don't know where to begin. Please explain to me. Let me start with these questions...

I understand that you believe that we share a common ancestor with apes. My question is how come all of the creatures became humans or apes, and non of them are stuck a few stages back, and so visible to us today?

Also, how come we have dinosaur bones, but not the bones of transitional animals that would have existed after, shouldnt these bones be everywhere?

Answer 1

Clearly you've sat out of science class?

Field's called anthropology, also archeology, and even ethnobiology.

WE"VE researched the Bible, but will you comply as well?? (BTW Im a christian)

So how many of you biblie fellows gave me the thumb down eh? oh, yes, the truth hurts......................... why am i thinking of an episode of South Park..............? you know the one...........

Answer 2

How come all of the creatures became humans or apes?

That question could be rephrased, "Why are the various living species of apes the only ones alive now?" There is no "stuck a few stages back". Evolution is gradual, not staged. There is variation within all populations.

There are plenty of transitional forms, including early reptiles with some dinosaur features, and early forms of well known dinosaur types. What distinguishes "transitional" from "major group" fossils is that a highly successful species expands into a large population that leaves more fossils. Every creature is transitional.

Answer 3

"How come all of the creatures became humans or apes, and non of them are stuck a few stages back, and so visible to us today?"

There are plenty of animals other than humans and apes.

The notion of "stuck a few stages back" makes no sense. Evolution is not progressive. It's a matter of adapting to circumstances, not "improvement over time".

"Also, how come we have dinosaur bones, but not the bones of transitional animals that would have existed after, shouldnt these bones be everywhere?"

Not only are there plenty of bones of other animals, but as noted above, plenty of those animals themselves.

How in the world could you possibly be unaware of that?

Answer 4

I don't know what you mean by " None of them are stuck a few stages back " All loving things began evolving fro the earliest dats, and are still in the process.
About bones, scientists cases all over the world have thousands of bones from previous times. some are so human-like that the scientists are still not sure if the animal was human or ape. There are many hundreds that can't definately be called human or ape.
Why this question of the missing link keeps coming up, is beyond understanding. People make statements when all that they have to go on is hear-say. It does no harm to pick up a book now and then.

Answer 5

we have plenty of bones from the transitional animals but the thing is dinosaurs were around for a very long time 265 million BC to 65 million years BC, and the transitional animals were just that a transition between the trilobytes and the dinosaurs, and their bones are also much older than that of the dinosaurs , and the answer to your first question has two parts, the evoloution of bipedial apes to humans, was very thorough and if the apes were not evolving they were dieing out, many of the neanderthals were alive on the Iberian peninsula (spain), while modern humans were just beginning to form the smaller societies.

Answer 6

Both our bone structures and our DNA suggest that we're descendents of apes. A lot of primitive humans don't walk the Earth today because as the world gets older and times passes, climates and weather change. A lot of species weren't able to adapt to temperate or climate changes and ended up dying out, while others of the same species migrated North to modern day Europe and adapted to form permanent settlements. That explains why some died out and other did not.

With some species of dinosaurs, we have whole chains of skeletal structures from when they were in their large, primitive form, to what we call modern day sharks, alligators, even bears! As other users have said, not all dinosaurs made it to evolve into other species, due to the mass extinction.

The thing is, there ARE bones everywhere! Archaeologists dig them up every day, making new connections to the past, and finding new "transitional" species that explain more about evolution. Evolution has some rough edges, but as we discover more and more each passing day, there's more pieces to the puzzle we're fitting in.

Religion is one story, wrapped up in one book, that we all expect to explain everything in the world. However, there are a lot of contradictions, loop holes, and missing pieces, but people still believe in it. Why can't people do the same with evolution, which is slowly explaining itself more and more? (With factual and hard evidence, unlike the Bible, which was written by the same people who thought the world was flat.)

Answer 7

Where are you getting your information? None of the issues you raised are actually problems in our understanding of evolution.

Consider an important trait like bipedalism. Current research suggests that it started amongst primates who foraged for fruit in trees because it allowed them better access to the thinner fruit-bearing branches. Some of the apes who then began to live on the forest floor developed knuckle walking. The homonids didn't. Take a trip to the zoo if you want to see the variety of stages still living.

We do have plenty of fossils and living animals that show transitional characteristics. See the links below or search on 'transitional fossil'.

Answer 8

There are none "stuck a few stages back" if I'm reading your question right because only those creatures that existed back then either evolved into what we now have today or they were unable to thrive as a species and further evolve.

As for your second answer you've got to remember that bones are difficult to make and it's by chance when one is created. It would be very tough to find fossils to fill every single gap found between what we have already discovered.

Answer 9

1. They did not. Go back far enough, and the evolutionary branches from our common ancestors go all over the place. Go right the way back and you find we share about 2/3 of our genes with grass!! All life ultimately had a common set of ancestors.

2. Dinosaurs suffered a mass extinction. Very few modern animals trace back to them - hence no transitionary forms. Of those that do, birds left plenty of transitional forms and gators are still here.

Answer 10

What is an "evolutionist"?? Is that something like a "photosynthesisist", a "believer" in photosynthesis? Or do you mean "biologist"?

The only species we see alive today are the end points of evolutionary lines that did not go extinct. Obviously we don't see extinct forms today, nor do we see, alive, the transitional species that led to the current species.

However, there are clear fossil transitional species between fish and amphibians; between amphibians and reptiles; between reptiles and mammals; and between reptiles and birds, in spite of the fact that we have barely scratched the surface of the earth in seraching for such species. However, when you present one of these transitional forms to a "Creationist", they just say, "That isn't a transtional form. It's just a bird that happens to have teeth and a reptilian tail and claws on its front limbs". Or "that's just a lizard that happens to have feathers". If someone is going to be completely irrational when presented with the hard evidence, why bother?

Incidentally, I am a "creationist" in the true sense of the word. I believe that God brought into being all that exists. Evolution is just a natural process that operates within His creation. Just like photosynthesis - which, incidentally, also evolved.

Answer 11

Your willing ignorance is not a valid reason for questioning evolution.

1) There are so many transitional fossils that often paleontologists have a hard time categorizing them all.

As an example, begin to research the evolution of whales...

2) Our predecessors died out due to the competition from the next in line of evolution (e.g. Neanderthals died out as a result of Homo Sapien) That is natural selection at work.

It is not a belief (like thinking there is a magical sky wizard) it is scientific fact.