For Creationists: Is Tiktaalik roseae a transitional fossil?

Question

http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/

If not, what qualifies as a transitional fossil? Or maybe it's a hoax?

Of course the question isn't directed towards Intelligent Design proponents. I'll have one for you later.

Answer 1

We zoologist prefer to talk of transitional features. Whichever, though, it will never be enough for people who remain willfully ignorant.

Answer 2

the way the two facets perspectives the belief of transitional varieties. Creationists - think of of transitional varieties in terms of intermediates between the created forms of animals. This incorporates in part formed areas. Evolutionists - see each and every animal and man or woman as a transitional style, and function a tendency to interpret the fossil information from this perspective. "The nicely-preserved maintains to be of Tiktaalik bypass an prolonged way, yet no longer incredibly the finished way, in the direction of filling the hollow interior the fossil checklist between the earliest tetrapods and the lobe-finned fish that preceded them, says [Jennifer A.] Clack [a vertebrate paleontologist on the college of Cambridge]. even inspite of the undeniable fact that the bones in Tiktaalik’s fin resemble those of tetrapod digits, they’re nonetheless very lots area of a fin. If the digits of early tetrapods developed from those bones, the approach could have in touch significant adjustments in anatomical progression." Perkins, S. 2006. “Amphibious Ancestors.” technological expertise information 169, no. 24. For each and absolutely everyone of those beneficial factors, in spite of the undeniable fact that, it particularly is obvious that Tiktaalik grow to be in simple terms a fish; its lobed fins seem greater advantageous perfect for swimming in water particularly than crawling on land, and different fish, such by using fact the Coelacanth, have been additionally concept to be "lacking hyperlinks" till they have been got here upon to be some form of fish. it particularly is been placed by way of evolutionists alongside Archaeopteryx, yet they fail to confirm that neither animal grow to be a transitional style; archaeopteryx grow to be an entire fowl, tiktaalik grow to be an entire fish. by using fact evolution by way of random mutations could happen at an particularly sluggish and sluggish value, we could continuously come across a non-supply up sequence of intermediate fossils that illustrate the transition from one form of organism to a distinctive if this concept is valid. The sheer absence of those transitional varieties is the main reiterated empirical information against evolution. in this area creationists have ordinarily been helped by way of evolutionists decrying the state of the fossil checklist.

Answer 3

Oh of COURSE it's a hoax, can't you tell? I mean, God you people are so ignorant....anyway, enough of the impersonation...great question and for the people out there, it IS real...no hoax...but still...people could just say that it died in the Flood 'cause it was 'of the devil' but who knows...ignorance is indeed bliss....

Answer 4

does anyone else cringe when they read stuff like this?

"We also knew that some fish in the Middle Devonian (375 million years ago) were experimenting with the internal structure of their fins in ways that would ultimately allow for the evolution of the weight bearing structure of tetrapod limbs."

Answer 5

I'm curious as to why you take so much obvious pride in being confrontational and why if you are truly intelligent you wouldn't present your arguments in more constructive terms.

Answer 6

Ahhhh... my little tik... nice to see you this evening.... *smiles*