For creationists and evolutionists?

Question

What do you think a 'transition' fossil is?

Do you think that this essay's introduction gives a good explanation?

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html

For the sake of thoughtful discussion, please read and reply to each other's responses, if you find this topic interesting.

Thanks!

(And let's keep it civil)

Born again- yeah, I screwed up the title the first time around.

Answer 1

Not all fossils are transitional and not all species are transitional. Species are considered to be transtional species only if they give rise to descendant species. And transitional fossils are those at the "base" of a new evolutionary "stem."

For those above wondering how the genetics of this are possible, or how the big bang started, that would require a lengthy answer; I would recommend reading a good text on molecular genetics, such as Sean Carroll's DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution or in cosmology Neil Tyson's Origins. There are answers folks!

For the zealous person below, I have already given you examples of transitional fossils. It is a lie that transitional forms have been debunked--read any good introductory text on paleontology. And about the "short" period of the Cambrian. The Cambrian lasted 55 million years. How is that a short time for you?

Answer 2

A "hopeful monster". Evolutionists hope they are there.

Most or all of the so-called transitional forms have been debunked.

One of Darwins's headaches, listed in The Origin of Species, was on lack of transitional fossils, knowing that the fossil record should be littered with them if evolution were true.

What we see is lots of fully formed fossils, without intermediates, extremely complex from the beginning of time, with a massive Cambrian Explosion of most families (about 35/40 phyla) in one short timespan.

Think of it: Why are "missing links" called such, when they've never been found in the first place? Where's my "missing" hundred dollar bill?

Answer 3

Communists have tried to purge the Earth of creationists for the previous couple centuries. If there is no God, then could makes good, and that's the the best determination premise in the back of communist dictatorships. It does ensue at present in China and another places. i does not choose to make certain the different part destroyed.

Answer 4

I am still looking for the transitional link between a dog and cat.

That, and waiting for an atheist or evolutionist to explain how the materials that formed the materials of the big bang got here. Where did the spark come from? Did it spontaneously generate?

In the evolutionary cycle of life, how did the wood ant learn not to eat the honeydew aphid that feeds it. For which, the aphids are a source of the honeydew that the ants eat.

It seems that the larger, better armed ant would eat the aphids like they eat everything else.

Can you imagine the first ant going up to the honeydew aphid and saying "Hey, I'm going to eat you".

And the aphid saying, "please Mr. Ant, I will give you honeydew if you do not eat me".

Evolutionists really need to rethink their theory.

Answer 5

Every fossil is a transitional fossil.

Answer 6

Figure don't lie but liars do figure. The psychotic religionist will not stop deluding themselves.

dendronbat Thanks for the info i am adding those book to my book list.

Answer 7

I would like to know how something can produce something else when the information isn't in the gene pool? How can a dog produce something else when the information was never in the gene pool?

Answer 8

Isn't this for the science section?