Fossil

IF EVOLUTION HAS OCCURRED, THE FOSSIL RECORD SHOULD CLEARLY SHOW INTERMEDIATE STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISTINCT, ANATOMICAL FEATURES. SUCH AS PARTIALLY DEVELOPED:- BONES, SHELLS OF SNAILS & SHELLFISH ETC. AS BILLIONS OF CREATURES WITH INTERMEDIATE FEATURES WOULD HAVE LIVED AND DIED IN THE MILLIONS OF YEARS REQUIRED FOR THESE STRUCTURES TO BE ACQUIRED AND PERFECTED, SUCH FOSSILS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY ABUNDANT. PARTICULARLY IF CREATURES WITH HARD PARTS EVOLVED FROM SOFT-BODIED CREATURES, THEN THE GRADUAL ACQUISITION OF HARD PARTS BY SOFT-BODIED CREATURES SHOULD BE ABUNDANTLY DOCUMENTED IN THE FOSSIL RECORD. ESPECIALLY AS THESE HARD PARTS, SUCH AS SHELLS AND BONES ARE SO EASILY AND FREQUENTLY PRESERVED AS FOSSILS. SO WHERE CAN I SEE SUCH FOSSILS?
- asked by A.M.D.G

Answer #1
A very good question.A couple hundred years ago,there were people such as Richard Owen who couldlook at one bone from any animal , past andpresent, and could draw the rest of the animalpretty well and completely. It turns out therewere many times that volcanos asteroids, whatever,temp changes, etc, caused mass extinctions. Thosebrilliant anatomists just thought God started newwith each extinction cuz it looked that way. Asmore fossil evidence gets found, more missingpieces get placed, the puzzle is now pretty clear.At least if you really look at the evidence andhave an open mind.
- answered by kurticus1024

Answer #2
go to talk.origins.org, they have hundreds ofpictures for you. also, try the Chicago museum ofNatural History, many hundreds of transitionalfossils on display there.
- answered by Kutekymmee

Answer #3
most museums will have some on show. sometimes youcan find them in the west country on the beachesif you look carefully.
- answered by hakuna matata

Answer #4
Check the link below. It has a shell, but theshell isn't spiraled the way a snail's shell wouldbe today.You can also google for "small shellyfauna."
- answered by emucompboy



Answer #5
First, turn off the caps lock and calm down.Then,think about it. If an organism has no hard partof shell, do you think it would be easilyperserved as a fossil? Now, I think you wouldagree that some organisms have thicker or hardershells than others, even in the same genus. So,can we agree that some snails have thicker andharder shells than others?Now can we agree thatthe snails that have harder and thicker shellswill be represented in the fossil record moreoften? That one probably will be hard for you toagree to because of your understanding offossils.If there were snails that had just a verythin and soft shell in the course of evolution,they probably would not have been preserved asfossils.
- answered by DanE

Answer #6
Typical Creationist dishonesty. What use wouldhalf an arm bone be?? Of course you don't get"transitional fossils" when you dishonestly definethem as such. Nothing in Evolutionary Theory saysthat you would. Either you have no idea of whatyou are talking about and you are repeatingdishonesty heard elsewhere, or else you areoutright dishonest yourself. And of course no-onerespects such disgraceful dishonesty.The fossilrecord shows nothing but macroevolution -incremental change from one morphotype to thenext. Take your hateful head out of the sand andtake a look for yourself.
- answered by timeponderer