I am not convince by these arguments
I am not convince by these arguments
It's a mistaken notion by creationists that transitional fossils are not conclusive of evolution. There are of course "gaps" (as commonly or expectedly argued by creationists) or popularly "missing links" (which is downright inaccurate and confusing) between transitional fossils and science naturally admits that since it is next to impossible to find all fossils of every animal in transition from one specie to the other. However, these so-called "gaps" do not indicate lack of coherence to dismiss altogether the idea of evolution. Transitional fossils only exemplify snapshots of the evolutionary process but it's worth noting that there are well-documented transitions within taxa or between closely related taxa over a geologically short period of time to conclude the evolution of these recorded organisms - cladistics provides us a model to understand these dated morphological divergence.
A common claim made by major creationist groups such as Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research is that there are no transitional fossils. Such claims may be based on a misunderstanding of the nature of what represents a transitional feature but are also explained as a tactic actively employed by creationists seeking to distort or discredit evolutionary theory and has been called the "favourite lie" of creationists. Source: Evolution: What missing link? - life - 27 February 2008 - New Scientist
To know more about transitional fossils on and evolution of whales suggest you visit National Geographics website: Evolution of Whales @ nationalgeographic.com --> in this excerpt you will note that the ancestors of what we commonly know as whales used to be dry-dwelling animals. It took millions of years for whales to evolve from walking land animals into the water-dwelling creatures of today.![]()
Ever wonder why humans are 70% water not 70% dust?
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