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To: Alter Kaker

I didn’t think evolutionists admitted there were any missing links. I guess there aren’t until they find one? Now we are back to no missing links?


20 posted on 11/07/2014 2:55:57 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I didn’t think evolutionists admitted there were any missing links. I guess there aren’t until they find one? Now we are back to no missing links?

Until we have a fossil of every individual organism that ever existed (which by definition is impossible) we will have missing links. So your point is a red herring. There are some lineages that we have a strong evolutionary record for, and others that we have a weaker evolutionary record for.

25 posted on 11/07/2014 2:58:33 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
remember the LUCY Fiasco? tha other missing link...that wasnt?





I dont know which color "bone" was actually found...and which was "re" "constructed" OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH...
39 posted on 11/07/2014 3:08:25 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I suspect that there may still be missing links wandering around in the brains of evolutionists. Look, the entire theory of macro-evolution is so absurd that it takes a wild imagination to buy any of it.

“Look fellas, I can fly, I can fly!! Landing? Uh oh.”

Thus a wondrous mutation was nipped in the bud. *Sigh*


159 posted on 11/08/2014 7:11:03 AM PST by alstewartfan (Rainstorm brainstorm,Faces in the maelstromHuddled by the puddles in the shadows where drains run.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
The Ghost of FReepers Past: "I didn’t think evolutionists admitted there were any missing links.
I guess there aren’t until they find one?
Now we are back to no missing links?"

No, you have it backwards.
Every individual and every fossil is a "transitional form" between its ancestors and its descendants, if any.
So any fossils found anywhere on earth can be related back to their more ancient ancestors, and potentially to their more modern descendants.

However, you must remember that there are today approximately 50,000 named vertebrate animal species (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians & fish), and it is estimated a typical species survives around a million years before it goes extinct, or becomes so changed it must be reclassified under a new species name.
So, if we just consider the past 100 million years, we are looking at something like five million vertebrate species that roamed the earth, flew its skies or swam its seas.

Of those five million distinct species, we have found fossils for fewer than one percent, meaning 99% of the "transitional forms", aka "missing links" are still missing!

Of course, every year scientists working in the field find and name fossils of species never seen before, so slowly, slowly the number of "missing links" diminishes.
But at the current rate, it will be a very long time indeed, if ever, before there are more "link" species found than still missing.

189 posted on 11/10/2014 8:19:57 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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