[bray]

So there should be millions of transitory fossils and species yet there are none. You have to have a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

How did life begin?

[Simon Green]

So there should be millions of transitory fossils and species yet there are none

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

[exDemMom]

So there should be millions of transitory fossils and species yet there are none. You have to have a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

Actually, there are tons of transitory fossils, and they tell the story quite well. Furthermore, it takes absolutely no faith to sequence the same gene across a number of species, analyze the sequences against each other, and derive a phylogenetic tree from the data. And the fact that the phylogenetic tree derived from molecular data so closely matches the evolutionary trees derived from paleontological and geologic studies is an excellent corroboration that the science is accurately capturing the essence of real processes.

Don’t tell me, let me guess—you are a science denier, much like those who claim that X and Y chromosomes have nothing to do with gender.

[nwrep]

So there should be millions of transitory fossils and species yet there are none.

I have heard this claim repeated hundreds of times, mainly by Christian conservatives and such (e.g. Ken Ham). Is there a publicly accepted citation of this fact?

[DennisR]

“They” just have not found all of the transitory fossils yet. /s