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Let me throw this out there. Animals slowly developed defenses against predators so their species would survive. I am told to believe these defenses take a very long time to develope. I cannot help but wonder why wouldn't the predators kill them off in the meantime? I mean, "It's not an armoured plate yet, it's hard skin, wait 50,000 years, you won't eat me then!" or " I can't really fly yet, but you just wait 100,000 years, you won't catch me then!"

I am told to believe these defenses take a very long time to develope. I cannot help but wonder why wouldn't the predators kill them off in the meantime?

This tells of a lack of understanding of the evolution of defensive traits. Defensive traits evolved because as the creatures started to develop them, they had a survival advantage over other creatures without them. As such, they were less likely to be killed off by predators. That they survived as long as they did means that they were able to avoid extinction, not that they were able to completely avoid being killed by predators at all.

Animals slowly developed defenses against predators so their species would survive. I am told to believe these defenses take a very long time to develope. I cannot help but wonder why wouldn't the predators kill them off in the meantime? I mean, "It's not an armoured plate yet, it's hard skin, wait 50,000 years, you won't eat me then!" or " I can't really fly yet, but you just wait 100,000 years, you won't catch me then!"

This is one of the problems with evolutionary theory. On the one hand it says that species change in order to conform to changes in the environment, on the other it says that these changes are gradual and take a long time. Now, environmental changes affecting species include other species around them and of course a new species moving into an area which it previously did not inhabit can cause great destruction. This is one of the reasons for strong controls on importation of animals and plants from different countries - they often destroy existing species, they do not cause them to mutate and survive. This is just another example where commonly known and commonly applied scientific principles show evolution to be false.