I've got a great sense of humor. To prove it I'll ask again:
In your opinion, how many fossils has science led us to believe exist? How much are they exaggerating?
You must have some kind of numbers on this. Of course, if you want to say that your accusation of mass fraud on the part of paleontologists is simply your *opinion* and that you have no facts to back it up, well, I'll understand.
But it would be really cool if you could prove how many fossils there really are, compared to how many scientists *say* there are.
I really hope you can "dig up" those numbers...
I didn't accuse anyone of "mass fraud" as you call it. You missed my point. Re-read and if you still don't understand, then it is my fault for being obtuse. Sorry.
Well, thank about it. We have several hundred Cambrian and pre-Cambrian species identified, so there is at least one fossil (and often very many) of each species. Then you have the literally thousands of fossil arthropod species, something like a thousand dinosaur species (with more being discovered every year), thousands of fossil bird, reptile, mammal, mammal-like reptile, fish and amphibian species all being represented in the fossil record. Hell, simply for hominids we have something like 100-150 Neanderthal representatives, and that's just one of more than a dozen hominid species already identified.
I'm thinking the number of extent fossils would number in the millions, including the lovely 1-inch trilobite sitting on my bookshelf at home.