First of all, let's try not to follow this template. (Yeah, right!)
OK, now here's one decent-sized sample of the thing that supposedly doesn't exist. Make us all proud!
The crime here is not that evolutionists are trying to find a transitional fossil, it is that they are declaring finds “definitive” without doing even the most basic of research. The Tiktaalik was quickly shot down, ironically, by an animal that had previously been declared the definitive transitional fossil between sea dwellers and land species.
It wasn’t so long ago that the Coelacanth was the transitional fossil de jour. When the fossils were first discovered, the fin structure (similar to that of the Tiktaalik) was declared a “walking fin” and heralded as the transition between fins and feet. This came crashing down when a Coelacanth was discovered in a Japanese fish market on its way to making the transition between a fish and a really good bowl of soup. Since that time, the Coelacanth has been found alive, well, and not walking anywhere. It uses its unique fins to swim better, not walk to the local 7-11.
Another blow to the Tiktaalik is the fact that the fins evolutionists claim allow it to crawl on land are not attached to the skeletal structure with bone; the connection is made with muscle. In short, the fin cannot support weight. If I, as a human, were built like this, my bench press would max out at something about the size of a dandelion instead of the manly 85 lbs I currently work with. Once again, the Coelacanth is our model. It has a similar structure and, once again, is a pure swimmer.
The scientists in their verve to find a transitional fossil, ignored evidence from the natural world and basic physics when making their interpretations. Had they performed science in the proper way, they would not have thrown out the possibility of an evolutionary link, but they would have also considered other questions. As it stands, they found a fossil and immediately tried to reverse engineer the human condition to fit the evidence, despite the presence of other factors.
Anybody familiar with evolution knows this is not the first time this has happened. For years evolutionists have declared that dinosaurs evolved into birds. This is based on Chinese fossil imprints in rock that show feather like structures surrounding the bodies of dead dinosaurs.
This theory took a serious hit when paleobiologist Alan Feduccia of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill challenged the conclusion. He brought to light the idea that what was being misinterpreted as feather were actually the fossilized remains of "collagenous fiber meshworks" lying under the dinosaur's skin. To support this idea his colleague Dr. Theagarten Lingham-Soliar, buried a dolphin for one year, then exhumed it and looked at the patterns of decay. According to Lingham-Soliar’s experiment "The fiber-collagen meshwork looked virtually identical to these so-called 'proto-feathers' found in the Chinese dinosaurs," Feduccia said.
So keep throwing those phony transitional species and we will keep shooting them down. I do admire your faith though.
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