I personally don't put much stock in evolution because if all there is was created by random mutation, the fossil record should be crammed full of things that did not make it, and it isn't. That's my two cents.
First of all, you need to understand the process of fossilization and understand the extreme conditions it takes to fossilize an animal. If a carcass isn't fully eaten and scattered across a large area it then has to be in the right place at the right time for fossilization to take place. I'm sure there are an untold number of species we'll never know about.
"First of all, you need to understand the process of fossilization and understand the extreme conditions it takes to fossilize an animal. If a carcass isn't fully eaten and scattered across a large area it then has to be in the right place at the right time for fossilization to take place. I'm sure there are an untold number of species we'll never know about."
Perhaps, but we are talking "billions" of years and thousands upon thousands of "random" mutations to arrive at where things are today, if they evolved that way. For the preserved record to show so few if any examples of evolution, I find very suspect. Maybe examples are waiting to be discovered, I don't know. I agree above that it would not be realistic to have an example of every single thing preserved in the fossil record.
Yeah, like evolution actually *predicted* that the evidence would be missing!
Can't beat a theory like that...literally.