Where are all the supposed transitional fossils between the Precambrian and Cambrian periods?

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Answer 1

"Supposed". Why should I waste my time trying to inform someone whose mind has already been made up? Either reword your question or be prepared for no answers.

Answer 2

Is this a joke? Precambrian life forms were little round blobs, one unicellular life form blob looked like another life form blob. You cannot have a transitional form half way between one blob and another.

Answer 3

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This explains it very well. Very detailed!

-The Fossil Record and Education

“So many intermediate forms have been discovered between fish and amphibians, between amphibians and reptiles, between reptiles and mammals and along the primate lines of decent that it is often difficult to identify categorically when the transition occurs from one to another species.”

NAS, Science and Creationism, 1999.

Is this true?

“Fossils offer the most direct evidence that evolution takes place….

Fossils, therefore, provide an actual record of Earth’s past life-forms. Change over time (evolution) can be seen in the fossil record.”

Biology: Principles and Explorations, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2001, p. 283.

Is this true?

According to the evolutionary theory-

The Cambrian Explosion

"The foundation for the geologic column and fossil record is the Cambrian and Precambrian time periods.

The Cambrian explosion (Biology’s Big Bang) is the sudden appearance of complex multicellular animals.

-The entire period lasted 5 – 10 million years.

-Every major body plan suddenly appeared during this period.

-These same body plans (designs) still exist today."

Evidence versus evolution

-Darwinian evolution teaches that life began with a single cell and evolved into many complex creatures.

-Based on Darwinian evolution there should be thousands (or millions) of transitional creatures between a cell and complex creatures like trilobites and sea shells.

-The Cambrian/Precambrian time period does not support Darwinian evolution. There are no intermediate (transitional forms) found during this period.

-“There is no question that such gaps exist. A big gap appears at the beginning of the Cambrian explosion, over 500 million years ago, when great numbers of new species suddenly appeared in the fossil record.”

David Berlinski (evolutionist), A Tour of the Calculus, 1995.

-“The Cambrian explosion is not just a case of all the major animal phyla appearing at about the same place in the geologic column. It is also a situation of no ancestors to suggest how they might have evolved.”

Ariel Roth (Ph.D. Zoology), Origins,1998, p. 184.

-Where are the thousands of observable intermediates? The model of evolution does not agree with the evidence.

-“The Cambrian Period, which began 544 million years ago, is marked by an abundance of different fossils. Why the difference from earlier periods?

By the Cambrian period, some animals had evolved shells, skeletons, and other hard body parts…”

Biology, Miller and Levine, 2002, p. 746.

-Even textbooks admit there was a sudden appearance of complex life forms and are unable to support the claim of evolution with real evidence.

Great claims require REAL evidence

-What do the facts support? The Biblical model of “created after their kind”.

-Invertebrate to Vertebrate (Fish)

“Fishes are considered to be the most primitive living vertebrates…

…similarities in structure and embryological development show that fishes and modern invertebrate chordates probably did evolve from common invertebrate ancestors that lived many millions of years ago.”

Biology, Miller and Levine, 2000, p. 680.

-Note the words “probably did evolve” in the above textbook quote. This is an admission that they do not have the evidence to support their claim that fish evolved from invertebrates.

-There is not one single intermediate in the textbook to support the claim of fish evolution.

-What do the facts (invertebrate to vertebrate) support? The Biblical model of “created after their kind”.

-“However, we have virtually no evidence in the fossil record or elsewhere for any of the changes proposed during this ‘immensity of time’; but the public hears nothing of this problem.”

Aerial Roth (Ph.D. Zoology), Origins, p. 189.

-Fish to Amphibian evolution

-Textbooks claim that lobed-finned fish evolved into amphibians.

-“Because of these similarities, scientists think the first amphibians were descendants of the lobe-finned fishes, a group whose modern members include the coelacanth and the lungfishes.”

Biology: Visualizing Life, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1998, p. 461.

-Note the words “scientists think.” This is an admission there is not evidence to support the claim of fish to amphibian evolution.

-Evolutionists in the past used the Coelacanth as evidence fish were evolving into amphibians. The claim was that the front fins were “evolving” into legs.

-The Coelacanth was supposed to be extinct for 70 million years.

-In 1938 living coelacanths were found still living. The front fins were not legs, but fins. This is another misinterpretation of the fossil record by evolutionists.

-Famous Transitions Used to Support Evolution

Reptile to mammal – the horse

-“The horse is a well-documented case study in evolution. The fossil record shows clear steps in the progression from a four-toed, small browsing animal - one of a line that gave rise to tapirs, rhinoceroses, and other mammals in addition to horses - to the modern horse,…”

"Evolutionary History of the Modern Horse," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation.

-“According to the theory of gradualism, new species of horses evolved slowly and continuously. Intermediate forms were common. . .

-According to punctuated equilibria, new species evolved rapidly during a short period of time. Intermediate forms were rare.”

Life Sciences, Prentice Hall, 2002, p. 164.

-The above textbook quote claims that if we find many intermediate horse fossils it is support for evolution and if we don’t find intermediate horse fossils it is also support for evolution. This is a nonsense statement because evolution is claimed to be true with or without evidence.

-“As the biologist Heribert-Nilsson said, ‘The family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuous only in the textbooks’, and the famous paleontologist Niles Eldredge called the textbook picture ‘lamentable’ and ‘a classical case of paleontologic museology'.”

Jonathan Sarfati (Ph.D. Physical Chemistry), Creation Ex Nihilo, 1999.

-“The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed, fox-sized creatures, living nearly 50 million years ago, to today’s much larger one-toed horse, has been known to be wrong… Transitional forms are unknown.”

Boyce Rensberger (senior editor of Science 80), Houston Chronicle, Nov. 5, 1980, p. 15.

-Scientists find “fossil horses” mixed throughout all the different time layers, meaning they all lived at the same time

-The rib count, vertebrae count, tooth count and the size of the animal, varies widely and does not show any direct line of progression (18, 15, 19, 18)

-What do the facts support?

-The Biblical model of “created after their kind”.

-Living horses come in a wide range of sizes: English Shire: over 6 ½ feet, Ponies: under 5 feet, Fallabella: under 2 feet.

-Some horses today have 3 toes.

-Many different varieties of horses exist today that resemble horse fossils.

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-Reptile to bird evolution

-“To many paleontologists a bird is a dinosaur with feathers. That definition may sound odd, but it makes sense. The first fossil ever found of an early birdlike animal is in the genus Archaeopteryx and dates from late in the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.”

Biology, Miller and Levine, 2002, p. 907.

-“Birds evolved from reptiles during the Jurassic period.”

Biology: Principles and Explorations, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2001, p. 268.

-Archaeopteryx is one of the main evidences used by evolutionists to support reptile to bird evolution. However, one of the leading experts in birds disagrees with archaeopteryx being the intermediate link between reptiles and birds.

“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.”

Alan Feduccia (World authority on birds), Science, “Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms”, 1993.

-Archaeopteryx differs from reptiles.

-It had claws on its wings, but so do the ostrich and hoatzin.

It had teeth, but so do other fossil birds, and its teeth differed from those of reptiles.

-Only birds have feathers and Archaeopteryx had perfectly developed wings.

-“The imprint they left in the rock, clear and sharp, makes it evident that the feathers of Archaeopteryx were already in Jurassic time exactly like those of birds flying today.”

Barbara Stahl, Vertebrate History: Problems in Evolution

-Birds older than Archaeopteryx have been found.

-“The first fossil ever found of an early birdlike animal is in the genus Archaeopteryx and dates from late in the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.”

-“A fossil resembling a modern bird has been found in Eastern Colorado in the same geologic strata as Archaeopteryx.”

Jean L. Marx, Science, “The Oldest Fossil Bird: A Rival for Archaeopteryx?”, 1978, p. 284.

-Texas Tech researchers have reported discovering bird fossils in rocks dated much older [than Archaeopteryx].

-“Birds are so different from other creatures that there would have been hundreds of thousands of intermediate forms between birds and land animals if birds had evolved.”

Stuart Burgess (Ph.D. Engineering Design, Professor of Combustion Theory, extensive study in the area of design in nature), Hallmarks of  Design, 2002, p. 47.

“As for its ‘reptile’ characteristics, yes, it had claws on its wings, but so does the ostrich, and nob