It is not even fair of me to bring up another evolution argument because most readers here have been through this so many times.
But I will. I am just going to make one point and then you can have the final word on it for now.
I am just musing about this because I do not know the accuracy to what I am proposing. But my question is “How long do you think it would take for a lizard to turn into a flying bird?” Or, “How many biological and physiological changes must have taken place?” Here I have no idea but would you not think it would be in the thousands? Surely to make an eyeball would be far more than that. But back to the lizard-bird metamorphisis. How many years might that take, all those changes to achieve this full transition? Are any of your text books telling us this? How about 50,000 years? Let’s use that.
No. Much longer than 50,000 years. It's more in the range of 100 my. And it evolved from a dinosaur, not lizard. Besides, we do have quite a bit of fossil record of this. Also, birds still carry the gene for the teeth they share with the archaeopteryx.
So now I am saying that to make these serious transitions from species to species like that, there is a very long period of “transition.” So then why is every single animal since man has been around in its complete state?
They've not. They've changed. There are many observed changes in many different species. They're not in their "complete" state.
Why are there not thousands, if not millions, somewhere in the middle of a major change to a higher species?
Every individual
is the middle of the change to the next. You are the "missing" link between your parents and your children. And there's no "higher" species. There are just species of different kinds. One is "higher" for a given context, but the context changes. The environmental niche is that context.
When there had to have been millions of animals in the transition stages at any one time in history, why is everything so nice and tidy since man has been around?
If you think it's nice and tidy, then you're thinking wrong. Biology is not nice and tidy, and the classification of species is very, very difficult just because of so many shared traits. And on top of that hybrids and mosaic parts of it just makes it hared.
If it takes 50,000 or a million years to complete the process then probabilities demand there would always be present countless animals doing something very noticeable.
It's not that noticeable most of the time. The changes tend to be very small, but many over time. It's like how you would make a morphing character in an animation. Or what they call "tweening" in Flash. Small changes over a time span results in a big change between first and last frame.
Always was and still should be now, if not now more than ever with multi-millions of fish, birds, animal and insect species now around. I don’t see it. I don’t buy it.
Where did dalmatians come from? When were they created?
I went to a Bible school /seminary for a year. We studied the historicity of Christianity and the evidence for Jesus' existence.
I also went to college and took anthropology classes, much more recent, and I learned about the evidence for evolution.
The result from those two experiences show very clearly to me that the evidence for evolution is thousands, if not millions of times stronger and complete than any so called evidence for Jesus.
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I will give you just some simple examples of evolution. Today we drink a lot of beer. Beer is made by using grains, yeast, and hops (and water). The yeast and hops give a lot of the flavor to the beer. The yeast and hops we use today didn't exist 10, 20, 100 years ago. It has been cultivated through letting it grow and mutate(!) and we pick the best ones. This is how it works. The selection part for beer hops and yeast were made by humans, but the random mutation to give us the options were not made by humans. We can't control that yet. So... mutation and selection works. New things (and good and tasty things) come about through mutations even if you don't believe it or not. It is a fact of nature.