Oklahoma 46 wrote:
Okay I stand corrected; many fossils are just a bone or tooth. The fossils referred to are those showing more complete ‘critters’ and there are none that demonstrate evolution. With millions of critters alive on earth today there should be ancestors by the millions that are less complex and there should be some fossils of those critters. There are none.
You must be looking in the wrong places. There are literally millions of fossils in collections in museums and universities around the world. Some of them are of lines that died out. Many others actually are predecessors of creatures alive today, back to such creatures as polychaete worms.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/annelid-bristle-worm-fossil-discovered-canada-spd/We don't have many worm fossils, or older critters, because it's very rare for small, soft-bodied creatures to be preserved. The few that weren't eaten we most likely crushed.
Oklahoma 46 wrote:
As for the Australopithecus - he/she is just following behind the Piltdown Man, Peking Man, Nebraska Man - a lineup of former missing links.
Actually, "Piltdown Man" is in a category by itself, because it was a deliberate hoax - a gorilla mandible joined to a human cranium. The hoax was discovered and exposed, because most scientists want to keep the process honest and above reproach.
Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is legit, about 700,000 years old, though there is debate on whether it was a direct ancestor of modern man.
"Nebraska man" was named on the basis of a badly weathered tooth that was originally misidentified as human. Turned out to be the tooth of an extinct species of peccary. Rather than a hoax, this was a simple mistake. Humans did not evolve in the Americas, but migrated here.
Oklahoma 46 wrote:
Someday this youngster [Australopithecus afarensis] will fall off the world stage like all the rest.
Not bloody likely. Lucy's place in human evolution is well established.
Oklahoma 46 wrote:
Here’s a question for you. Do you believe in the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Do the tires on your car regenerate or do they wear out and you have to replace them? By the way, I know the answer. Why is all of creation in the grip of that Second Law except for evolution?
Because evolution applies to life. Not to nonliving objects. The comparison is not valid.
Oklahoma 46 wrote:
The Grand Canyon is made of multiple layers of sediment. Evolution says those layers took millions of years per each to form. [Actually, that was geology; evolution only applies to living things!] How did those layers not erode during those millions of years? The top of the canyon has erosion showing where rain water and snowmelt have carried material over the side into the river below. There is no erosion between those layers. How did that happen?
What you see in the sides of the Grand Canyon are the strata of millions of years of deposition. Erosion applies only to exposed surfaces - the top surface, and the sides and bottom of the canyon. The real erosion happened in the canyon itself, where the Colorado River has carved its way through the rocks. I assume you know this, and were throwing out this specious argument in an attempt to "trap" me.