Creationists Vs Transitional Fossils - DEBUNKED!

Genesis Apologetics smacks a line-drive straight into the dugout with this one - a sniggering critique of famous fossils Archaeopteryx and Tiktaalik, prehistoric creatures which clearly show traits of a transition between animal groups.

Bad science or anti-evolution smoke-and-mirrors? Once again, Talk Beliefs asks you to be the judge. ;-)

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A big thank you to: Bill Ludlow and Alex Reubenstahl, for their help in the making of this video response!

BILL LUDLOW studied Geology and Anthropology at Michigan State University and has been an avid amateur geologist, paleontologist, and fossil collector for many years.
He is currently the Origins Expert for the Origins Gallery at the Arizona Museum of Natural History.


ALEX REUBENSTAHL studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., currently finishing up his geology undergraduate and biology undergraduate degree.
Alex looks forward to beginning his Paleo bio masters work on early crocodile evolution in DC in 2018. He’s worked in the field in Lesotho, South Africa -- and soon in China.
Dr. James Clark, Professor of Biology, is his advisor.

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[Funça_do_ancapistão]

It's hilarious how they are ignorant and proud of it

[ghostcontrollingameatsuit]

Its funny how basically every Christian "science" channel blocks comments, they certainly wouldn't want any debate going on down there.

[AJenbo]

"They found more then one transitional fossil so the first one is fake", "there should be many transitional fossils, so since there are only a few they must be fake".
... maybe they should have picked an argument before writing there script.

[hammalammadingdong]

I love these creationist videos. Their intellectual dishonesty would be hilarious, but for the fact that - tragically - there are still people who think incredulity, ignorance, and fallacious assertions are evidence.

[therealzilch]

In related news, the Earth is flat and Elvis is alive.

[CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY]

Jesus Christ Creationuts, every fossil ever discovered in the fossil record...is a transitional fossil.

[YarbroK]

"This is not a transition fossil because there are older transition fossils!" -Creationists

[runicspyder]

The creationists in the comments are depressing and infuriating. I used to be indoctrinated like that too but I grew up.

[alheeley]

Someday quite soon creationists will be judged as transitional fossils. Bathe in the irony.

[avan]

Technically, Archaeopteryx was not "half bird, half dinosaur, " but more like "half bird, all dinosaur." It was on its way to being a bird, but even a bird is still 100% dinosaur, just like a snake is still 100% reptile even though it lost its limbs and eyelids. But that concept might make a creationists' heads explode, so I can see why you glossed over it.

[jjackomin]

Every animal that has ever lived is a transitional form.

[MadScientist]

What about the mudskipper? Isn't it OBVIOUS that the mudskipper is a LIVING transitional species between fish and amphibians?

[umachan]

Here's the thing. Just because you have evidence of one creature existing before another, doesn't invalidate the original creature as a missing link or transitional fossil.

Creationists have this funny concept of evolution in that you had one creature and only one creature that could have been this way. For example one creature evolved the eye first and all other creatures with eyes evolved from that one. Actually no. Many different eyes evolved differently and in different ways. For example the optic nerve for the octopus doesn't cross the retina resulting in the blind spot that we have because ours does. Their eyes are simply better from a design POV.

But no, more apologetics, fake science and just plain old lies is what we get from creationists.

[PaulTheSkeptic]

"Yes, of course this is preposterous. I was the one first coined the phrase in 1980 that Archeopteryx was the Rosetta stone of evolution. Archeopteryx was clearly a transitional form between reptiles and birds the question is which group of reptiles." Alan Feduccia on this quote mine.
Alan might have some unusual ideas but he's not a pseudoscientist. Although, I'd be surprised if he hadn't changed his mind by now with all the evidence we have connecting theropods with birds. But he just believed they came from another group of reptiles.

These idiots don't seem to understand what scientists saying. It's either that or they're dishonestly and deliberately trying to obfuscate. Why can't they at least get it right instead of straw manning.

[abramgaller]

Fossils are exceedingly rare, there is no implication that transitional would ever be discovered.

[lextonrose]

Uhhhm... I'm pretty flabergasted. This is a pretty terrible scrutiny of the video backed not by facts but are tangled in the web of beliefs and assumptions. Just a little fact, a famous feather of this animal which was propagated as so, was found this year to not belong.... at all to the creature. After many many years of holding to that "fact" .How much more (can) be wrong in the coming years? But this "fact" will remain in literature around the world and people will believe it.

[PraiseTheFSMonster]

It's so sad that were still fighting this battle in 2018 😧

[ericvulgate]

'half dinosaur and half bird' the way a dachshund is half dog and half canine.

[Roedygr]

punctuated equilibrium: Gould pointed out that evolution often occurs in spurts when the environment changes abruptly. This is the time you will get new species. There are plenty of fossils in the long period of little change. There are few fossils in the transition period simply because that period is short. Creationists are often under the delusion nearly every dead animal turns into a fossil. It is extremely rare requiring a precise coincidence of conditions.

[Peter_Scheen]

The fact that there is a discussion whether Archeopterix is a bird or a dino simply shows that it has traits of both claids. It is a transitional species....
That Tiktaalik might not have been the first land animal is still not evidence of creation. It simply shows it is more complex then the creationists want you to believe.
Once you have done looking at this series I suggest you go to AronRa or Tony Reed or any secular scientist and compare them.