Why are there gaps in the fossil record?

Gaps in the fossil record
From the BBC . A childrens learning program called 'Class Clips'. It's for school revision. I downloaded it from BBCi

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• fossil
• Gaps
• record

[RichoRosai]

u keep tellin urselfs that until u stand in jugement be4 god and jesus see if he buys it ya

[DrMontague]

Not another fruit cake. Some of the god freaks keep on claiming that not one transitional fossil has been found , therefore evolution never happened. However this vid shows the religious nuts to be either liars, pig headed ignorant, or afraid to face the truth. DNA is the final nail in the coffin of creationism. It gives compelling evidence for evolution even if we had never found one transitional fossil.

[RichoRosai]

I'm more of a salad than a cake really.

Still, it never fails to baffle me though why some people bother to write out arguments and refutations for the sake of someone like "me" who can hardly express a simple coherent thought.

[DrMontague]

Because it good sport taking the piss out of them. Esp when you can tell them that god was a fuckwit for planting a tree of knowledge right in the middle of his front lawn, he was asking for trouble. Some snakey bastard was bound to come along and tempt Eve to eat the fruit. BTW where did Adam and Eve shit ? What did they use to wipe their arses ? fig leaves? Where did they dispose of them? See you can have great fun.

[noobrication]

what program is this from? i assume its a recent one from the darwin week/month on BBC? also have u ordered one of the tree fo life posters?

[DrMontague]

It's a BBC childrens learning program called 'Class Clips'. It's for school revision. I downloaded it from BBCi. It's still on if you want to download it. I use replay media capture to download it. I'm uploading he whole program. Watch this space :)

[ORACLE063]

Lets see what Zeus and Hercules have to say about evolution.

Lets see what Osiris and Horus have to say.

Lets see what Enki and Adapta have to say about evolution.

All of the above statements are equally as retarded as yours.

Lets turn our focus, not from modern research but to the yammerings of stone age man. Yea good idea. while we are at it why dont we stone a sinner and sacrifice a virgin.

[bobinmass]

Of course, as thinking people know, there are no gaps in the fossils.

There are hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence of evolution due to fossils, embryology, genetics(DNA), anatomy, etc.

And, oh, not one piece of evidence of the existence of any gods.

[snuffpuppy1]

i made this programme! At least this section doesnt contain my own voiceover! x

[tacopylas]

Ah, the good Doctor. It's been too long :)

[FeynmanMH42]

I got one of the tree of life posters. It's great, but it is a bit heavily animal-centric. Plants are much smaller, and micro-organisms barely get a mention.