Why Are There No Transitions In The Fossil Record?

A response not only to Andrewkinghorn15's video on Archaeopteryx lithographica, but to EVERYONE using the tired, worn out 'no transitional fossils' argument against reality. It's not my contribution to this vid (pretty pictures & John Lennon) that are important, but Andrew's own words
When asked to post this as a response to his vid, Andrew (3 weeks later) replied:

"Let me think...No!
What don't people understand about interpretation you have interpreted what Archaeopteryx [is] to fit your world view! It's as simple as that."

So, even though "Archaeopteryx fits the criteria for a missing link", it is not a 'missing link'.
Why? Because it doesn't "fit his worldview".

Imagine telling your bank, "Well, yes... I can see that the math DOES indeed show that I'm $30 overdrawn, but I don't believe I am".

Or, stepping out without an umbrella saying, "It fits the criteria for a rainy day, I'll give ya that. But I don't think any such weather pattern exists".

Andrew's original video:
(Prepare yourself first. Might wanna get some popcorn...
maybe a drool rag ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRPgaZslJM

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[19Lion8]

Is this supposed to be evidence of evolution!?....So a darwinisnts nealy puts fragments of bones in a neat line & it's suppossed to prove evolution?..I can put million yr old rocks next to a human skull & invent a theory that we evolved from rocks. Sorry darwinists, evolution is a theory. A false theory at that.

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

@19Lion8

"Is this supposed to be evidence of evolution!"

No. This is clear and unmistakable evidence of the lengths that Christian and Muslim fundamentalists are willing to go in order to deny the reality of evolution.

The *evidence* for evolution lies in *every* single fact known regarding biology.

The *evidence* for evolution is presented in 150 years of methodical, painstaking research published by scientists...

not in a minute and a half YouTube video.

But, thanks for playing.

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

@19Lion8

"Sorry darwinists, evolution is a theory."

Aerodynamics is also a theory.

Remember that next time you board an airplane.

"A false theory at that."

No it's not.

No one cares what your Imams and clerics have told you to, unquestioningly, believe, on penalty of eternal damnation and blah blah blah blah...

[blowbackinevitable]

I am shocked 1561 people watched this bull

God is real .

He will not be mocked

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

@blowbackinevitable

I am shocked that you somehow were able to think that 'God' was ever even mentioned in this video.

I count the number of times the word 'God' is used as precisely the same number of times that the word 'orange' is used.

[intelligentfalling]

this vid makes me smiles. Awesome song! whats the nam?

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

=)

That's "Whatever Get's You Through The Night", by John Lennon.

[kris01987]

And to think I USED to be one of them.

I "saw the light" very recently, Just a month ago, I was a Creatonist. -- I'm still recovering.

[urinavel]

I love how this is put together! loveit!

[gregrutz]

@clawedification All Humans are apes.

The Hominidae ( anglicized hominids, also known as GREAT APES), as the term is used here, form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees (Pan), gorillas (Gorilla), humans (Homo), and orangutans (Pongo).

And chickens are dinosaurs so yes chickens hatch from dinosaur eggs.

[clawedification]

@gregrutz Natural selection is the opposite point of your argument isn't this part of how it all works in your narrow view? Oh yeah I forgot for a minute , you must be one of those guys/girls or both that think a chicken hatched from a dinosaur egg. Well im glad we can see both things in nature or i might think you are crazy. Who said I was an ape, some guy with a pocket protector and a way to expensive education. You can be an ape while i remain true to my birth as human.

[gregrutz]

@clawedification Humans are classified as Apes, our ancestors will be apes too.

Evolution does not say animals must change, most have.

[falcoperegrinus82]

@blowbackinevitable Evolution has nothing to do with god or religion.

[falcoperegrinus82]

@19Lion8 Wow, seriously dude, read a fucking book!

[kereng5]

@clawedification

"there is no skull found that isn't classified as ape or human"

Some skulls (e.g. KNM-ER 1470) are classified as ape by some creationists and as human by others.

[clawedification]

Ok lets see the genetic links in the fossils you stated are obviously transitional.This all boils down to speculation.Wait a minute there is no skull found that isn't classified as ape or human,falsehoods are found in your little video.Instead of looking at the dead wouldn't it be easy to show a genetic mutation that increases the information in the genome in a living fossil? what I mean by this is there are hundreds of animals and thousands of insects that have not changed in the record.

[Dunnization]

@SpeakerForrTheDead

I know God exists because of how evident he has shown himself in my life. Although, I can't really deny evolution but there are Biologists who are creationists and accept evolution as the course God took to make humans, and there are Biologists who are atheists who deny evolution and one says this and another that. I know God exists is the difference, and there are falsehoods about evolution but also truths. I guess it's whatever.