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Originally Posted by R3B3LCAUSE  A 2009 study I heard about said that 5% (about 100,000) of scientists do not except the theory of evolution. |
An unsourced claim. Nice. And it's not even anything that you've actually seen for yourself. Hearsay of hearsay. Very credible.
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Originally Posted by R3B3LCAUSE I am talking about a direct transition, something to fill the gaps. Why can we find multiple fossils of Hyracotherium and Orohippus but nothing between? That fact that we can define them so distinctly means that there is a gap between them, why was nothing in this gap preserved? |
You obviously don't understand how fossils work. The formation of fossils is a very rare occurrence, simply due to the fact that most carcasses
get eaten. And once a set of remains
does fossilize, it still has to actually survive to the present, and that usually means staying buried, which means no tectonic activity, erosion, or a host of other possible factors. Even then, we still have to
find it. Sometimes the conditions in a particular area are just right for the preservation and eventual discovery of fossils, and that's why we find a bunch. Most of the time, though, not so much.