Forget "missing links". it's "missing continuum"

how would you show a continuum
by showing more and more missing links

"why would any one form of an organism persist longer than any other"
can you elaborate?

@Flat Earth PhD

if animals are constantly and slowly evolving, we should see a continuum of these animals in the fossil record. we should see evidence of the gradual changes. why would we not? as soon as one small "mutation" gives an organism a competitive advantage, then we should find examples of that small change because they supposedly outcompeted the previous one. and for every subsequent small change.

but instead we find distinct animals and have to search for "missing links" . why would those distinct animals be in such abundance relative to the small changes that led up to them and took them to the next "advancement"?

doesn't make sense logically

we find missing link
***Look there are 2 gaps***

there should not be links. there should be a continuum

How small does the difrence have to be to show a continioum

What would a continioum look like

if a small difference gave enough advantage to outcompete the previous one then we should see it

we should see the evidence of every single small step. why wouldn't we?

if it was an advantage then those animals would have thrived over the previous ones right?

because we don't have all fossils and not all lifeforms get fossilised

that's what defines it as an advantage as per "natural selection"

why would a small change impact how something gets fossilized??!?!

esp since we have completely different animals on either side that got fossilized

I didn't mention the small change being relevant to how.it gets fossilised

but if it's a gradual change over long periods of time then no one organism should exist in greater numbers than another

so statistically we should see the same in the fossil record

I don't understand what you are arguing

why do we find distinct organisms?

how distinct

turtles look like turtles

And?

why do we only find turtles and not all the modified turtles leading up to and past those turtles

Are you arguing that there should only be one living species at a time?

no but if a gradual change is improving an organism we should find evidence of each change because it obviously gave the organism an advantage

ergo a continuum in the fossil record

we do

we don't

stop lying

how so

I'm not

show me the gradual continuum that lead up to and past the turtle in the fossil record

Ok

LMAO

First, these are drawings