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

second, you don't understand the term "continuum"

I want to see actual fossils

that show say a lizard turning into a turtle.

but only after you figure out what continuum means

an analogy: photographs everyday of the same person from birth to death

thanks

a single individual dosnt go thru evolution

doesn't matter. if a change was an "advantage" then we should have millions of them

at each step

otherwise it wasn't an advantage

that's how natural selection supposedly works

that assumes lots of individuals are fossilised

You don't understand how rare fossilization is