This is not a snipe, I swear. I simply want to use an example that is almost completely parallel to biological. Consider the evolution of language. We know that all Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, etc.) all evolved from Latin. Now, look at your post.
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Why is there hardly any evidence in the fossil record of the millions & millions of complex organism with failed mutations?
Evolution brings order out of chaos, the chaos must leave behind some "mess" surely? - this "mess" being millions of recorded failed mutations within the fossil record.
Can the lack of evidence prove evolution is not a driving force in life as we see today?
An analogy of this is leaving a group of monkeys in a room with a typewriter to produce a perfect copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet through random keystrokes. You return years later and find a copy of Hamlet, but in a mess of loads of meaningless paper.
Why does the fossil record show little/no evidence of the millions of failed mutation which must have occurred for every successful one?
—cpthiltz
And let me rephrase your words to reflect the evolution of language.
Why is there hardly any evidence in history of the millions & millions of complex languages with failed changes?
Evolution of language brings order out of chaos, the chaos must leave behind some "mess" surely? - this "mess" being millions of recorded failed changes within the history book.
Can the lack of evidence prove evolution of language is not a driving force in spoken languages as we see today?
An analogy of this is leaving a group of monkeys in a room with a typewriter to produce a perfect copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet through random keystrokes. You return years later and find a copy of Hamlet, but in a mess of loads of meaningless paper.
Why does history record show little/no evidence of the millions of failed changes at new languages which must have occurred for every successful one?
Then of course I'm writing this hoping that you at least have the most basic understanding of evolution of language which, unlike biological evolution, is very observable. If you have the most rudimentary understanding of how modern languages came about, hopefully you will see the ridiculousness of your original post.
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