So far at least 3 evolutionists on this thread have claimed that 99 percent of species have gone extinct. One even claimed that this is the reason that they were “convinced” of evolution.
I asked “What is the direct evidence for this claim”
It’s very clear what I was specifically referring to.
I stated it multiple times.
I did NOT ask “What do evolutionists claim about mass extinctions, Permian extinctions etc. (Cofty kept posting evolutionist claims about this).
I then specifically asked Cofty:
“Why don’t you tell us the estimated number of living species and the number of extant fossil species? Then, if the number of extant fossil species is not 99 times the number of living species, please explain how the 99 % figure is obtained. Or just admit that you don’t know how it is obtained.”
His response post NEVER gave the number of fossil species.
Maybe because it’s embarrassing to his case (as it’s only commonly cited as 250,000).
So let’s say for simplicity sake that there are 5 million living species.
In order for there to have been a “99 percent” extinction rate, then 495 million species would have had to have gone extinct.
Yet the number of fossil species is only 1/4 of 1 million.
Which means that evolutionists are claiming almost 2,000 extinct species for each known fossil species!
(Not a population of 2,000 of each species, - but 2,000 additional species per each known fossil species!).
“99.9” percent extinction rate would be a whopping 20,000 claimed extinct species for EACH KNOWN fossil species.
So as I said before, If the number of extant fossil species is not 99 times the number of living species please explain how the 99% figure is obtained.?
Or just admit you don’t know how it’s obtained.