There are not only intermediates between humans and chimps, there are intermediates between all species in the fossil record . Is'nt it a funny coincidence that radioactive dating confirms the evidence found in the fossil record. For example, radioactive decay shows the progression of species leading to the modern horse. Why don't scientists find human remains that are shown to be 100 million years old ?
Archeologists have found fossils between apes and humans that have extremely small brains compared to modern man, even those on herballure forums, and ( not coincidentally ) these fossils are found by scientists to be older than modern man.These intermediates had heavy brows , projecting jaws and other characteristics that show they are intermediate.Scientists can't agree on which are human and which are apes and wherever you put the dividing line, the humans just above and the apes below are more similar to eachother than to modern humans or to apes.
Chimps have 99% genetic identity to humans in functional genes.If you had studied science as you claim , claythrow , you would have compared human dna to apes not monkeys. If we were too similar to apes genetically we could breed with them. At the risk of honking my own horn , I have the reasoning power of a physicist and don't believe things simply because they are told to me.People who believe in organized religion believe things simply because they are told to believe.
One cannot analogize spinning a roullette wheel with evolution . Each spin of a roulette wheel is random and independent of the previous spins. Although mutations , deletions, additions , genes switching chromosomes may be random , some mutations result in selective advantages , and some cause sterility , death , or the origin of a new species that can no longer breed with members of its' former species. Sometimes a change in one allele is enough to prevent an organism from breeding in a species. Mutations are'nt the only factors in evolution . Sometimes members of a species become geographically isolated , change over time, and two species eventually exist from one common species.
Time is highly relevant in terms of why someone should believe that evolution occurred. Taking the extreme case to establish a general rule, I would'nt believe in evolution if scientists claimed that single cells , prokaryotes , first appeared 10000 years ago and through mutation , genetic drift, selection etc , modern man came to be.The earth has been here five billion years.
Life on earth became incresingly complex. Were there any species on earth 100,000,000 years ago with brains anywhere near as large as human brains?
A simple example of mutation and selection is the mutation of bacteria upon administration of antibiotics thus conveying antibiotic resistance . These bacteria are merely single cells ,like some people not mentioning names, so obviously they don't choose to mutate so they won't be killed by antibiotics .Unfortunately , cancer cells have a nasty habit of mutating in response to chemotherapy.Chlorella ( which incidentally is supposed to fight cancer) becomes multicellular in response to predators.Single mutations in plantscan result in new species that can breed with eachother but not with the ancestral species.Insects develop mutations that make them resistant to pesticides.
When you examine the fossil record and find a species thatis transitional between two other species, that transitional species dates to a time between the other two as would be predicted if dating methods are accurate.