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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do young earth creationists cite the lack of transitional fossils as a reason to doubt evolution even though there are plenty of transitional fossils in the fossil record?

Why do so many creationists say things like "you can't even show just one transitional fossil between a human and a monkey." Is Lucy not a transitional fossil? What about Ardipithecus? Do they not know about those things or are they just pretending they don't exist? Please explain this nonsense to me.
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They don't care that they exist.  

The most important concept here is that you cannot logic someone out of a position that they did not logic their way into.  These kinds of people have an idea of what they want the fossil record to say before they even start investigating.  Then they only see evidence that supports their preexisting opinions.

While they may know of these fossils they may be discounting them for some reason, like Lucy is not really between human and monkey, or that it was fabricated in order to discredit YEC people.

But the most important thing here is that you cannot use evidence based logic to reason with these people because that kind of evidence holds no sway with them.  They did not use it when forming an opinion, after all, so why should it be enough to change their opinion.