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Originally posted by bhutocracy
there are plenty of transitional forms... you have to pretty much not want to accept what you've asked for when you get lists like joe has provided... you asked for them.. you got a tiny fraction... "you can't then go.. oh well... yeah they look like transitional fossils... but... you know... theres lots of weird things out there..." and not look like you're trying to push the bar even further away after having that argument proven wrong.
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I guess that the definition of transitional is subjective. Assuming the vastness of the fossil records there is a suprising lack of "incomplete" animals making the transition from one species to another. Finding the fossil of a monkey with a large and less sloping forhead to me does not prove a theory. Neither does a bird with teeth. No more than finding a mammal that lays eggs or a bird that has wings but cannot fly prove to me that they evolved from anything. It stands as a possiblity but not a fact.