Far be it for me to interrupt, but I thought you mind find this quote interesting.
I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would have certainly included them....” Dr. Colin Paterson, British Museum of Natural History
Yawn. Another dishonestly out-of-context quote from an anti-evolution creationist. Plus, the sky is blue.
See: Patterson Misquoted: A Tale of Two 'Cites'
Do you guys *practice* at being dishonest?
Here's a full quote from Patterson which clearly demonstrates that you're misrepresenting his actual position concerning the existence of transitional fossils:
"In several animal and plant groups, enough fossils are known to bridge the wide gaps between existing types. In mammals, for example, the gap between horses, asses and zebras (genus Equus) and their closest living relatives, the rhinoceroses and tapirs, is filled by an extensive series of fossils extending back sixty-million years to a small animal, Hyracotherium, which can only be distinguished from the rhinoceros-tapir group by one or two horse-like details of the skull. There are many other examples of fossil 'missing links', such as Archaeopteryx, the Jurassic bird which links birds with dinosaurs (Fig. 45), and Ichthyostega, the late Devonian amphibian which links land vertebrates and the extinct choanate (having internal nostrils) fishes. . ."
-- Dr. Colin Patterson in his book "Evolution" (1978, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.).
Then you gave this citation:
I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would have certainly included them....” Dr. Colin Paterson, British Museum of Natural History
This is yet another quote ripped out of context and used to bolster an argument 180 degrees from the author's intent.