Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
I don't think you understand just how ironic you are there with that quote of Heinlein.
Heinlein was okay. I liked some of the novels from A. Clarke and Asimov better.
I think the point he is making is that these supposed transitional fossils held out as 'evidence that fills the gap' really strains the credulity. These fossil are about as much as a transitional as the Coelacanth was once touted to be. In other words the Gogonasus fish.., yes it is still a fish, and a vast vast distance from what it was supposedly evolving towards in areas physiology and skeletal structures, not to mention all other areas of comparison.
Coelacanth
Frog
Salamander
W.
In other words the Gogonasus fish.., yes it is still a fish, and a vast vast distance from what it was supposedly evolving towards in areas physiology and skeletal structures, not to mention all other areas of comparison. Haven't you learned anything from these threads, yet? Evolution doesn't move 'towards' specific goals. Do you even know where Coelecanths fit it the evolutionary tree? Are you aware that lobe-finned fishes are still considered a likely early offshoot of the evolution between fishes and this first land amphibian?
Hint: before you can be considered competent to criticize the conclusions of PhD's, you should first learn as much as someone with a GED should know on the subject. Believe me, I'm not saying this in any sort of defensive posture; I genuinely feel embarrassed for you (and others like you).
You (and many others here) might want to read the definition of crank very carefully, and then take a long, hard introspective look at yourself before deciding what to say the next time you post on a science thread.