Missing links that never were (part I)

Pravda ^ | 05.21.2009 | Babu G. Ranganathan

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

—Like this?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyostega

Or if that’s too far developed, maybe this?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthostega

Thanks! I didn't know about those guys--I didn't know there were such clear examples of fish with feet. They're cute!

[valkyry1]

Well I didn’t mean it that way, its based on my many readings of the site and checking what they say with other sources.

[Westbrook]

> Thank you for providing us with such a clear example of
> the ad hominem fallacy.

I'm sorry, you must have mistaken me for someone else. I did not write this:

talkorigins, your source, is an evolutionist propaganda site.

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

I'm sorry, you must have mistaken me for someone else. I did not write this:

No, I know that. I only pinged you to my response because you had been pinged to the post I was responding to, and because you and I had been discussing the nature of the ad hominem fallacy.

Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what the etiquette of pinging someone should be, and I tend to err on the over- side.

[metmom]

I don't have time to pick over every point, so I'll choose two:

A true transitional link or form would be something like a fish having part fins...part feet....A lizard with half-evolved legs and wings can't run or fly away from its predators.

Evolutionary science does not predict that there would be chimeras like that.

Then what would evolutionary science predict about transitionals?

Evos have made it more than clear enough that a parent organism is not going to have radically different offsrping so the jump from legs to wings isn't going to happen overnight.

So it must have taken time for them to develop. Then what would the transitional look like? What does the ToE predict? What would we expect to find in a transitional like that and why aren't there any fossils found of other than fully formed organisms? Surely the process of fossilization doesn't favor only distinct, fully formed organisms.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

. Then what would the transitional look like? What does the ToE predict? What would we expect to find in a transitional like that and why aren't there any fossils found of other than fully formed organisms?

Did you read my later posts? Yes, it could be said that a dino-to-bird transitional would have half-evolved wings. But we only know they were half-evolved wings because we know what a fully evolved wing is. At the time, though, the animal had a fully functional feathered forearm. The point is, every organism is going to be fully formed in its time. It's just that over time, we can see it was on its way to something else.

To use the common comparison to breeding dogs: think about all the dogs in the line between the wolf and the chihuahua. They were all fully functioning dogs, but they were also transitionals.