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A transition would be fossils of the same creature at various stages of it's evolution.
Now your being silly. The same creature cannot have stages in its evolution - creatures die and leave offspring. Creatures do not evolve, populations do.
But perhaps you meant you want to see fossils of the same species at various stages of its evolution. That is impossible, because at different stages in its evolution it becomes a different species.
But perhaps you meant you want to see various stages in the evolution of a single lineage. You have been shown that - but you insist on calling the different stages discrete examples.
It just isn't clear what you are demanding - I suspect that you aren't sure what the theory of evolution says, and so you don't understand what it is we should be able to see.
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This does not show 'the same creature' transitioning... it shows a continuum of discreet creatures which happen to have similar features which were created for a continuum of possible environments.
You miss the point of the fossil sequence. Each of these fossils fit "in between" mammals and reptiles. They have a mixture of reptile features, and a mixture of mammal features. As the time progresses, we see, in these fossils, the reptile feature decrease and the mammal features increase in a consistent manner.
Continuum and discrete are opposite terms and shouldn't be used in the same sentence. Nonetheless, I think I know what you meant. The question is, why would a creator create a continuum of species that mimics evolution? Why would the creator create a continuum between mammals and reptiles? It is known that bats and primates share a
distant ancestor that other mammals don't. Do you expect to find fossils that show a continuum between these ancient tree dwelling mammals and modern bats? Evolution predicts that if fossils of bat ancestors are ever found they will fall into such a continuum.
Why didn't the creator create a continuum between birds and bats? Evolution says such a thing will never be found. That would really confuse things. Why didn't the creator create a continuum between whales and fish (one that doesn't go through terrestrial mammals)? Evolution predicts that such a thing will never be found. Why are the only continua that are discovered between distantly related taxa always between taxa that are already known to be related?