Show one complete lineage in evolution

My mother tried to find out her geneology. She got stuck sometime in the mid-1800s and couldn't proceed any further -- there were a lot of names, but no clear relationship between them, and nothing further back in time. Oh my gosh! My mother must have been specially created!

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There are not transitional fossils between major kinds of animals and none will ever be found.

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This is false.There are plenty of examples of transitional forms. You may argue a different interpretation of the evidence if you want, but there is no denying that these fossils exist and that they fit the definition of transitional that biologist use.Furthermore, this ignores the fact that the evidence for evolution is more than just fossils; the evidence comes from a variety of independent fields of science, and is pretty conclusive when taken together. Not only do you have to argue against the transitionals that exist, but you have to argue against each and every piece of evidence in each of these other sciences.

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Hell, if you go by that 'don't mate with each other rule' then we are to assume that hundreds of years ago negroes and caucasions were different species but now they are because they mate with each other?

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I guess I'm not aware of any time when "negros and caucasions" didn't interbreed. There were laws in some countries that forbade this, but I'm not aware that even these laws succeeded in preventing it.

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If you truly are unable to properly analyze them yourself, then the best you can claim is that you personally are not sure about the evidence for "macro"evolution and can no longer claim that there is none.

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Excellent, RAZD. I have been trying for a while now to figure out a way of stating this very point.

Is Robert Byers now arguing that whales micro-evolved from land animals?

So he claims that all marsupials evolved from separate lineages, and that whale evolved from land animals. What doesn't Robert like about the theory of evolution?