Evolution Must Happen, it is logical

I hope you will; now I'm insatiably curious what your questions were.

See, the funny thing is, evolution was developed by a lot of people who believed in creation by God. So something in your post doesn't add up. What I think it is is that you have this idea that atheism and evolution are the same; which is a funny thing to say when the majority of theists also believe in evolution. Exactly where we would expect to find them - fossilized in the ground, and living on the surface of the earth. They can't have both, according to you? Which is funny because a majority of American scientists do have both theory and faith in the God you describe.

There are. In fact, every single organism that has both parents and offspring is a transitional form. But they have been found. Many have been found. For instance:

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Palaechthon, Purgatorius
Cantius
Pelycodus & related species
Amphipithecus, Pondaungia
Propliopithecus, Aegyptopithecus
Proconsul africanus
Australopithecus afarensis
Cimolestes incisus & Cimolestes cerberoides
Paroodectes, Vulpavus
Hesperocyon
Ursavus elmensis
Potamotherium
Pachycynodon
Dinictis

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I could go on and on but you wouldn't be familiar with the species I'm referring to, and all I'm going is cutting and pasting from Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQI don't know where you got this idea that there are no transitional fossils. Which is certainly true. Everything continues to evolve. There are many living transitional species, like amphibians, or even the hippopotamus, clearly in a state of transition between land and water life.

The fossil history of the hippopotamus informs us that it used to be entirely landbound, like its close relative, the pig. Which is exactly what some of them did; hence, we have lizards. It happens through evolution, which is mutation and selection put together.

All species are in transition, always. Even in a population that is completely static selection-wise, genetic drift will have shaping effects on the population. All species are transitional; they the transitionals between their parents and their offspring. That would still be a transition, don't you think? For certain we can say that the hippo is a transition between the hippos of the past and the hippos of the future. When we say that it's a transition between terrestrial and aquatic forms, we're making a prediction about where it appears to be heading in the future. You could certainly be right that it could revert to terrestrialism, or maintain as a sort of land/water half-assed hybrid. It would still be a transitional between its parents and its offspring.

I appreciate the question. Like I said we make predictions about hippos based on its behavior and evolutionary history, but they aren't, of course, for certain. But thanks for the chance to clarify that.

Many types of organisms are extinct, possibly for the reason you suggest.

Same side as you, I hope - the side with the most accurate model.