What would a transitional fossil look like?

What is this theory, where can I read about it, what journal is it published in?

It's only possible for creationists to believe all these different things because none of you start with the evidence. If you start with a belief - as you all do - you can never establish whether that belief is true or not. All religionists do what you do, pick and choose the facts you like and deny all those that don't fit.So of course you all believe different things about the facts - ignorantly ignoring the actual science consensus. Meanwhile science trundles along only concerning itself with what *all* the evidence actually is.Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

Of course you do. Despite never having studied one or had the training necessary to understand what you're looking at even if you had. You haven't the slightest idea of how ignorant you are.Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

There are hundreds of scientists that have spent their entire lives researching trilobites; describing them, dating them, categorising them building on previous work and creating their evolutionary record. You come along and without reading a single scientific paper, without any scientific education or training, without touching a single fossil and without the first understanding of the subject, tell us that they're all wrong.You attempt this massive feat of hubris in all fields of scientific study from palaeontology, geology, micro-biology, genetics, radiometric dating and astronomy. All without the first clue of any of them and all without publishing a single scientific paper yourself.You're simply deluded on every level and there's no point attempting to discuss these things rationally with you. All we can hope to do is learn about your illness by observing your behaviour.

You actually said this Which is a crass and stupid thing to say which no scientist would agree with.

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Because trilobites had wide diversity and an easily fossilized exoskeleton, they left an extensive fossil record, with some 50,000 known species spanning Paleozoic time. The study of these fossils has facilitated important contributions to biostratigraphy, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and plate tectonics. Trilobites are often placed within the arthropod subphylum Schizoramia within the superclass Arachnomorpha (equivalent to the Arachnata),[7] although several alternative taxonomies are found in the literature.

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Trilobites had many lifestyles; some moved over the sea bed as predators, scavengers, or filter feeders, and some swam, feeding on plankton. Most lifestyles expected of modern marine arthropods are seen in trilobites, with the possible exception of parasitism (where scientific debate continues).[8] Some trilobites (particularly the family Olenidae) are even thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur-eating bacteria from which they derived food.

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Trilobite - WikipediaBasic, basic stuff.

Faith thinks that her 2 minute glance at photographs of half a dozen trilobites on the internet makes her educated enough to tell the world's experts that have been studying them all their lives that they're wrong. (Which she does on every subject from geology to micro-biology.)It's a necessary common trait amongst creationists; they have to believe that their opinion is as good as anyone else's otherwise they'd have to confront reality.

A trilobite with a non-trilobite body plan would not be a trilobite.That's how taxonomy works.

You've never seen a trilobite let alone classified one. You haven't the first idea what is involved in classifying a fossil - not the faintest idea how long it takes to learn how to do that kind of work. Science has classified 50,000 trilobite species. They are not the same and they show development over time.You can call them kinds or carrots or Ford Transits if you like, it has no effect on what they are and you are adding no new information - except perhaps humour. The discussion and effort has been taken. It's done. It took many years of painstaking work by many people. A religiously motivated woman looking blindly and uncomprehendingly at a computer screen is not going to add much to the work - except, as I say, humour.

That sums up your position on everything quite perfectly.

Science has identified 50,000 trilobite species. You appear to be (very) wrong again.Chimps btw, *are* a species - Pan troglodytes - and so are bonobos - Pan paniscus. They have very similar body plans so I guess they're the same species according to you?But so is Homo sapiens which according to DNA sequencing shows Pan to be our closest living relative. Same body plan, same species, according to you.

They identify physiological differences and different lifestyles.

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Trilobites had many lifestyles; some moved over the sea bed as predators, scavengers, or filter feeders, and some swam, feeding on plankton. Most lifestyles expected of modern marine arthropods are seen in trilobites, with the possible exception of parasitism (where scientific debate continues).[8] Some trilobites (particularly the family Olenidae) are even thought to have evolved a symbiotic relationship with sulfur-eating bacteria from which they derived food.[9]

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Trilobite - Wikipedia Body plans are how taxonomy works. It doesn't make everything with a body plan that falls inside a generic description a single species. Insects:

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Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms.

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Are insect one species? The genome governs the body form of every organism ever born.How about beetles? Darwin said that god had an inordinate fondness for beetles (coleoptera).

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The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently.

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Single species? The body forms are identical - head, thorax, arms, legs, thumbs etc. They do complicated things with their [arms] but it's all of a sort that the genome itself would govern That would be evolution Faith and it's been on the table for 150 years.[And, for the avoidance of doubt, chimps are modern animals. People did not evolve from chimps, but we do share the same ancestor.]Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.

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That was J. B. S. Haldane.

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I always get that wrong. Give me 6 months and I'll do it again.He seems like quite a character