What would a transitional fossil look like?

I'm not going to address your usual false statements unless it is clear that yours are going to be the ones to address and a whole pile-on of other crap plus attempts to answer me doesn't just follow and make similar demands. As I said, I "GENUINELY BELIEVE" what I said, and your flatly contradicting that does not deserve a response.

As I said, take my definition or shut up.

Very little that deserves a serious response. So bye for now.

I have mine, it's a historically valid definition. You all have the Rationalist anti-supernatural definition. There is no way we are going to agree and no way I'm giving in or you are giving in.Therefore this needs to be considered an impasse and the topic brought to an end. Agree to disagree or just stop talking about it.

You are misusing the terms I use. Dogs are a species, cats are a species, chimps are a species, human beings are a species, trilobites are a species, etc etc etc. You do not get to use my terms to establish your own definitions and impute them to me.

No, crosses have no power, that would be superstition. Also prayer has no power in itself but God's answers do.
----------------------------------------------------------------------At least you said a few things that address the question of how to get from species to species: Unfortunately this is on the same level as the answer that "microevolution just continues for millions of years."It's an assertion of what is really no more than belief or faith, there is no substance to it. You are not saying HOW this is possible, trying to imagine just what changes mutation needs to bring about to make the change from chimp hand to human hand. Its proportion in relation to the body has to change, so does the size of fingers in relation to thumb have to change, so does the skin covering have to change etc etc etc. None of the human hand is in the chimp genome: that genome always produces a chimp hand. Something drastic has to change to make the chimp genome do something new. What mutations would do that and what makes you think they would happen anyway? Why wouldn't mutations add a few fingers or subtract a few or turn the fur into scales or whatnot? If you kept getting mutational trials of that sort they could last for millions of years and never produce a human hand.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I don't care what you've "seen," the definitions I gave are my definitions.As usual this "discussion" has become a farce. Nevertheless for a while I will resist the impulse to leave this popstand and go on Inactive because the stupidities and misrepresentations do keep temping me back.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Calling a person insane, "off her rocker," for holding the standard Protestant belief really ought to be cause for suspension from the forum on the basis of disrespecting another's "sincerely held belief." I know of course that the Rules are no longer prosecuted, so I'll have to content myself with pointing out the infraction myself. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

No I'm not dictating what definitions get to be used, I'm saying the whole discussion needs to be suspended and NO definitions used. And if you continue with your nitpicky arguments you aren't getting an answer.

Possibly, I don't know. I'd have to spend time looking at them as I did with the trilobites.

They are identifying mere varieties as species. Body plan is what defines trilobites as a species all together. They do complicated things with their spines but it's all of a sort that the genome itself would govern, not a new species.As for chimps etc I already said why I consider their body builds to be too different from the human. And the question is still on the table how you get from the gemetic basis fpr chimp characteristics, i.e. the chimp genome that makes chimps and only chimps and nothing but chimps -- how you get from that to anything that isn't a chimp, by mutations or any other means. Mutations are only going to vary the gene they change, how is that going to get you from chimp to anything else? Are you imagining transitional phases? Where might we find any of those?Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I'd rather experience the calming sense of justice of seeing you suspended.

Normal alleles are enough to distinguish one genome from another. Mutations just muddy things up. If they do anything viable at all they change an existing allele which affects a single gene that is part of the genome of the species, they don't do anything at all to introduce anything new to the genome that could ever begin the process of producing a completely new species. Think of how many things would have to be changed by your mutations even if they did change such basic things, and don't forget to take into account that most of the changes are not going to be beneficial and many will be deleterious, and somebody here recently pointed out that mutations to HOX genes that govern basic structure tend to produce monsters. The whole theory is just impossible.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Tell ya what. I don't know if I'll go on Inactive but I'll leave this thread which has become such a ridiculous mess anyway. So you all can go back to your false but satisfying ToE nonsense, your false fossil evolution, your false fossil transitionals etc.Enjoy.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.