You state that it is “utterly false” that there are not transitional forms. Great, give me an example of a transitional form.
No. I can certainly give you plenty of examples of transitional fossils, but that isn't my responsibility here.
You made the assertion that there are no transitional fossils. You're asserting something that runs against common paleontological knowledge, so you need to demonstrate that this is an accurate statement. Take a fossil that is normally considered to be transitional by the paleontological community and deconstruct it. Demonstrate how it is not transitional.
As to me not knowing what ”Phyla’ (Hint: definition is “species, or group of animals”);-}
Well, species aren't equivalent to phyla. Moreover, your definition, "a group of animals" is broad enough to mean anything. How do you distinguish a phylum from a class, or an order, then?
Regarding time: Okay...but we don't really consider half a billion years to be
short, geologically speaking. That was what I found confusing. Yes, most of life's diversity has arisen in the last 550 or so million years, but that
isn't a short time span...even to a geologist.
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