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BOF wrote
Umm,aren't all living things "transitional",as evolution never stops? Does that not mean that ALL fossils are "transitional"?
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That's the entire point that creationists are missing. We are not some ultimate evolved being, as theists like to think. Yes, if we don't die out, we will be another transitional lifeform to the next stage of evolution.
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BOF wrote
PLUS: The base of the creationist argument seems to be a logical fallacy,also used by some hard atheists :.IE that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Imo It is not; no evidence implies a thing does not exist.It does not permit a valid inference.
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Except that in biology, and specifically evolutionary biology, they have been able to hypothesize what a "transitional" fossil would look like, and what features it should have, and, lo and behold, at some later time, a very similar fossil is found.
That is the scientific method at work: making predictions based on evidence, and either finding the evidence to support it, or dropping/altering the hypothesis/theory.