[stremba]

I am assuming nothing. Evolution predicts that fossils sharing the characteristics of reptiles and mammals should exist, and they have been found. If you knew nothing of any creatures that existed, would you have predicted this? Probably not. It also predicts that creatures with the shared characteristics of birds and mammals should never be found. So far they haven't. I assume nothing, but when a theory makes predictions and these predictions hold true, for most people, it leads to increased confidence in that theory.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Evolution predicts that fossils sharing the characteristics of reptiles and mammals should exist, and they have been found.

Predicting that certain objects sharing similar characterics will be found is science? Hardly. For evolution theory to hold water it must predict and observe the process whereby those creatures derived from one another. Please do not mistake the observation of data with the process whereby the data emerged.