[VadeRetro]

All quote-miners do the "He said it, I just quoted it" brazen. There's not an ounce of integrity in any of you. You're down to that. A creationist quote mosaic is a lying picture made with little bits of truth.

If you meant the quote the way Colin Patterson meant it in the context in which he said it, it's irrelevant to this thread. We have not been arguing about whether fossil A can ever be said with total confidence to be the direct ancestor of fossil B. (Or even fossil species A of fossil species B.)

If you meant the quote the way you appeared to mean it by waving it around on this thread, it's dishonest.

[general_re]

The correct creationist answer to the question of what this is, is "I don't know" - after all, you're not allowed to make inferences about the big picture so long as pieces are still missing...