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A real transitional species would be a fish with part of a new orgram that will not be useful for another 500 million years, like a fish with the stub of a leg sticking out of it that will be a real leg in 10 million years.

Or a species with part of a sex organ that will be a sex organ in 50 million years.

There should be many species with Frankenstein like, not yet usable characteristics that are future legs, eyes, sex organs and not the bird with some bone that looks similar to a flying dinosaur bone.

You really don't understand evolution, Do you

But this might quailify

After all, we cannot turn from a fish into a horse in one generation. It takes millions of years. How long did it take for a seahorse to become a horse?

Please tell me you are joking

Thanks for the great pictures.

You really don't understand evolution, Do you

Yes I do, maybe not at the molecular level. I know the changes are gradual over millions of years and one small change in a gene can change massive characteristics in the living creature and that mutation and natural selection and adaptation occurs.

Its just I would feel better about the theory if I knew where the first life came from. You guys start with life already there, the genome in place, and then start your theorizing, without regard to the notion that the origin of the genome might affect the theory. Ignoring that huge missing piece makes the science after that highly speculative.

That is why I see no difference in believing that a billion genomes simultaneously occurred rather than one did. Since we do not know where it came from we do not know if there was one or many.

I think man is still quite a ways away from understanding life at the genetic level and should stick to that rather than the speciation thing. I think teaching speciation is as big a waste of time as many think ID is in that it cannot really be explained except in a very general way. I also believe scientists today think they know more than they actually do. But I admint that is due to my mistrust of the 60s generation and is anecdotal in nature.

Please tell me you are joking

Ok, I was exaggerating a bit.