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1. I make a prediction, based on the fact that there ARE gaps in the record 2. ctd believes this means I have asserted that there is no fossil evidence of transitional species.

And exactly what are evolutionists looking for to 'fill in those gaps'?

I have another question based on your post, but I don't want to confuse you by asking you two questions in one post.

Well it would not be fair for Wolf to answer for the evolutionists and what they are looking for to 'fill in those gaps', nor does he want to. That however, is easy to see philosophically.

What is striking are the preordained conclusions they draw from such holey (holy) evidence.

But fairness (at least these threads) are not part of the evolutionist play book.

Wolf

And exactly what are evolutionists looking for to 'fill in those gaps'?

and here we have absolute proof of the fact that your reading skills are either severely defective OR dishonestly selective.
IF you could read and comprehend (or trouble yourself to be honest), you would know very well that the answer to your latest inane posturing is found in the post which kicked off this ever so illustrative dialogue. The following is that post, in its entirety, with emphasis added to the immediately relevant line, so that you cannot claim to have not seen it:

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predict future speciation? I cannot.

predict that various "gaps" in the fossil record will be filled by the discovery of currently unknown fossils, and that the morphology of those fossils will be transitional between what came before and what came after? sure. I predict that.

now, as to predictions of what we do not expect: I predict that spontaneously occurring mutation leading to single-generation saltation between high-order taxa will never occur. If it does occur, the ToE shall be substantially falsified.

as to the ToE's supposed inability to back up its claims with empirical evidence - "fossil" genes containing errors common to humans and various forms of primate strongly support the taxonomic cladogram of shared descent.

I'll let the Big Dogs explain what that means to you, and hope you will take a clue from your UserID and actually connect the dots for once.

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DO at least TRY not to need a further reiteration.