""That was accomplished through solar energy, with no intelligent designer at all."
I have to laugh at that! LOL!
I mean if the ToE says that any organism from one Class will evolve into an organism from another Class, which is not true, btw, then it must also be true that, according to the ToE, solid rock turned into solar energy.
Here's a dozen or so intermediates between reptiles and mammals.
Notice in particular how the ear bones evolved. This is recapitulated in the embryonic development of every mammal today.
Also notice that the website I linked to is a regional section of Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists; these guys make money from this stuff; think there are many ID/creationists there?
There's also the famous sequence between dinosaurs and birds. It's easy to find on-line.