One of its pitfalls is explaining how one species changes to another.
There is nothing in the fossil record to show how this happens. If you believe it happens with no scientific evidence, your belief is a leap of faith.
I know that there are people who believe it happens, and can cite others that believe it happens.
They may be right, but the belief is faith based just like the people who believe the Old Testiment Prophets.
It is useful to have a leap of faith to cover what we don't understand. I do it too.
One of its pitfalls is explaining how one species changes to another.
There is nothing in the fossil record to show how this happens.
Congratulations, you're just revealing your own ignorance instead of stating actual fact. And you sort of "forgot" to mention that there is far, far more evidence for the mechanisms of speciation than just "the fossil record", including many varieties of DNA analysis, field studies, experiments, observed speciation events, etc. etc. etc.
If you believe it happens with no scientific evidence, your belief is a leap of faith.
It would be if there was actually "no scientific evidence", but contrary to your bizarre and uninformed presumption, there is vast evidence for evolution, along multiple independently cross-confirming lines, so there's no need for "a leap of faith".
Try again.
The fossils show **that** it happened. This was known in the early 1800s. There were a number of attempts to explain **how** by Lamarck, Cuvier, and other biologists. Darwin came up with the explanation that best fit the evidence known at the time, and which has made thousands of correct predictions since then.
For example, finding fossils intermediate between apes and people in Africa. Finding fossils intermediate between reptiles and mammals, or between dinosaurs and birds.
But never finding fossils intermediate between mammals and birds.
Please explain why people, chimps, gorillas, et al all have the **exact same** mutation, not found anywhere else, that prevents the synthesis of ascorbic acid.
What's the point of some designer putting "broken code" in exactly those species that were already classified together, and nowhere else? If the designer wanted us to depend on vitamin C, why include everything needed to make our own, except for one silly mutation?
Please explain the observations summarized here, esp. fig 5 without using common descent.