[RogueIsland]

Punctuated evolution is a recent construct to explain the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record.

There are plenty of transitional forms in the fossil record, the ignorant rantings of the AIG crowd notwithstanding.

[William Terrell]

For life to have started in a warm pond and developing into the diversity of life we have now, the fossil record should be composed of nothing but obvious transitional forms.