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To: wbmstr24
"calling something a transitional fossil because the empty theory needs it, does not a transitional make.....a list of fossils is just that, a list of fossils, because your empty theory requies SOMETHING, ANYTHING to be a transition, you call them transitions...

As usual you are quite wrong.

Transitional fossils, as predicted by the SToE, must have features, preferably diagnostic, shared by the preceding and succeeding fossils. As an example, Archaeopteryx is considered a transitional not because we 'need' a transitional but because the fossils show features that both birds and dinosaurs have, features only birds have and features only dinosaurs have.

If this doesn't fit your idea of a 'transitional' then perhaps you can clarify what features a transitional should have.

116 posted on 09/22/2006 5:11:58 PM PDT by b_sharp (Objectivity? Objectivity? We don't need no stinkin' objectivity.)
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