[atlaw]

The record is redundant with fully formed non-emerging species.

What would a "partially formed emerging species" look like?

[MrB]

The argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy is committed whenever it is argued that a proposition is true simply on the basis that it has not been proven false, or that it is false because it has not been proven true.

Someone earlier was trying to state that the scientific method states that a hypothesis (evolution) is true since a counter-example wasn’t provided. I didn’t think that sounded logical, so I found some proof in the study of logical fallacies.

This is argumentum ad ignorantiam - argument from ignorance.

[tongass kid]

Good question, I don't know. If you read the prior post the “emerging species” is the language of the other post person. It is my attempt to move him from that to a more descriptive phase such as “transitional”. The point is that Darwin hypothesized that we would eventually fill in the gaps in the fossil record. It just has not happened. I believe that Darwin was an honest man and did the best with what he had. The problem is he had very little to work with and I believe if he had todays information his hypothesis may be notably different.