[tpanther]

A seal escapes predators by swimming, making its legs perfectly adapted to getting to the ice and then swimming under it. Seals break things open with their teeth, and they don't need to hold their young as their young can swim and walk just fine.

Which isn't at all what we were discussing. And again not walking "just fine" if they're walking along and suddenly find themselves on the menu of a hungry polar bear out on the open ice.

We were discussing transitional forms.

An intermediate form is obviously not useless, making the idea that the transition from a full leg to a full flipper would involve a useless intermediate absolute hogwash.

Yet another strawman because this too was never implied, the entire point remains, and you're still flailing about like a seal out of water trying to get away from a polar bear, trying to convince us walking on flippers is somehow proof of evolution.

[metmom]

There’s a big difference between having a well established population where food is plentiful and predators are (relatively) scarce.

A transitional form which may be the first of it’s kind or one of only a few, doesn’t have the luxury of being able to get by like seals do.