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So the argument that a multi purpose limb would be useless for either is bunk, as thousands of seals can tell you.

Can you evos do nothing more than create strawmnen to knock down to try to make yourselves look good or educated or whatever, to others?

Sheesh.

Nobody was talking about a *multi-purpose* limb. We were discussing transitional limbs which is not necessarily the same thing. Man's limbs are multi-purpose. Most creatures have limbs that are multi-purpose. Big deal. Multi-purpose does not mean transitional by default.

Nobody said anything about transitional limbs being useless either and yet you keep harping on that as if someone stated it. No one brought it up but you.

I said that a transitional limb does not function as well as a fully formed one for the purposes it's used for. A transitional flipper/limb isn't as useful for walking and running as a fully formed leg nor would it be as useful for swimming as a fully formed flipper. Watching seals lurch along on the ice demonstrates that.

OK, so when you ask a question about “what good would a partially formed limb that is transitioning from leg to flipper be?” then I deign to answer, I am the one who brought it up just to make myself look smart and create a strawman?

If such cognitive dissonance wasn't tragic it would be a rather hilarious parody.

Obviously a seal is not hampered in its survival by having an intermediate limb that is transitional between a leg and a flipper, as it uses it for both a leg and a flipper in its partially aquatic lifestyle.

So when you ask about ‘the impossibility’ of chromosomal changes for the eleventh or twelfth time (while claiming you never got an answer from an “evo”), and I point out to you AGAIN how it is just a repackaging of the same information and not a third copy or the absence of a second copy of genetic material; will I be the one who brought it up just to make myself look good or educated or whatever and creating a strawman to knock down?

No. You ask a question. You get an answer. You complain that my answer made me look smart and educated and I was just creating a strawman and then mistakenly claiming that I was the one who brought it up.

Hilarious.