[Virginia-American]

... If you have some fossils from before the proto-mammal or proto-insect and some, or many, after, there should be some way of determining what characteristics it should have had, what it could have looked like.

The Fossil Record: Evolution or "Scientific Creation" by Clifford A. Cuffey. Part 5 has a fairly detailed account of the transition between reptiles and mammals.

It's interesting what can be said about proto-mammal: it had hair, suckled its young, and laid eggs. It also had 3 earbones (by definition), one lower jawbone, and other bone features mentioned in the essay. Kinda like a modern-day monotreme, (though not specialized for aquatic or ant-eating life)

Note that the website belongs to the

This is the professional society for people who prospect for oil. If YEC or creationism were true, they'd switch in a heartbeat to make more money.

[srweaver]

Processing...thanks for the info.

[Dimensio]

Am I remembering incorrectly when I say that a creationist once claimed here on FR to know of either a geologist or a geological firm that had successfully employed principles of young-earth creationism for locating sources of petrol?