[gore3000]

Proof positive you have absolutely no idea of what the real theory of evolution states. The framework predicts that mammals, and only mammals -- the warm-blooded critters with three ear bones,

It is utterly unbelievable what moronic things you say in support of your ideology! The only reason the ear-bones are necessary is that we have not yet found a mammal that does not have those ear bones. And we will never find a mammal without ear-bones because paleontologists will classify anything with 3 ear bones as a mammal and anything else as not a mammal. It has nothing to do with biology, it has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with a necessary connection between the organism of mammary glands and ear bones. All it has to do with is that bones prove very little and you folk make up false standards to make more of those bones than you are entitled to.

[Junior]

Please note, dear boy, that "three ear bones" goes hand-in-hand with differentiated dentiture, warm-bloodedness, and having a certain number of holes in one's skull. Each of these can be ascertained from skeletal remains. This combination is not shared by any other group of animals. Period. If scientists are not allowed to draw conclusions that, based on the fact that all living animals share these traits then all extinct animals with these traits are most probably mammals, then what is science to do? You seem to believe that simply because there is no living representation of a particular animal that we cannot with any certainty classify it shows a woefull lack of knowledge when it comes to basic biology, let alone evolutionary theory. You are completely ignorant of that which you purport to preach on, as anyone on these threads can see, and many have commented upon.