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I think it would be worth exploring how many possible combinations to those 17 changes to the chromosome would be survivable in nature. If we can assume that the chances of all 17 of these changes happening simultaneously is so small we should not bother using that chance to support our assumptions, we need to assume that changes built up over time: one pair turned off here, another here, three here and so on. If these changes-the intermediate steps between the one form and the other very different form-conferred a survival benefit, then we should see those forms in nature. We don't. There is the one shape, there is the other.

I am not talking about the fossil record specifically, but here alive today. Most (if not all) of the forms found in fossils can be found in some altered state today, most of the forms (if not all) today can be found as fossils. Remember we are not talking about forms that died off due to natural selection, remember, we are talking about forms that had increased survivability over their precurssors.

I can use a software program to morph a picture of my daughter into a picture of a ladybug, and produce pictures of all the intermediate steps but demonstrating that in the lab is not reality, is it.

This is where I fall off the Evo train. There is a sort of beautiful poetry to imaging that God created this one self running mechanism and set it loose to produce the results today, but there is just too much evidence that he punctuated the mechanism with interventions along the way to ignore. IMHO