" Evolution has been observed countless times in the fossil record."
It has?
You mean they have recorded proof that a certain species of animal (or plant) evolved (or changed) from one state to another?
Or is it they 'theorize' that that is what happened based upon a 'new' species emerging and an 'old' species disappearing around the same time?
Or is it they 'theorize' that that is what happened based upon a 'new' species emerging and an 'old' species disappearing around the same time?
We have never observed the creation of a new species by God either. For that theory we have only one old book of dubious provenance.
Most of the critical measurements of gravity, such as the Transit of Mercury are inferential as well. There are periods when observation is not possible, so the old Mercury could disintigrate and a new Mercury be formed while no one was looking.
Those who grasp at straws like that are too emotionally invested in their particular point of view to make rational decisions.
So9
"You mean they have recorded proof that a certain species of animal (or plant) evolved (or changed) from one state to another?"
Best evidence are ring species, named as such because they are distributed in a ring like pattern around some geographical feature (such as a mountain range).
One example are a species of salamander on the west coast of the US that surround a valley. Each salamander can interbreed with its neighbours except at the southern point where the ring joins. By then the salamanders have diverged so far genetically that they can no longer interbreed. If the intermediates didn't exist they would be classified as different species.