[MeanWestTexan]

Devil must have put transitional fossils in the ground again to confuse everyone. (Sarcasm)

[Aquinasfan]

Devil must have put transitional fossils in the ground again to confuse everyone.

Like the Archaeopteryx, it's ambiguous data. Is it a transitional creature or a fully formed and functional creature? The problem with the fossil record is that it typically shows species entering into and disappearing from the fossil record without change. Stasis is the norm. In fact, scientists are hard pressed to find one convincing transitional fossil, when the fossil record should exhibit nothing but transitional fossils.

[sauropod]

review later

[MEGoody]

"Caught in the act of evolution"

LOL This phrase cracks me up. How can one 'catch' something in the act of evolution if evolution is about small changes at the DNA level over long periods of time?

[Terriergal]

Define Transitional. You mean, like duckbilled platypus transitional forms?

Caught in the act of evolution

BWWWAAAAHAhAHAAAAA!!! Oops... gotta go wipe off my keyboard...

[RobRoy]

This article is basically a few tiny "facts" surrounded by a mountain of speculation and assumption. Interesting reading, but intellectually disingenuous.

"They're trying to find themself an audience. Their deductions need applause" - Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

[aruanan]

Caught in the act of evolution, the odd-looking, feathered dinosaur was becoming more vegetarian, moving away from its meat-eating ancestors.

It had the built-for-speed legs of meat-eaters, but was developing the bigger belly of plant-eaters. It had already lost the serrated teeth needed for tearing flesh. Those were replaced with the smaller, duller vegetarian variety.

Devil must have put transitional fossils in the ground again to confuse everyone. (Sarcasm)

Sounds as though you've never heard of "begging the question." "Transitional" is a value judgment based on prior assumptions. Funny that you should overlook such a glaring example afforded by the quote above (emphasis added).

[Smokin' Joe]

Caught in the act of evolution, the odd-looking, feathered dinosaur was becoming more vegetarian, moving away from its meat-eating ancestors.

My problem with this is that it is stated in such a way as to imply that this individual, now fossilized, was somehow throught the sentinent desire to change, in the process of altering its diet and morphology to become a member of a new species.

WHile changes may be able to occur through natural selection in a population causing an overall change in the genetic character of the surviving breeding population, INDIVIDUAL organisms do not evolve.

The writer's statements invite attack for the ridiculous oversimplification of a complex set of interrealtionships and responses to environmental and other stimuli, which, while it may or may not exist as fact is certainly more plausible than the paleontological equivalent of stating that Pamela Andersons' daughters would have large chests because she got a boob job.