The point is that seals intermediate limb is not a fully terrestrial or fully aquatic limb, and yet they are perfectly adapted to their lifestyle as not fully terrestrial or fully aquatic.
So the argument that a multi purpose limb would be useless for either is bunk, as thousands of seals can tell you.
Can you evos do nothing more than create strawmnen to knock down to try to make yourselves look good or educated or whatever, to others?
Sheesh.
Nobody was talking about a *multi-purpose* limb. We were discussing transitional limbs which is not necessarily the same thing. Man's limbs are multi-purpose. Most creatures have limbs that are multi-purpose. Big deal. Multi-purpose does not mean transitional by default.
Nobody said anything about transitional limbs being useless either and yet you keep harping on that as if someone stated it. No one brought it up but you.
I said that a transitional limb does not function as well as a fully formed one for the purposes it's used for. A transitional flipper/limb isn't as useful for walking and running as a fully formed leg nor would it be as useful for swimming as a fully formed flipper. Watching seals lurch along on the ice demonstrates that.
Well no, and you're not living on shelf ice out-running polar bears to survive either. Which also has nothing to do with the price of eggs in China too.
The point is that seals intermediate limb is not a fully...
NO, the POINT is there's no evidence to suggest it's an intermediate limb other than your sheer conjecture!
The only thing "useless" is your strawmen arguments allmendream.