PostmodernProph
....fully immersed....
again....there's either a first of a new species or there's no new species.....make your choice.....It's remarkable that you would choose to promote your ignorance of science with such aplomb in a public discussion forum.again....there's either a first of a new species or there's no new species.....make your choice.....You're appalling lack of a science vocabulary causes you to make these kinds of errors. Such training at your fundie madrassah would also be an issue.there's either a first of a new species or there's no new species.....make your choice.....well somebody has to give birth to the first that qualifies as a new species......and logically, the mother of the first of a new species has to be a different species......Actually, the definition I gave you is the accurate description of evolution.is that a long winded way of saying that you aren't smart enough to see the obvious?.....if something is a new species, no thing was ever that species before....if its parent was not of a different species, then its parent would have been the first of that new species instead.......
New species don't appear "like magic' which is your only reference as a YEC'ist. Speciation is a long transitional process with both successes and utter dead ends. The problem you have understanding this are the geologic time frames for speciation to occur, where your bible tales are in timescales of a few thousand years.
In the realm of the relevant sciences, such as paleontology, there are transitional species which don't conform to your naive and ignorant view of new species springing forth, fully formed.
You should attempt to understand something about evolutionary processes before promoting your science-loathing agenda.
I'd have thought that you might attempt to actually understand some pretty basic terms before arguing against what you don't understand. Had you done so, you might have noticed that "transitional" precedes the noun "species" in the term transitional species.
A.... wait for it.... here it comes... Transitional Species Is one that shares characteristics common to different lineages.
That's why it's called transitional.
Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution
A transitional fossil is one that looks like it's from an organism intermediate between two lineages, meaning it has some characteristics of lineage A, some characteristics of lineage B, and probably some characteristics part way between the two. Transitional fossils can occur between groups of any taxonomic level, such as between species, between orders, etc. Ideally, the transitional fossil should be found stratigraphically between the first occurrence of the ancestral lineage and the first occurrence of the descendent lineage, but evolution also predicts the occurrence of some fossils with transitional morphology that occur after both lineages. There's nothing in the theory of evolution which says an intermediate form (or any organism, for that matter) can have only one line of descendents, or that the intermediate form itself has to go extinct when a line of descendents evolves.