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As you have seen, the fossil transitionals predicted by Darwin have turned up one by one. As you might know, a theory is a hypothesis for which its predictions have been repeatedly confirmed.
No we haven't. The missing links are still missing and you know that! We see fossils that by interpretation and agreement by like minded evolutionists are considered "transitionals" but that is opinion and not empirical science.
Much empirical science like that are paleontologogists drilling blow holes, or sanding down bone to make it fi the pre conceived idea, or a land walker with four legs being the precursor to whales.
As you learned, the family tree of organisms first discovered by Linnaeus, has been repeatedly confirmed, first by predicted transitional forms in the fossil record, and then by genetic analyses. And we know DNA confirmation works, because we can test it on organisms of known descent.
DNA can only test extant DNA. It cannot determine the relationship between a living creature and a long dead one that has no DNA- that is all interpretation and opinion.
Sorry, you've misunderstood the creationist literature. For example, one of the first creationists to admit limited common descent (John Woodmorappe) confirmed to me in an email exchange that his concept was new species, genera, and families, but not much beyond that. His opinion has been supported by the Institute for Creation Research which published his paper Noah's Ark; a Feasibility Study.
AIG:
"We know that there is a big variety of cats. They probably all came from the original kind of cat that God created on Day 6."
So let's take a look at that. So In this case, we see it extend to a suborder. The order carnivora is divided into two suborders, the Feliforma (cat kind) and the Caniforma (dog kind).
So there is that. I think Woodmorappe was more aware of the evidence that you are.
Back to your mystery e-mail again? As that thougt does not appear in any of his literature (as a matter of fact he denies evolution to the family level) Sorry but that is in admissable as empirical data. Just like your crocka duck.
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