Morat: You think that my questions are riddles? Ok, then that must be why you answer me in riddles?
I didn't say they were riddles. I said they were cryptic. You asked questions that were so non-specific that I was force to guess as to what you wanted to know.
If that led to me answering the wrong question, I suggest you make your questions and comments more explicit.
You keep telling me what the animal would not look like but never what it would look like. Then you throw in an analogy that is equally full of holes. If you want us to understand evolution then you need to quit telling us how wrong we are and instead tell us what is right in your educated opinion.
What do you want to know? You've seen the Archy fossil, which is a well-adapted feathered dinosaur. Flightless, but feathered. You've seen a well-adapted transition (that Nick objected to because it was soo adapted).
As for telling you what's right: I've found that it's useless giving people specific answers if they're got the fundamentals wrong. Why? Because they think the answers don't apply, because they don't understand the question.
Nick asked for a transitional. One was shown. He complained it wasn't, because it was well-adapted. His objection was totally invalid, but made because he didn't understand evolution. The answer was meaningless to him, because he didn't understand the concepts.
Yo say that the animal was always a complete specie. It was not born as a different animal than its parents. It did not change in its own lifetime. There was never an in between specie.
There were lots of inbetween species. Speciation doesn't happen in one generation (Well, it can with plants. But plants can self-fertilize, and are prone to polyploidy).
Ring species are an excellent example of how speciation works. A ring species is a species that exists in a loop, so to speak. Each grouping (sub-species) of the ring species can mate with the ones to either side of it (geographically). But the two ends of the ring cannot mate with each other.
Where did it speciate? The ends of the ring species are seperate species, but all along the ring, each group can easily mate with the sub-species next to it (and produce fertile offspring. Hence the "sub-species).
