Talk:Transitional fossils are lacking

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Page locked so I can't edit this, but:

Just to name a few of the more well known examples, Archaeopteryx, Hyracotherium, and Ambulocetus are all excellent, textbook, examples of a so-called "transitional" species, which were nevertheless perfectly adapted to their own particular environments.

The word "perfectly" is too strong, I suggest "well adapted". Bunnyform 20:24, 22 September 2007 (BST)

We *do* have an example of a complete and continuous transitional fossil record. Foraminifera are tiny ocean animals that grow mineral skeletons called tests. Dying foraminifera continuously rain down on the sea floor in the accumulating sediment, and the tests are perfect fossils. Advanced ocean dilling techniques (mainly due to oil exploration) have been brining up perfectly layered sediment cores containing these microfossils by the millions. It provives unlimited supply of fossils, and you can examine the record forwards and backwards in time simply by moving up and down the sediment core a fraction of an inch at a time. The record goes back over a hundred million years. At least one complete "no gaps" transitional sequence has been put together extending 66 million years, and there are examples tracing pairs of current living species backwards in time to their common ancestor. I read much of this in a paper science magazine a long time ago, and I've seen all of this documented in bits and pieces on various websites... I'm just having trouble finding a single website that has all the info in one place.

Ruben, Nov. 13, 2007. Response 5 is actually not true. Creationwiki does not say the claim is false, and the claim is not listed under arguments not to be used. It is listed under doubtful arguments, with the comment that there are better ways to present the argument. rufrankarl@yahoo.com