There are, in fact, as many transitional fossils as there are fossils, because every species is in a constant state of transition.
Maybe I'm missing something but this doesn't seem right to me - species can go extinct without being the ancestor of a subsequent species.
Take the dinosaurs as the most obvious example. They were all transitional right up to the mass extinction at the K-T boundary. Every dinosaur species extant 65 million years ago isn't an ancestor of any species - they all dead-ended
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Even if I'm correct this is only a nit-pick and in no way detracts from your overall points to Faith.
[1]I think birds had evolved long before the K-T extinction event, so even though birds are child species of dinosaurs their ancestor species weren't still around 65 million years ago.
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