Darwin on the Savage races

Easy:A Smooth Fossil Transition: Pelycodus

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The dashed lines show the overall trend. The species at the bottom is Pelycodus ralstoni, but at the top we find two species, Notharctus nunienus and Notharctus venticolus. The two species later became even more distinct, and the descendants of nunienus are now labeled as genus Smilodectes instead of genus Notharctus.

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As you look from bottom to top, you will see that each group has some overlap with what came before. There are no major breaks or sudden jumps. And the form of the creatures was changing steadily.

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Every fossil in that record is a transitional fossil, intermediate between generations lower in the column and generations higher in the column. The column represents relative age but the Law of Superposition. Why am I so amused that creationists just don't understand that scientific theories are never proven, and that whenever they say silly things like this, all they are demonstrating is their scientific illiteracy.Or understanding that words do not disprove or refute theory, and silly name calling just demonstrates a lack of understanding -- whether by stupidity, ignorance, delusion, confusion or willful misrepresentations doesn't matter. If we look at the continued effects of evolution over many generations, the accumulation of changes from generation to generation may become sufficient for individuals to develop combinations of traits that are observably different from the ancestral parent population. This lineal change within species is sometimes called phyletic change in species, or phyletic speciation. This is also sometimes called arbitrary speciation in that the place to draw the line between linearly evolved genealogical populations is subjective, and because the definition of species in general is tentative and sometimes arbitrary.If phyletic speciation was all that occurred, then all life would be one species, readily sharing DNA via horizontal transfer (asexual) and interbreeding (sexual) and various combinations. This is not the case, however, because there is a second process that results in multiple species and increases the diversity of life. With multiple speciation events, a pattern is formed that looks like a branching bush or tree: the tree of descent from common ancestor populations. Each branching point is a node for a clade of the parent species at the node point and all their descendants, and with multiple speciation events we see a pattern form of clades branching from parent ancestor species and nesting within larger clades branching from older parent ancestor species. This theory is tested by experiments and field observations carried out as part of the science of evolution. Not only that but the formation of nested hierarchies is confirmed by a second totally unrelated methodology, genetics and the branching hierarchy found in DNA of related species -- evidence that should not be expected if evolution were false, and evidence that reinforces morphological hierarchies and confirms the overall pattern of evolution.There is, of course, a whole lot more to the rational scientific study of evolution, and we could hardly hope to condense it down into a post or two for the necessary remedial education in this science that some people need. There are however other resources for those who want to learn (and hence countermand\correct their ignorance\confusion\delusion) ... but you have to want to learn. One good source is:An introduction to evolution - Understanding EvolutionThe process of evolution has been observed occurring in virtually every living population of species, and thus the process of evolution is a known fact of the natural world.Divergent speciation has been observed occurring, and thus the process of divergent speciation is a known fact of the natural world.The theory that these can explain the diversity of life has been extensively tested, and not one instance of any anomalies that don't fit into a pattern of nested hierarchies and relationships through common ancestor populations. Curiously a short time googling scientific websites (rather than creationist ones) will show you that there are a mountain of fossils that show evolution has occurred in the past. Here is an example of a few more than 65 million transitional fossils in just one genera:web.archive.org/web/19990203140657/gly.fsu.edu/tour/article_7.html

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EVOLUTION AT SEA COMPLETE FOSSIL RECORD FROM THE OCEAN UPHOLDS DARWIN'S GRADUALISM THEORIES
Tony Arnold and Bill Parker compiled what may be the largest, most complete set of data on the evolutionary history of any group of organisms, marine or otherwise. The two scientists amassed something that their land-based colleagues only dreamed about: An intact fossil record with no missing links.

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"It's all here--a virtually complete evolutionary record," says Arnold. "There are other good examples, but this is by far the best. We're seeing the whole picture of how this group of organisms has changed throughout most of its existence on Earth."

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Punctuated equilibrium holds that new species may arise fairly quickly (over thousands instead of millions of years) from small animal populations that somehow become isolated. Intermediate stages are too fleeting to become fixed in the fossil record--thus the conspicuous gaps or so-called missing links. (Darwin blamed the "imperfection in the geological record" for the gaps in the fossil record.)

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But in the near-perfect record exhibited by the forams studied at FSU, the highly touted Eldredge-Gould theory of punctuated equilibrium apparently doesn't work. The record reveals a robust, highly branched evolutionary tree, complete with Darwin's predicted "dead ends"--varieties that lead nowhere--and a profusion of variability in sizes and body shapes. Transitional forms between species are readily apparent, making it relatively easy to track ancestor species to their descendents. In short, the finding upholds Darwin's lifelong conviction that "nature does not proceed in leaps," but rather is a system prepetually unfolding in extreme slow motion.

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oops? Ah, I understand, you suffer from delusions ... sorry. My sympathy.

This is very confused thinking -- what is an "inter species type" ???Or are you under educated on how evolution actually works?