Genesis "kinds" may be Nested Hierarchies.

Actually, the tooth wasn't fabricated. So, what's your point?

And it was not the Christian Cult of Ignorance that determined that it was not a primate but rather Science.

In comparison, countless creationist claims and hoaxes that were literally refuted completely several decades ago are still being taught as Gospel to new converts.Science wants to get at the truth, so it tests its results and corrects the inevitable mistakes as quickly as possible.Creationism just wants to deceive everybody into converting to its own false theology, so it tests nothing and retains its mistakes and hoaxes for eternity.That tells us everything we need to know about creationism and its associated religion.

So you admit that fossils look transitional?

Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man were disproven by the same science that you reject. You're scoffing at the science in one breath and praising it in the next.

Both Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man live on only in the minds of creationists.These are the same creationists who believe if they can discredit Darwin in some way that will discredit his theory over 150 years later.

A cat fossil and a dog fossil could be imagined as transitional. Nothing to do with reality, however.

In the way of an exercise, could a flying pig be fitted into a nested hierarchy?

You mean a pig with four legs but with two extra limbs growing somewhere out of its back that are wings? No. Same answer for griffins, minotaurs, dragons, cyclops, etc.--Percy

"Show us your best evidence for creation and/or a young earth.""Nebraska man and Piltdown man were hoaxes.":blink:HBD

Do please explain to us how that could ever be possible.IOW, please present us with the possible nested hierarchy.

You don't know what "transitional" means, do you?

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TRANSITIONAL: marked by transition : involving, providing, or consisting of a passage, movement, or change from one state, condition, subject, place, etc., to another

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TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL: a fossil that exhibits characteristics of both ancestral and derived forms

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Since cats and dogs are both modern species, they cannot have characteristics of a derived form, they ARE the derived form. Of course, you could chose an actual transitional fossil and explain why that specimen does not have characteristics of both the proposed ancestral and derived forms. But you are not really able to do that are you? So you just stick to spouting irrelevant silliness.HBD

You are the one who claims that the nested hierarchy is imaginary and any animal could be forced into a nested hierarchy by ambitious scientists. So how about you tell us where you imagine a pig with four legs and wings would fit into a nested hierarchy. There should be several places where it would fit just fine if your assertion that nested hierarchies are imaginary is correct.ABE: Here's your chance to support your statement above. /ABEWhere would you put a flying pig in the "tree of life"?HBDEdited by herebedragons, : No reason given.

And they will be intermediates (transitionals) to future forms.Every individual fossil or being is intermediate between ancestor and progeny/descendant forms except those that are without progeny and the last of a population going extinct.Enjoy

A cat fossil would have ancestors and be part of a breeding population that produced offspring.Therefore that cat fossil would be intermediate (another term for transitional) between the ancestral population and the descendant population.Likewise, a dog fossil would have ancestors and be part of a breeding population that produced offspring.Therefore that dog fossil would be intermediate (another term for transitional) between the ancestral population and the descendant population.By definition of what an intermediate is by evolution science, no imagination required.

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Transitional forms

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Fossils or organisms that show the intermediate states between an ancestral form and that of its descendants are referred to as transitional forms. There are numerous examples of transitional forms in the fossil record, providing an abundance of evidence for change over time.

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Pakicetus (below left), is described as an early ancestor to modern whales. Although pakicetids were land mammals, it is clear that they are related to whales and dolphins based on a number of specializations of the ear, relating to hearing. The skull shown here displays nostrils at the front of the skull.

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A skull of the gray whale that roams the seas today (below right) has its nostrils placed at the top of its skull. It would appear from these two specimens that the position of the nostril has changed over time and thus we would expect to see intermediate forms.

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Note that the nostril placement in Aetiocetus is intermediate between the ancestral form Pakicetus and the modern gray whale an excellent example of a transitional form in the fossil record!

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So here we have another teachable moment brought to you by Dredge. Amusing how reality keeps banging you in the shins as you stumble in the dark realm of ignorance.Enjoy