then logically, what you're suggesting is that they just magically went from one form to another in a fairly small number of generations. (One?)

Essentially yes, that is exactly what I am suggesting. Just as one actual number leads directly to another actual number, without the need of any transitional non-number, one organism leads directly to another organism without any transitional non-organism.

By transitional forms, we mean intermediate forms of life appearing in the fossil record that are "in-between" existing types of organisms found today or in the past.

Please explain to me how an "in-between" form of life is different from an existing organism found today or in the past. It sounds like they've defined a "transitional form" as some kind of non-organism, that would necessarily exist in the middle of a lineage of actual organisms.

If you find that to be a logical argument, then I submit to you that numbers aren't sequential, as evidence by the fact that there are no "transitional numbers", by which I mean intermediate forms of numbers that appear "in-between" existing numbers.

Of course it is... Because the thery cannot account for the huge hole in the fossil records.

Okay, you do realize that there is no gaping hole in the fossil record of human ancestry, right?

You do realize that the very concept of a "missing link" is foreign to evolution theory, right?

Of course it is... Because the thery cannot account for the huge hole in the fossil records. Making such a part of the theory would be counter-productive in terms of getting the theory adopted.

Ya know bit, a guy who really had confidence in his ability to take care of business would have probably have just let this one slide :)

Someone so confident would never have braoched the subject in the first place.

To the rest; I'd urge reading Dan Calabrese's response.

I'd also wonder if MacDonald, or for that matter, any of the rest of you, have ever read Cardinal Newman's 1852 Irish lectures on what constitutes a gentleman... or in this context, one presumes, gentlewoman:

If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honors the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them. He is a friend of religious toleration, and that, not only because his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness and effeminacy of feeling, which is the attendant on civilization.

No, Anjin.. the word generally used is not 'good', but 'fabulous'. It's a method of staying married for the 20 years I've been so.

Ya know bit, a guy who really had confidence in his ability to take care of business would have probably have just let this one slide :)

Refer back to the earliest fossil records we have, and note that the missing link is still... well... missing.

You do realize that the very concept of a "missing link" is foreign to evolution theory, right? I mean, it makes for good anti-science fodder, and second rate sci-fi movies, but it's not a scientific concept in any respect.

Ah yes, but if that is true then the way we are now isn't necessarily how we were when we were created. So then, Bithead, how did man look when he was created?

Refer back to the earliest fossil records we have, and note that the missing link is still... well... missing.

On the other hand, there IS Anjin...

Something bit has never heard during sex:
"Oh _______ that was good!"

... so perhaps the reason the link has been missing is it's still with us.

No, Anjin.. the word generally used is not 'good', but 'fabulous'. It's a method of staying married for the 20 years I've been so.

Ultimately a reprieve from death is just another occasion to recall that one day we will stand before a holy God who demands holiness in us. That holiness of character is impossible to fulfill apart from our union with Jesus Christ, having faith in His sacrifice for our sins on the cross.

And that will serve people well, to have to have that belief. Because we know not from where it will come or when it will come.

You never know when your time is up, so now is a good a time as any to repent of your sins, trust in Jesus to save you, and start living your life with Him as your Lord.

What, if now, ten seconds before the plane crashes is a good time to repent your sins, pray for forgiveness; are you afforded the same destiny as life-long believers?

I have seem life-long believers, who unbeknown to them, have violated almost every tenant of their religion. I have seem life-long dis-believers who drop to their knees and pray when the "Tiger looks them in the Eye."

As far as this is concerned; I stay firmly planted in the middle. I don't get offended by the beliefs of either side.
People on both sides have often asked me,"Why do you believe in nothing, that no belief at all?'

My "belief" is that I "believe" I am just not smart enough to figure it all out.

Who's right, who's wrong, damn if I can say so

Ultimately a reprieve from death is just another occasion to recall that one day we will stand before a holy God who demands holiness in us. That holiness of character is impossible to fulfill apart from our union with Jesus Christ, having faith in His sacrifice for our sins on the cross.

You never know when your time is up, so now is a good a time as any to repent of your sins, trust in Jesus to save you, and start living your life with Him as your Lord.

If God chooses to intervene...

That begs the question, really. By "choosing not to intervene" God is actively allowing the event to happen. Why allow one plane to crash and not another? You are answering that with, "If God chooses to intervene..." That makes no sense.

Eneils, you and I never agree,

And that is OK.
The World would be a dreadfully boring place if everyone agreed with one another.

The world world would stop spinning without opposing forces, and so would our brains.