Quote: One word: dogs.
Dogs, GC.
Dogs are a separate species from wolves.
Dogs were bred from wolves.
Dogs are an example of how one species can come from another.
And this is within relatively recent human history. That they can be bred through artificial means it can happen in nature.
This is an example of how animals can offspring varieties of animals in not millions, but hundreds of years. How does this support your case?
Quote: What do you imagine a "transitional species" would look like? How would a "transitional species" be different from a "species"? What is to stop a Creationist from playing infinite regression, where you'll keep demanding to see transitions between transitions? Say, if we find a transition between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal, would you then ask for a transition between this transition?
I would imagine a transitional form to show gradual change in species, not dramatic. There is no species that is between a horse and a giraffe. No animal or fossil that has an intermediate neck. A horse can't give birth to a giraffe so where's the transition? As for your examples, we are a little skeptical of your "transitional primitive human" forms based on history of hoaxes. Piltdown man is now an acknowlaged hoax, the only evidence for nebraska man turned out to be a pigs tooth, Ramapithecus consisted of a mere handful of teeth and jaw fragments put together incorrectly by Louis Leakey. It was actually an ape jaw. Eugene Dubois acknowledged java man was probably just a large gibbon and admitted that he withheld parts of four other bones of apes found in the same area. Neanderthal man was a man crippled with arthritis and rickets. Their fleshy portions are all imaginative. See the pattern?
Quote: I'm curious and no Creationist has ever answered this question: do you believe there's a conspiracy then?
Well conspiracy is a strong claim. Someone would need a lot of evidence to say there's conspiracy. I won't say there is but what would you consider all these hoaxes? How would you categorize them? In no other field has there been more hoaxes.
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Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem