@ the OP
Chapter four of Darwin’s book On The Origin Of Species is titled difficulties on theory. In it he discussed the features of flying squirrels and lemurs as a possible transitional form between small tree dwelling mammals and bats. He never suggests that at some point in history a squirrel gave birth to a bat. Rather he explains the changes necessary to change the form of the tree dwelling gliding mammals, themselves transitional forms, into the form of a bat.
If Darwin’s theory is correct we would expect to find within the fossil record a series of forms distributed through time that show a transition from the early mammalian form to that of bats. Indeed that is exactly what we find. Within the fossil record we have Multituberculates that are more than 150 million yo. These are followed by Volaticotherium antiquus, a squirrel sized glider at least 125 million yo. Finally we find the appearance of the earliest true bats more than 50 million years ago. These early bats were themselves a transitional form. They possessed the general body form of bats, but had yet to evolve the features necessary for echolocation.
Please defend your claims of no transitional forms in light of the fact that I have specifically addressed one of your claims of things that do not exist in the fossil record.
Chapter four of Darwin’s book On The Origin Of Species is titled difficulties on theory. In it he discussed the features of flying squirrels and lemurs as a possible transitional form between small tree dwelling mammals and bats. He never suggests that at some point in history a squirrel gave birth to a bat. Rather he explains the changes necessary to change the form of the tree dwelling gliding mammals, themselves transitional forms, into the form of a bat.
If Darwin’s theory is correct we would expect to find within the fossil record a series of forms distributed through time that show a transition from the early mammalian form to that of bats. Indeed that is exactly what we find. Within the fossil record we have Multituberculates that are more than 150 million yo. These are followed by Volaticotherium antiquus, a squirrel sized glider at least 125 million yo. Finally we find the appearance of the earliest true bats more than 50 million years ago. These early bats were themselves a transitional form. They possessed the general body form of bats, but had yet to evolve the features necessary for echolocation.
Please defend your claims of no transitional forms in light of the fact that I have specifically addressed one of your claims of things that do not exist in the fossil record.
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