1984 & A/S/K revisited

[Undeceived]

How is it a supposition when every other piece of data confirms the conclusions one might make regarding the fossils?

Like what data? When scientists date a fossil, they get outlying dates millions or sometimes hundreds of millions of years apart. They pick the date that closest matches their pre-drawn Evolutionary tree. In short, they make a presupposition.

Because you don't know what you're talking about, and apparently you also don't know what a theory is, in a scientific context. So allow me to educate you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_%28science%29

Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. There can be more than one way to explain and interpret the present facts. How do you choose? By presupposing. Creationism also explains the facts.

So? It was always going to be one or the other, you're never going to find a creature that's exactly halfway between a bird and a reptile. That's not what evolution is, because the change is always gradual.

How is this not a contradictory statement?

What makes Archaeopteryx transitional is not its classification, but the features it has in common with both dinosaurs and birds.

There are no transitional species leading to or from the Archaeopteryx. There is nothing to indicate that the Archaeopteryx is anything more than a unique bird, in the way that the platypus is unique. It stands alone, just as Creationism predicts.

You’re missing the point about finding a convincing transitional fossil. We’re not looking for features common to two classes—Creationism predicts that God would not be limited to creating organisms along strict class lines. We’re looking for two very similar but different species separated by strata. For example, one Archaeopteryx with feathers and an older Archaeopteryx with scales (of course, they would have different names).

All they mean is that tetrapod evolution could have occurred even earlier than the scientists had predicted upon finding Tikltaalik

You admit you make that statement on a presupposition. Look at the Tikltaalik’s discovery this way. Scientists, as of 2006, know exactly where to look for a transitional fossil between fish and tetrapods—no higher than the 365 mya strata. And they still haven’t found one of what should be millions.