Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

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If a kind or basic type of animal over a long period of time has evolved into a different kind of basic type of animal, then it is reasonable to expect a plethora of transitional forms in the fossil record. However, this is not the case, rather, the fossil record shows the original diversity of animal and plant forms.

No, it doesn't.

Evolution models of the fossil record predict the following:
- wholesale transitions in organisms over time
- primitive forms evolving into complex forms
- gradual derivation of new organisms produced transitional forms

Hey, look what you see in that link I gave above! Rev, serious question: how much research did you do before you posted this thread? What sources did you look at? Can you link to them here?

Trilobites are an example of an organism appearing suddenly in the fossil record void of any evidence of transitions. Furthermore, trilobites have an organized complexity comparable to modern day invertebrates.

Well, hold on: what does that even mean? Trilobites just "appeared suddenly?" So, there was a point at which there was the first Trilobite fossil, and before that there weren't Trilobite fossils? That's not even much of a statement, because that's true of literally anything: there weren't any of any given thing before the first one. That doesn't mean that everything burst into existence from nothing.

Besides, I don't think you understand quite how rare the formation of fossils is: they don't just happen every time an organism dies, you know. And the further back we go, the lesser the chances of us finding anything at all; to make a leap between a rare event being rare and the process it depicts being untrue is just dishonest, especially when... well, you're not exactly expecting the same level of support for creation as you are for evolution, are you?

The facts remain, fossils have been discovered to suddenly appear in the record without transition. This is what would be expected from intelligent design not macroevolution.

That's total crap, but since you didn't bother to actually present any evidence of it, it's really hard to address. Maybe bring some sources to the table next time you post, so we've got something to go off of?

Incidentally, you know what we don't see in the fossil record? Every "kind" of animal appearing all together at the same layer, as your bible depicts as happening. There ain't no rabbits in the Trilobite layer, and according to you that's what we'd expect to see, right?