Do transitional organisms like flying lizards, flying squirrels, and ocean dwelling mammals prove evolution?

Theories in general cannot be ';proved,'; but they can be supported. A theory is an explanation for phenomena that are known. As more information comes in, the theory may have to be changed. The best theory is the one that gives the simplest natural explanation for the observed facts.


So, they don't prove Evolution in the strict sense. In order to prove something scientifically, you have to be able to replicate the results in multiple trials, and this isn't possible with evolution.


Evolution is a theory supported (not proved) by many observations. It is the simplest non-supernatural explanation for the way things are; therefore it is a good theory. If evidence is found that contradicts the theory as it is now understood, the theory will have to be changed.


I don't think the animals you mention are really in transition, they have just adapted to a certain niche. This supports the theory of evolution, or at least doesn't contradict it.Do transitional organisms like flying lizards, flying squirrels, and ocean dwelling mammals prove evolution?
Well, in reality every species is a transitional organism. So, yes, those are transitional organisms. And those are evidence for evolution.Do transitional organisms like flying lizards, flying squirrels, and ocean dwelling mammals prove evolution?
Yes.
No. Evolution is proven fact, but neither the presence nor absence of such things bears on the issue. This arises for a number of reasons:


- Living things don't necessarily die in places where they may become fossilized, or where it is convenient for paleontologists to discover the remains.


- Genetic information is stored in digital, not analog, form. This means that a one-bit change in the genetic code will have some minimum effect on the descendants, but there is no maximum: a one bit change may activate all or part of an intron, or de-activate all or part of an exon, causing a change which is arbitrarily large. Hence, a supposedly missing ';transitional form'; may simply have never existed.
Yes. But most transition forms that theists say there should be do not and have not existed. There are some transitional forms of animals and humans. It takes millions of years. Each one of us IS a transitional form. We are each a mutation, we are not like our father or mother, we are a combination. It is often claimed that you do not see transitions within a species. This isn't true, it again takes millions of years. We are only this year's model of humanity.

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